Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
Watch out for the bogeyman.
Evil. Pure. Uncorrupted. Ancient.
He walks amongst us, brother. He's come back...and he's very angry. How does it feel to be damned?
During the movie Wrong Turn 3 I asked myself an honest question: Why do I continue to watch this shit? I just keep popping these dvds in the player or watch divx files of these movies and have no one else to blame but myself. I positively felt nothing for Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. I watched the Producer's Cut last year and thought it was okay. It does kind of explain some of the inconsistencies and deficiencies of the cut version shat at theaters in 1995. Guess who shelved about 5 dollars (that was how much I paid for it at that time; I could finally see R-rated movies at 17 then and I was ecstatic just to see a slasher in the theater, but it was just too bad it was this hunk of waste...) for this in the theatre--yeah, you guessed it. Me. Ugh. Watching the cut version that most will see--because the other version is hard to find--all the reminders of why I never felt a damn thing for it upon first sight reemerged. It wasn't that I just felt sick to my stomach or anything. I just felt nothing. I didn't care about a damn thing that came up on the screen. The characters are as boring and colorless (Paul Rudd's performance is a blank sheet of paper) as Michael's mask. People can bitch and gripe and whine about Rob Zombie's films, but at least the cast try. Donald Pleasence was quite worse for wear and it shows. He could barely move and talk but I loved to see him just the same. He went until he passed away with this series, and deserved a better send off. From what I can remember, the Producer's Cut gave more screen time to Pleasence. Mitch Ryan actually is in this movie as Dr. Terence Wynn, an old colleague of Pleasence's Sam Loomis, now retired and far removed from Haddonfield and Michael Myers, wanting the doc to return to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Loomis only returns to Haddonfield when Jamie Lloyd (older and now played by JC Brandy, a character that is treated like crap considering how important she was when Danielle Harris had the role in the late 80s) calls a radio show hosted by a jerk who mocks those weirdos that phone in. At least the jerk gets it like Nancy Loomis as Michael is waiting in the back of his truck ready to drop a few knife stabs in his torso.
Okay, the Strodes: Keith Bogart, the father (an absolute monster who verbally victimizes his household; he never shows a human side, a loud mouthed, vulgar, abusive bastard the entire time; when his head explodes, I laughed my ass off.), Kim Darby, the mother (always rattled and nervous, the embodiment of the long-term mistreated wife), Marianne Hagan, the older daughter with the kid (not long after we first see her, she's in bra and panties, in college and always reminded by pops about how much of a disappointment she is as a daughter), and Hagan's strange son, Devin Gardner (whose most memorable moment could be when he's holding a steak knife to Bogart's stomach after he slaps Hagan for mouthing off to him). Devin is that kid that always runs off and causes Hagan to nearly have a coronary.
Part 6 is a continuation of the "Man in Black" story from the fifth film (Revenge of Michael Myers), and further explores why Michael Myers is such an emotionless killing machine. The Druids and Thorn sign are given explanation from Paul Rudd who portrays Tommy Dole (from the first film) as a young adult obsessed with Michael Myers, cluing in Hagan onto all he knows (and has studied on-line) and how it all links to the infamous psychopath.
Most of the film is Michael killing the Strodes or anyone who visits his old house, renovated and the current residence for this family, associated with Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) to a small degree (her adopted name was Strode). Hagan has a brother who has sex with a girl and, you guessed it, soon after are snuffed out. Haddonfield had not celebrated Halloween since '89 because of Michael and Jamie Lloyd, but upon returning to the holiday, sure enough is when the masked maniac starts up the typical Jason Voorhies style killing spree (the murders are all five second pops exactly like the Friday the 13th films).
The finale does change things up a bit as the villain in black emerges, a supposed architect of a new wave of evil, Michael a part of his plans, Jamie Lloyd's child the next in line to follow Myers' footsteps, taking place at Smith's Grove instead of the Haddonfield neighborhood/town. The long pallid halls, seemingly extending forever, the screaming patients at the asylum, the endless rooms, and eventually the staff, with Hagan, Rudd, Devin, and a Lloyd's child on constant escape-mode as Michael slays a bunch of nurses and surgeons during one of those seizure-inducing strobe lights killing scenes that only encourage irritation instead of thrills.
