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Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers

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An okay transfer of the movie on a bare-bones DVD.

Unfortunately, the makers of this disc decided NOT to include the alternate version that contains VERY interesting deleted and alternate scenes.

Check out the differneces here:

http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/h/halloween6-pcr.html

Hopefully a Special Edition of this film will be released that will feature both the Theatrical and Producer's Cut versions of this film.

Halloween The Curse Of Michael Myers is my favorite Halloween sequel, and, despite having horrible reviews, is the second best of the series (the first being part 1, of course). The movie realized that the series was getting pretty dull by part 5, so it adds a lot of new plot twists, like Michael being involved in some cult called "Thorn" that makes one person kill every member of his family. You'll also find out in this one who the Man In Black really is (I'll give you a hint, he was in ONE scene from the original).

The movie begins with Jamie Lloyd (no longer Danniele Harris, but J.C. Brandy) having a baby, which is then stolen by the man in black, who is going to make this baby Michael's sacrifice. However, a kind woman working there helps Jamie escape with her baby. This woman then meets her fate, impaled to a coat hanger by Michael Myers, who is now stronger and more enraged than ever!! Jamie does get away, and hides her baby at a bus depot, before she, to, meets her maker. Then, we go on to meet Kara Strode (Marriene Hagan) and her family. She's got a seven year old boy. She's going to college to make up for her past mistakes. Her father, John, dosn't approve of her staying at his place, where he already has two other people living, his wife, and his son, John (Bradford English). John Strode is an abusive alcoholic, who mistreats his entire family. Kara is a little bit creeped out by this man who's staring at her out his window. Well, this man happens to be Tommy Doyle (Paul Steven Rudd), who was being babysat by Laurie Strode when Myers attacked in 1978. He's a little messed up by this particular incident, and he thinks that Michael's returning. He was also listening to this particular radio show the night before, and recorded when Jamie screamed "Help Me" to the show. He tracks the area she was calling from down to the bus depot, where he finds her baby. Meanwhile, Kara is being stalked by Michael, but doesn't realize it. And, to make things worse, her little son is hearing a voice that says "Kill For Me". Who's going to survive THIS Halloween? Watch and see.

Halloween The Curse Of Michael Myers is a very underrated Halloween film. It is propably (aside from Part 3) the least popular of the series, but I can't understand why. My least favorite film is actually Part 4. This movie is great, it's scary, funny, shocking, gory, mysterious. Everything to make a perfect horror film (including suspense). Yes, it's very hard to make to much sense of it, but that's what makes it more intelligent. And there is so much gore! I know Part 1 is famous for being almost completely bloodless, but blood was needed at this point. It's definetly the most extremly graphic of the whole series. But still, it's got a plot, and a fine plot, I must say. The Myers mask is back to normal, as is his house (where the Strode family is living). The man behind the mask this time, George P. Wilbur (Michael in Part 4), is far superior to that guy, Donald Shank, who played him in the fifth one. But, then, in H2O, the man behind the mak is HORRIBLE!! And YOU CAN SEE HIS EYES!!! But in this, you can't see Michael's eyes, and he's played eerily. Nice job Mr. Wilbur!

As for this DVD, well, it's OK. No special features (aside from sneak peek trailers for H2O and the Scream Box Set), but it's presented in widescreen, and has nice, clear picture. I'm dieing to see that Producer's Cut, which is apparentally almost a different film. It'd be awesome to release a DVD with both versions on it, but for now, this one's OK. If I were you, though, I'd wait a little bit, and I'm sure they'll release the producer's cut.

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Many people say that Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers is the worst of the entire series, but I disagree. In my opinion, the worst is Halloween III. This movie originally had a very different storyline from the version that people got to see, and they were severely deprived. The version of this movie that got released was well done, with George Wilbur (Halloween 4) returning as Michael, and Donald Pleasance in his last performance as Dr. Loomis, was well performed, but not very well explained. It seemed to me that Dr. Wynn was attempting to genetically engineer people to have Michael's form of strength, but I could be way off. I also thought the idea of Michael killing his sister's 'extended' family was a clever plot twist. Many people say this is the worst because they don't take the time to really observe the story. However, I think that Dimension Films would be real smart if they released the alternate cut of this movie on video & DVD. There is a summary and pictures from this version that can be found on the Halloween website. You might want to check it out. But this movie, while somewhat vague, is an excellent piece of the story of Michael Myers.

