BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

cheighlee Whoo boy, now we're cooking.So, the last movie ended with a bang, prison exploded, Myers vanished, Jamie vanished and all that thanks to mysterious cloaked stranger with some serious firepower.Fast forward few years and we get a ritual, druids, robes, tombs, hallways, satanic panic rituals, altars, curvy daggers and all that. Jamie is now giving a birth to Michael Myers baby! Deal with it. She get's deaded soon after, baby ends up with Paul Rudd in the most idiotic way possible, who by the way plays that kid Tommy, that Laurie babysits in the the original movie. There is some chick there also, who cares. Loomis is retired, Paul Rudd is a conspiracy theory whackjob.And this is when it gets crazy.That sign that we saw in the movie few times, is a sign of Thorn, "Curse of Thorn", and this cult, which mysterious stranger is a part of, wants to something, something, demon, spirit, whatever with a baby. Oh and that stranger is just some random guy, pal of Sam Loomis, I mean, the whole plot is just garbage.This movie is garbage, acting is garbage (YES, EVEN PAUL RUDD!), it's shot like garbage. From the get go, it's crappy .90's shot for TV vibe all over. It ain't scary, it's just convoluted and dumb. So, Halloween 4 through 6 is now known as a Thorn Trilogy. Also, there are two versions of this movie. Movie was so bad that they tried to salvage it by completely re-editing it with Producer's Cut, but that went even worse somehow. Sadly this is also the last movie with Donald Pleasance in it who died shortly after filming it. Because, how could he not die after this garbage.If you only saw the original Halloween and skip all in between and watched this one, you would be like "What is wrong with these people, how could they ruin it so much?".And you know what - still not the worst movie in the franchise, it's only third place for me.

tuckerconstable-07055 To say "Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers" is a jumbled up, muddy, watered down mess is an understatement. Gone is the intense claustrophobia and the merciless tension of John Carpenter's original, and instead we have a completely half baked attempt to explain Michael Myers backstory and lame, heavily edited jump scares. The film opens with Jami Lloyd from the previous two films being held captive by a cult. It's here that we find out that Jami has now birthed a child that is the last in the Myers bloodline and Michael and the cult are trying to off the baby. Why they couldn't have just gotten on with it and killed Jami is beyond me, but this is Halloween 6 logic I guess. So, Jami escapes and is then immediately chased by Myers. She leaves the baby in a bathroom sink cabinet so Myers can not find it. But it's OK, Michael just kills Jami.The next day Tommy Doyle (remember that super minor character from the first film) finds the baby in the bathroom and takes it under his wing. Doyle does some investigating and finds it's related to Myers and that Jami must have been killed. The rest of the film is just Tommy Doyle and Kara Strode (a far removed relative of Laurie's) trying to find out the origin of Michael Myers in order to stop him and the mysterious cult of Thorn.The main problem with the film is that it's a complete, incoherent mess. The subplot of Michael being a pawn for a cult makes the once terrifying killer, a poor, tragic soul under the command of a faceless cult and whenever the film tries to make sense of the plot it just digs itself deeper into a hole. Donald Pleasance returns (for the last time) as Dr. Loomis, and it's nice having him here, but he has absolutely nothing to do. Instead the film focuses way too much on Tommy Doyle, who the audience has no connection with other than he was a very minor character in the first film. The only decent parts that can be found in the film are Donald Pleasance's impassioned speeches every once in a while and occasionally the film will be creepy. But, only occasionally does it do these things. Supposedly the film went through rewrite after rewrite, resulting in a different cut of the film known as "The Producers Cut". And having seen the infamous "Producers Cut" I can say it's an improvement over the original. Donald Pleasance is not completely wasted and it does manage to be genuinely scary in places. But, it's still INCREDIBLY flawed-proving that, whichever cut you watch, "Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers" is an unsalvageable mess of a picture.