I can't believe already spent this much time on such a forgettable slasher movie. I imagine this will fade from my mind as I move through October. This movie is lucky it has the Halloween tag applied to it or this Curse would be cursed to oblivion.
Evil. Pure. Uncorrupted. Ancient.
He walks amongst us, brother. He's come back...and he's very angry. How does it feel to be damned?
During the movie Wrong Turn 3 I asked myself an honest question: Why do I continue to watch this shit? I just keep popping these dvds in the player or watch divx files of these movies and have no one else to blame but myself. I positively felt nothing for Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. I watched the Producer's Cut last year and thought it was okay. It does kind of explain some of the inconsistencies and deficiencies of the cut version shat at theaters in 1995. Guess who shelved about 5 dollars (that was how much I paid for it at that time; I could finally see R-rated movies at 17 then and I was ecstatic just to see a slasher in the theater, but it was just too bad it was this hunk of waste...) for this in the theatre--yeah, you guessed it. Me. Ugh. Watching the cut version that most will see--because the other version is hard to find--all the reminders of why I never felt a damn thing for it upon first sight reemerged. It wasn't that I just felt sick to my stomach or anything. I just felt nothing. I didn't care about a damn thing that came up on the screen. The characters are as boring and colorless (Paul Rudd's performance is a blank sheet of paper) as Michael's mask. People can bitch and gripe and whine about Rob Zombie's films, but at least the cast try. Donald Pleasence was quite worse for wear and it shows. He could barely move and talk but I loved to see him just the same. He went until he passed away with this series, and deserved a better send off. From what I can remember, the Producer's Cut gave more screen time to Pleasence. Mitch Ryan actually is in this movie as Dr. Terence Wynn, an old colleague of Pleasence's Sam Loomis, now retired and far removed from Haddonfield and Michael Myers, wanting the doc to return to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Loomis only returns to Haddonfield when Jamie Lloyd (older and now played by JC Brandy, a character that is treated like crap considering how important she was when Danielle Harris had the role in the late 80s) calls a radio show hosted by a jerk who mocks those weirdos that phone in. At least the jerk gets it like Nancy Loomis as Michael is waiting in the back of his truck ready to drop a few knife stabs in his torso.
Okay, the Strodes: Keith Bogart, the father (an absolute monster who verbally victimizes his household; he never shows a human side, a loud mouthed, vulgar, abusive bastard the entire time; when his head explodes, I laughed my ass off.), Kim Darby, the mother (always rattled and nervous, the embodiment of the long-term mistreated wife), Marianne Hagan, the older daughter with the kid (not long after we first see her, she's in bra and panties, in college and always reminded by pops about how much of a disappointment she is as a daughter), and Hagan's strange son, Devin Gardner (whose most memorable moment could be when he's holding a steak knife to Bogart's stomach after he slaps Hagan for mouthing off to him). Devin is that kid that always runs off and causes Hagan to nearly have a coronary.
Part 6 is a continuation of the "Man in Black" story from the fifth film (Revenge of Michael Myers), and further explores why Michael Myers is such an emotionless killing machine. The Druids and Thorn sign are given explanation from Paul Rudd who portrays Tommy Dole (from the first film) as a young adult obsessed with Michael Myers, cluing in Hagan onto all he knows (and has studied on-line) and how it all links to the infamous psychopath.
Most of the film is Michael killing the Strodes or anyone who visits his old house, renovated and the current residence for this family, associated with Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) to a small degree (her adopted name was Strode). Hagan has a brother who has sex with a girl and, you guessed it, soon after are snuffed out. Haddonfield had not celebrated Halloween since '89 because of Michael and Jamie Lloyd, but upon returning to the holiday, sure enough is when the masked maniac starts up the typical Jason Voorhies style killing spree (the murders are all five second pops exactly like the Friday the 13th films).
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