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Lynda van der Klok is a character from the Halloween film franchise and is a friend of Laurie Strode as well as a victim of Laurie's murderous brother, Michael Myers.
She appeared in both the original 1978 version of John Carpenter's Halloween played by P.J. Soles, as well as Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween where she is played by Kristina Klebe.
Biography
Halloween (1978)
Lynda van der Klok was a quirky, gum-chewing teenage student at Haddonfield High School and was a close friend of Laurie Strode and Annie Brackett. She was a member of the cheerleading squad and often expressed her discontent over learning new cheers. On October 30th, 1978, Lynda and her friends were walking home from school when Laurie commented about forgetting her chemistry book. Lynda remarked about how she always forgot her chemistry book, as well as her other school books, remarking "who needs books anyway?"
On Halloween night, an inebriated Lynda and her boyfriend Bob Simms drove to the Wallace house to meet up with Annie Brackett who was babysitting little Lindsey Wallace. They soon discovered that Annie wasn't there, and Lindsey was actually across the street at the Doyle residence. The two decided to take advantage of the opportunity and went upstairs to have sex.
After a bout of love-making, Lynda asked Bob to go out to his van to get her a beer. When he came back inside, he encountered the psychopath Michael Myers. Michael stabbed Bob through the chest, pinning him to the wall with a knife. He then placed a bed sheet over his head and put Bob's glasses over top of it. He walked upstairs into the bedroom where Lynda was waiting for him. Lynda, believing it to be Bob, flashed her breasts at him. When Michael showed no reaction, Lynda grew irate and demanded her beer. Again, Michael showed no reaction. Frustrated, Lynda got up and decided to call Laurie to see if she knew where Annie was. While she was on the telephone, Michael pulled off the bed sheet, came up behind her and strangled her with the telephone cord. He then stuffed her body inside a dumbwaiter where it was discovered a short time later by Laurie Strode.
Halloween (2007)
Lynda in the 2007 remake of Halloween.
Lynda was the best friend of Laurie Strode and Annie Brackett, although she was much closer to Laurie than she was to Annie. She was a foul-mouthed party girl, a behavioral trait that might have originated with the divorce of her parents.
Living with her father, Lynda often played the "daddy's girl" card to get out of trouble. Lynda was also a member of the high school cheerleading squad, but admittedly had a bad relationship with her coach whom she referred to in cheerleader cadence as a C-U-N-T.
An incident with the coach got Lynda a detention, and the coach telephoned her father. She thougth of herself as the hottest cheerleader Haddonfield had before she got kicked off. She was dismissed after she made a joke about doing a nude cheer towards her cheerleading coach.
On the way home from school with her friends, Laurie notices a strange man is watching them. Thinking it is just some pervert, Lynda jokingly asks him if he wants some of the young stuff and to come and get it.
Once Annie shouts that her dad is the sheriff, the masked man leaves and the girls head on home. On Halloween night, she and her boyfriend Bob Simms go off to the now vacant Myers house for a fun wild night of sex, unaware that Michael is on the balcony watching them. After sex, Bob goes outside to his van to get more beer for her.
He comes back inside dressed up as a ghost to surprise Lynda, but he is ambushed by Michael, pushed up against the wall and stabbed. Lynda, who could not hear anything because she had music on, gets her cell phone and decides to call Laurie about what Annie said to her eariler about being a slut, showing that her feelings can get hurt easily and that her bad girl attitude might be a coverup for how she really is.
After she talks to Laurie, Michael enters the room disguised as Bob, ghost costume and all. Lynda asks him for her beer, but he ignores her. Lynda keeps asking him, not knowing Bob is really Michael, but he finally puts his hand out with the beer.
She is annoyed and gets up, fully nude, grabs the beer and begins to curse at 'Bob', going on about how he is bad in bed. Michael takes off the ghost costume and begins to walk towards Lynda, who has her back to him and does not see him coming.
He quickly grabs hold of her neck and chokes her. She struggles for dear life, then runs out of air and falls down, dead.
Michael then carries her out. Later that night, Laurie discovers Lynda's naked corpse set up in front of Deborah Myers' head stone and a jack o' lantern.
She tries to help her and wake her up, not realizing she is dead. By bringing Lynda and kidnapping Laurie, Michael had done what he wanted, to bring his family back together with Lynda being a substitute for Deborah.
Two years later, Lynda's father Kyle shows up at a book signing for Dr. Loomis's new book where he shows Loomis a picture of Lynda, whom Loomis does not recongize. Kyle then brings out a gun and says he will kill Loomis for what happened to his daughter, although the situation is soon defused.