Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - Film Review

Halloweenthon Day 6

So are we done with the numbers now?

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is directed by Joe Chappelle, and stars Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitch Ryan, Devin Gardner, J. C. Brandy, and George P. Wilbur.

Plot
Six years after Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur) last terrorized Haddonfield, he returns there in pursuit of his niece, Jamie Lloyd (J. C. Brandy), who has escaped with her newborn child, for which Michael and a mysterious cult have sinister plans.

Review
Ok, I watched the Producer's Cut of the movie so I'll be reviewing that. I saw the theatrical version a couple years back, and a few months later I watched the Producer's Cut, and this is the first time I've watched it since, so I'm not sure what's different except for the ending.

This movie is worse than Halloween 5, and I think that this film is when it the franchise started to get dumber. The whole ancient cult thing is stupid.

For positives, I can say that the movie is paced well, it's nice to see Dr. Loomis and Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd) back, it was made non-canon by the movie after it.

It took six years to answer our questions from Halloween 5, and they suck

Remember Jamie, she dies, and she's not even played by Danielle Harris, she's played by J. C. Brandy instead. She has a baby that was born into Thorn, and in the Producer's Cut we learn that Michael is the baby's father. This is Illinois, not Alabama.

She spends a few minutes with her baby in the bathroom at a bus stop, abandons it there to hide it from it's uncle-daddy, and then gets killed by Michael in a barn.

She also drives a truck without lessons and she's like 15. I guess this kind of stuff is genetic in the Myers family.

The baby is found by Tommy Doyle, who names it Steven and tells Loomis about this family living in the Myers house, so they tell em to git outta there.

So after Kara (Marianne Hagan) and her son Danny (Devin Gardner) go to Tommy's, he tells them about an ancient curse called Thorn, and explains that a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, one child from each tribe, was chosen to bear the curse of Thorn, and sacrifice it's next of kin on the night on Samhain (which they still pronounce wrong). And apparently Tommy's landlady was babysitting Michael the night he killed Judith, but why is there no mention of her in the original Halloween? I thought Judith was watching him. Also, Danny has the power of Thorn because he hears voices telling him to kill.

So after some uninteresting stuff later (rip barry), it turns out that Dr. Wynn (Mitch Ryan), a friend of Loomis, is the Man in Black from Halloween 5 (that really subverted my expectations), and he's the leader of the Cult of Thorn, and so are several other Haddonfield residents, and they take Kara, Danny, Steven, and Michael to Smith's Grove, and Loomis confronts Wynn, who wants to control Thorn, and wants to do the whole sacrificing family thing and pass it to Danny, and Loomis isn't too happy about this, and his goons knock him out.

So they have Kara chained up, ready to be sacrificed by Michael, and then sacrifice Steven, but Tommy saves them, and to help them escape, he places some stones on the floor and writing the Thorn symbol, which stops him, and they leave, but Loomis has some "a little business" to attend to, so he goes back inside, takes off Michael's mask, but it turns out to be Wynn, who passes on Thorn to Loomis and the tattoo appears on arm, making him the new leader and he screams. This is the Producer's Cut ending, which is a lot better than the theatrical ending.

The cast, I can't think of much to say. They're all fine I guess. It's great seeing Loomis back, Donald Pleasence died before this movie came out and this was his last film role, and it's good. Even if a Halloween movie sucks, at least he is good in it.

Paul Rudd is quite good as Tommy, he's really fascinated with Michael Myers and wants to know exactly what drives Michael to kill, you can tell he's messed up by what happened all those years ago.

And everyone else is ok too.

Overall, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is not a good movie, it's the second worst of the original series, the worst is Resurrection, but we'll talk about that later. It introduces Thorn, which is kinda dumb.

I'm going to give Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers a 4.5/10

Come back tomorrow for a review of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later.

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