Review of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) by Julian P — 05 Nov 2016

The sixth Halloween film is notorious for it's production problems, reshoots, and as being a low point for the franchise. The franchise really went downhill after Carpenter left the series (after the underrated third film that did not feature Michael Myers), but this film is a real low point.

In this sequel, Myers return to terrorize his last living relative in Haddonfield, trying to get her baby. Dumb story, no suspense, gratuitous and uncreative violence, and nothing to really recommend about this installment except that it's the final film of Donald Pleasence, who returned as Dr.

Loomis, and that the film also features Paul Rudd in his film debut (billed as Paul Stephen Rudd). There does exist a "Producers Cut" of the film that got an official release that's supposed to be better, though I'm not quite convinced.

At different times in production Peter Jackson was asked to direct and at another point Scott Spiegel was going to direct and his buddy Quentin Tarantino was going to produce. We can only imaging the film this might have been.

Alan Howarth did provide the music who worked with John Carpenter on the original film's music.