I dunno, I always put Michael Myers in with Jason as the "tortured antihero" kind of slasher He experiences his need to kill as internal torment, he wants to be free of ithttps://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1215885731798929409 …
Come on he's as sympathetic as Jason is - he becomes the good guy easily, you just make all the people he kills genuinely shitty and repulsive and portray it as a comeuppance They even kinda sorta did that in-universe (the blood curse on his family for some ancient sin)