Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

What to Expect

Halloween 6 starts off very, very different from every other Halloween. Instead of Michael Myers escaping some kind of captivity or a relative of his having psychic premonitions of him coming home, we're shown a woman (Jamie from part 5 all grown up) giving birth in a dingy warehouse surrounded by countless candles and cult members in creepy robes. She gives birth, the baby is whisked away to be sacrificed, some woman has second thoughts and saves the baby, mom and baby make a run for it, Myers kills the woman who saved them and Myers hunts down mom and baby. He gets into a high speed car chase and eventually runs them off the road into a giant pumpkin patch. WTF?

This of course raises attention and before long Loomis catches wind and races back to Haddonfield (again) to try and stop Myers who is also going back home (again).

Halloween 6 gives more than a few nods to the original, things such as the boy dropping the pumpkin and the sheets blowing on the clothes lines. So it feels like a Halloween movie in that way. But the style of horror took a hard left turn. Instead of slow mounting dread and creative suspense, this Halloween is all about cheap jump scares and cliche tropes.

But I get it. This Halloween came out in 1995, they couldn't exactly throw 1978 style horror at people. I mean, we're talking 17 years here, movie styles have to evolve.