MaximumMadness The "Halloween" franchise is a strange beast indeed. Covering the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows in it's thus far ten entries and a near forty-year history. From the ground-breaking and trend-setting 1978 original from cinematic mastermind John Carpenter, through a slew of hit-and-miss sequels from a small army of fellow directors, to the most recent rebooted franchise courtesy Rob Zombie... "Halloween" is very much a franchise that has remained relevant and recognized in the public eye, even as audiences grow and change with each generation.One of the more peculiar entries in the franchise, however, is 1995's "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers"- a film that suffered a strange and turbulent production rife with writing and editing problems, and ultimately was released in a more-or-less butchered format in theaters. Many major sequences were re-written and re-shot for it's theatrical edition, and even several key plot points were completely removed and left on the cutting room floor, where they remained for nearly 20 years before the long-fabled original cut of the film (from before the re-shoots and re-edits) was finally released on Blu-Ray as the "Producer's Cut."However, I'm not going to focus exclusively on this long-fabled alternate edition, and instead am going to focus predominately on the original theatrical edition- the version of the film that was most readily available in theaters and on home media since 1995. And the theatrical version is... well, a bit of an interesting failure.It's fun and even somewhat nostalgic to revisit, and is most definitely a quirky time-capsule of its time period, feeling "oh so 90's." But it's plot is messy and clearly negatively swayed by the troubled production, the acting is mixed, and it feels very much a movie that is missing key pieces of the puzzle.Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd) must team up with his beautiful neighbor Kara (Marianne Hagan) and the troubled former psychologist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) in a desperate bid to stop the psychotic killer Michael Myers once and for all. However, revelations about Myers' past and the dark forces at play just might change the twisted game of cat-and-mouse that they are struggling to survive...To get things out of the way, there are some strengths to the film. Pleasence, in his final turn as the iconic Sam Loomis, is a joy, and is able to elevate the material he is given to work with. He's easily the best performer on-screen and he is able to make any and every sequence he's in thrilling and compelling with the class he brings to the screen. Hagan is also quite good and makes for a compelling heroine and makes for a good team with Rudd, who is portraying one of the troubled child survivors from the original movie, though I personally found Rudd so socially awkward and subdued, he's frankly boring. Which is a shame as Rudd is one of my favorite actors and he's been great fun in films like "Role Models", "Knocked-Up" and "Ant-Man."There's also some very good moments of blood-n-guts, a handful of creative kills and some suitably moody, 90's-music-video esque visuals that make it one of the more visually interesting and stylish entries of the series. It may be a bit of a jarring contrast to the slow-building and deliberate original... but it's still quite well put-together....it's just a shame the story is such a huge pile of dreck. This is one of the most disjointed, random and head-scratching films of the slasher genre. Plot points seem to crop up and disappear on a whim, there's too much reliance on convenience and coincidence (Strodes living in the old Myers house... really?), tropes and clichés run abound... And the film can't decide what to do with itself. It begins to build up a misguided but slightly amusing plot line revolving around curses and evil runes and whatnot, presumably to explain the supernatural side of Michael Myers in a pseudo-magical way, yet this is basically kinda dropped and changed-up halfway through the film... it's like they realized how silly it was and then tried to re-cut the second half to ignore this as much as possible, which is just strange and gives the viewer story-whiplash. (Surprise, surprise, this is the biggest change that was made from the original Producer's Cut, which focused much more on this side of the story.) It lends to the film feeling like two completely different scripts that accidentally got mixed together in some sort of accident.Add to that jarring pacing and tonal issues from the well-known re- shoots and re-edits, characters that are barely defined and written out haphazardly, a few scenes that are clearly thrown in for nothing but padding, and some nauseous attempts at satire (a woman on a radio show is in love with Michael... come on!), and it's just a mess."The Curse of Michael Myers" is just such a weird little flick. It's probably the worst-written film in the entire media franchise, and it's clear that the production troubles have all but ruined the original intent of the script. And that does make it hard to take seriously. But the likable performances, creative kills and stylish camera-work do make it something of an enjoyable watch... you'll laugh and wince at the proceedings. You'll just also be scoffing and rolling your eyes a lot.The theatrical edition of "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers" gets a below-average 4 out of 10. Hardcore series fans might get a kick out of it. But it's not really worth seeing for anyone else. Although I would highly recommend checking out the Producer's Cut, which is a slightly better film. Yes, it's silly with it's occult and magical elements... but at least it isn't butchered by re- shoots and bad re-editing like the theatrical edition.

Realrockerhalloween Spoilers belowWhere to start here. Halloween 6 has to be the one that suffered most. Not only was the production troubled from the beginning, but five version exist of this film containing alternate scenes due to the directors wanting different directions for the story.I'll stuck with the main two since they both have the major difference between one another. The producer's cut was the superior film that was shot. It starts off with Jamie being kidnapped and imprisoned by a cult who passes on Thorn. Thorn is a demon who desires sacrifices in exchange for prosperity. Sounds like season of the witch revisited. In fact Cockran reminds me a lot of Wynn in demeanor and goals.In the director's cut the cult is replaced by scientists who want to harbor the curse to cute diseases. How they know or even can extract it is a toss up in the air.The music for each consists of a haunting melody and a guitar rip you'd expect to hear on MTV. The director ends in mystery of Michael and Loomis. Some think he finally killed the good doctor for he encountered something much worse. A licker from resident evil perhaps? The other shows Wynn trading places with his monster.The date of Jamie Llyode is either thrashed on a corn shredder ten minutes in or lying in a hospital bed and being shot by Dr. Wynn. Why not let Michael do it is the only issue with this scene for me. I mean does Wynn have the power to have sacrifices homered and does it count?Both stories still leave a lot of unanswered questions and plot holes. Still when I think of Halloween 6 I go with the coherent story in the producer's cut. The atmosphere is wonderful, the music enchanting, characters more fleshed out and it makes a tad more sense.7/0