Six years after being kidnapped by a cult, Jamie tries to escape the clutches of her serial killer uncle, Michael Myers.
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This film is completely underrated not only in the Halloween franchise but also in the horror genre. Michael Myers have never been more terrifying than in this film, some of the kills in this film are horrific! 8/10
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.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is the scariest sequel and yes, its way better than Halloweens 5, H20 and Resurrection.According to this film, Dr. Wynn (who made a cameo in the original) is the good old friend and colleague of Dr. Loomis has been the leader of a cult called Thorn, he's the one responsible for turning Michael Myers into an unstoppable serial killer and has been controlling Michael. This implies that Michael Myers was always "the victim" and Wynn was the real villain from the beginning..I dont think so. I know alot of fans hate this film, well I mean, they hate the theatrical cut because that version makes no sense, ok I agree, and that the producer's cut is recommended. I've seen both versions and prefer the theatrical cut. I dont care if the plot/story is messy my only concern was the Michael Myers character. The theatrical version is scary, dark, brutal, creepy and Michael Myers is a badass and a monster compared to the producer's cut. Another reason why I prefer the theatrical version is because it shows that evil cant be controlled. Michael brutally kills "his creator" Dr. Wynn and his staffs. Overall, Michael's evil still remains a mystery how it should be and I prefer it that way.The ending when it shows Michael's mask on the floor and you hear a horrified screaming, Jesus that freaked me out.
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.