For pulse-pounding suspense and relentless thrills, nothing can match "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers" - the newest and most frightening chapter in the chilling Halloween series!  In a single horrifying night, Michael Myers' masked reign of terror changed Halloween forever!  Now, six years after he was presumed dead in a fire, Myers has returned to kill again - and this time there's no escape!  As the homicidal fury builds to a spine-tingling climax, the long hidden secrets of the screens most maniacal murderer are revealed...with shocking results!


"A long, long time ago, it was a night of great power.
When the days grew short, all across the land, huge
bonfires were lit. Oh, there was a marvelous celebration.
And they dressed up in costumes, hoping to ward off
the evil spirits. Especially the bogeyman."
                                         -Mrs. Blankenship

          The sixth Halloween film tries way too hard to be a good film. It jam packs plot, mythology, and coincidences into it until the film is ready to burst. Someone needs to tell Chappelle and Farrands that less is better. Wow! We have the brother of the father of Laurie Strode living in the Myers house, and Michael is after his sister's daughter's son, but the little boy Laurie baby-sat 17 years ago (Tommy Doyle) is here to save the day. You see where this is going? It's like this film was written, shot, and edited in Arkansas--everyone is freakin' related to a previous film somehow. Halloween 6 has more plot dependent coincidences than the entire Friday the 13th series (and that is really freakin' impressive.) Oh, and let's not forget the cued lightning which reveals Michael outside the window at just the right moment. Yeah right, I buy that . . .
          During the total 15 minutes where the film is not busy explaining something about Michael or Thorn or one of it's ungodly number of coincidences, you have stale Friday the 13th style stalking sequences or (even worse) the "good guys" doing something stupid. Someone jumps out a window for the sole purpose of making the trailer look cool and intense. But don't worry though, you'll probably be asleep by the time it happens... all the mythology crap which ruins the image of Myers is told, retold, and elaborated. Loomis explained enough about Michael in Halloween 1 & 2; we did not need a 65 minute explanation.
          Oh yeah, and Halloween 6 also has an ending which has nothing to do with the film itself. The only thing the rumored producer's cut has over the theatrical cut is the fact its ending actually goes with the film. It's just as stupid as the theatrical ending, but it does tie in with the other 70 - 80 minutes of the film. Oh yes, and the producer cut's music is far superior to the theatrical cut. I like hearing Halloween on guitar and drums, but it is not scary or haunting. The producer's cut has the real music.
          This film might be worth watching again if I found out director Joe Chappelle made a cameo to get killed by Myers. But to my knowledge, he sits safely behind the camera throughout the whole film so oh well.

            
      


          -Howard Stern was originally cast as newscaster Barry Simms. 

          -Debra and John Strode were named after John Carpenter and Debra Hill who produced the first two films of the series. 

          -If you watch closely in the credits you'll notice, "This film is dedicated in memory of Donald Pleasence." 

          -Halloween 6 was filmed on a budget of $5 million. 

          -Halloween 6 earned $8.581 million on opening weekend on 1,679 screens. 

          -The total gross for Halloween 6 was $15.126 million in the USA. 

          -Halloween 6 was released to theaters on September 29, 1995. 

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