No sequel in the Halloween series has divided fans more than part 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. You either love it or hate it, but I thought part 6 had everything a Michael Myers movie should have. It was extremely suspenseful, Michael was arguably in his scariest form, the acting was good for the most part, and it left you wanting more. When I saw H6 in the theater, I couldn't wait for the sequel to find out what happened. Unfortunately the producers decided to abandon the whole storyline from parts 4 through 6 in order for Jamie Lee to reprise her role as Lorie Strode in the teen friendly H20. So we'll never get a proper sequel.

Personally, it's one of my favorite and most watched in the series behind parts 1 and 4. I just wish we could get a blu-ray release which includes the Producer's cut. I highly recommend adding Curse to your Halloween collection.

Warning: This film contains subliminal quick shots.
Donald Pleasence returns again to play "Dr. Sam Loomis". The character of "Jamie Lloyds" is now played by J.C. Brandy.
The boy who was terrorized by "Michael" in the first "Halloween" (1978) film, the character of "Tommy Doyle" is now being played by Paul Stephen Rudd.
Jamie is now a woman and is having a baby boy in an undisclosed location. A satanic rite tries to keep the child, but a scared blonde lady tries to help Jamie escape with her baby. Michael is after Jamie again. She calls a radio station to warn Haddonfield about Michael. Tommy Doyle is also listening to the radio station. He called them earlier to warn that Michael is not finished with Haddonfield. Tommy was also being voyueristic looking through a telescopic camera lens at Kara Strode (Marianne Hagan), perhaps for her own safety. Danny Strode (Devin Gardner) is a child that can also see visions of Michael Myers.
Tommy happens to find the baby he calls "Stephen" and reconnects with Dr. Sam Loomis who he hasn't seen since that horrid Halloween night in 1978. Together they will try to kill Michael Myers and the curse of him.
Also in the cast: Mitch Ryan, Kim Darby, Bradford English, Keith Bogart, Mariah O'Brien and Janice Knickrehm.
George P. Wilbur plays "Michael Myers" again (Halloween 4).
A. Michael Lerner played "The Shape". In other words, he played "Michael Myers" in a few scenes.

Donald Pleasence died on February 2, 1995 in France from complications from heart valve replacement surgery.

The next "Halloween" films are:

Halloween H2O: 20 years later (1998) where Jamie Lee Curtis returns in her original role of "Laurie Strode" from Halloween (1978) and Halloween II (1981) and briefly in Halloween - Resurrection [VHS] (2002).
Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007)
Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009).

Update: Halloween III will be released October 26, 2012. Director is Patrick Lussier.

This is one of the best movies in the great long going series of Halloween movies. I am a BIG fan of horror movies and this movie has and will always be one of my favorite movies to watch. It goes back to Halloween 1 and Halloween 2 with that atmosphere of a truley great suspense thriller. Also having Donald Pleasence in this movie greatly made this movie better for me. Halloween is just not Halloween with out Donald Pleasence playing Dr. Sam Loomis. The Story is great, we finely know the reason behind Michael maddness. The casting was great, the person who played Michael Myers did a awesome job, and the mask was terrifying. Todays horror movies are lacking both in stories and in scares. So for a truely great scary movie and a good addition to a great horror movie series, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is a movie to be seen.

As a pre-teen, I loved the Halloween movies. Michael Myers was just such a great character for me: scary, insane, methodical and unstoppable. Nothing has really changed since then. I'm still a big fan of this franchise and always find something to like in one of these films (except for the dreadful Season of the Witch). So on that basis, the Curse of Michael Myers didn't fail to entertain or make me jump occasionally. I think it's gotten much more bad press than it deserves.

But I won't lie and say it's a perfect movie; quite the opposite. It's pretty flawed and messes with the Halloween mythos big time. So much so that once H20 came along, it decided to ignore the somewhat silly revelations in this movie (and the two that preceeded it) and stick to the basics that Halloween 1 & 2 followed. It turns out that Michael is part of a cult called "Thorn" led by a mysterious man in a black hat and coat (the same guy who walked around town with seemingly no real purpose in Halloween 5) named Wynn. Apparently, Wynn thinks he has some sort of control over Michael and tells him that he must kill his family. In other news, Michael's niece from the fourth and fifth film, Jamie, has a baby boy who the cult wants possession of so that he can either follow Michael's footsteps and become the new killer on the block or just become Michael's last victim; I'm not quite sure which one. After Jamie is killed by Uncle Mike, Tommy Doyle (the little boy from the first film) finds the baby in a bathroom at a bus terminal and takes him in. Later in the film, Tommy befriends a little boy who's family just so happens to live in Michael Myers' house.

