Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Haddonfield is ready to celebrate Halloween.... so is Michael Myers!

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Release Date: Sep 29, 1995
Rated: R | Runtime: 88 Mins | Language: English
Director: Joe Chappelle
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitchell Ryan, Kim Darby, Bradford English, Keith Bogart

Summary

Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.

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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.

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Critic Reviews:

The film is a complete mess and nothing about it makes any sense at all.

– The Twin Geeks

With the release of Curse, the franchise is dragged into the 1990’s, and the time warp is not subtle. There is a lot of cheesy slow motion as well as a bevy of sequences that feature so many music-video quick cuts that it is completely dizzying.

– Bloody Good Horror

An absolute mess of a film, the sixth instalment is pretty notorious among genre fans for the chaotic back story to the finished product, from rewrites to reshoots, abysmal test screenings to re-edits.

– Movie Ramblings