Some of it is a little convenient and confusing, but who cares? This isn't Chinatown or the Godfather. This is Halloween! As long as the body count rises and we get to see Michael stalk helpless, horny young adults, I'm satisfied. This film also offers some pretty cool death sequences, especially the part where someone's head explodes during electrocution.

It's not the best in the series, but I think it's certainly better than the fifth one or Halloween: Resurrection. And it's light years better than Season of the Witch. Worth a rental to most; worth the price to own for me.

I like this movie. It's not that bad! Everyone says it is the worst in the series. I am not going to tell you the story line because it is very confusing. You have to watch it a few times. I will say things that were good in this movie and what were bad -

Good!
1) the man in black was finally unmasked
2) the death scenes were cool (my ex-girlfriend thinks that the gore was very high, she was right, this was the goriest one yet)
3) the story was actually complex (I was looking for a different story and I got one)
4) The acting is good (Paul Rudd, whose credits "Clueless" was very creepy as Tommy Doyle)

Bad
1) I hated the ending! After reading this, write an online review explaining the end. The ending is bad because we just hear a man screaming and we see the mask on the ground! Who was screaming? What happened to Loomis? Wynn? Myers?

That is my review! Hope you enjoyed it. Rated R for extreme violence, disturbing images, gore splattered everywhere, some harsh profanity, and brief nudity (nothing too bad, sexual-wise)

I think this was the best Halloween movie ever. It brought a good presentation of being in the 90's. It explained everything about the cult. I do wish the originally Jamie would have been cast. It was shocker to find out Wen was the man in the black trench and boots. Although it was totally different from the others, except for Donald Pleasent making seem like home to us it was still a great movie. It's to bad Dr. Loomis died of the hand sof Micheal, but more sad that Donald Pleasent died in real life. It was still the best with quite a twist.

By now, everybody knows that Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers was butchered by Dimension Films prior to release. Several scenes were cut out of the film, others were shortened and the ending was entirely (and probaby for the best) reshot. That's not to say that this theatrical cut ending is anything good...but acceptable and a little less silly than the original ending.

This sixth entry in the Halloween series has its problems to be sure, but it's also pretty scary. Picking up six years after Halloween 5, we meet up again with Jamie Lloyd who has just given birth to a child in the confines on the Thorn cult compound. Jamie escapes with her baby and Michael follows. From here on, Michael returns to Haddonfield, Dr. Loomis (the returning Donald Pleasence in his final performance) is in pursuit and the mystery of the man in black is finally revealed. The problem with this theatrical cut is that it's largely incoherent. Most of the plot seems to have been removed, several key character development scenes have been snipped and what remains, is basically, the stalk and slash carnage that Michael Myers wreaks on the family living in the Myers house.

All of this may sound like carping, but far from it, this Halloween is actually one of the scariest (right behind 1 and 4), although it never quite matches up to those superior Halloween films, this one gives the viewer plenty of spooky scenes and some undeniable suspense. Rising star Paul Rudd turns up in an early starring role as Tommy Doyle who Laurie Strode babysat for in the original film. Tommy is now obsessed with Michael and knows that he has returned. Rudd's Tommy is a great character, Paul Rudd brings a lot of charm and charisma to the role-he makes for a great screen presence, it's too bad the series wouldn't revisit this character, for he is much more interesting than the sniveling alcoholic Jamie Lee Curtis gave us in Halloween H20.

Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers is widely debated amongst Halloween fans, while it's flawed to the extreme, to deny its impact is to be ignorant. Director Joe Chappelle takes a lot of flak for this film, but he actually infuses a lot of style and suspense into the 88 minue running time. The operating room massacre scene is a highlight among the Halloween series..not to mention the cool quick cut opening. In an earlier cut of the film, Chappelle actually comes off as a much stronger director, we see lots of awesome homages to the orginal Halloween such as a scene of Michael stalking Kara as she walks home from school, and a scene of Dr. Loomis fighting with the local police. Many nice touches were abandoned in favor of a shorter film...it really is a shame.

In the hands of a more capable, competant studio, Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers may have had a better chance...the makings of a great sequel were definately there (track down the infamous H6 producers cut). As it stands, turn your brain off, turn down the lights and be ready to be scared. Michael has come back to Haddonfield to kill and Halloween will never be the same.