Review of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) by Bryana B — 28 Jun 2008

There are 2 versions of this film that exist. Obviously one is what was released to theaters. The other is what has become known as "The Producer's Cut". An almost entirely different movie, that begs the question "Why wasn't this released to theaters?" TPC is so superior to the theatrical cut, it isn't even funny.

TPC is only available as a bootleg, but for any fan of the Halloween series, it is the equivalent of The Holy Grail. This is a review of the TPC: Six years after disappearing, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, and his old house, to track down the baby of his niece, Jamie Lloyd.

Not only is he challenged again by Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) but he crosses paths again with Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd) who escaped his original night of terror. The method behind Michael's madness, and seemilngly inability to die are revealed here.

Director Joe Chappelle achieves a great sense of tension and dread, as we see Michael getting closer to his target, but also the remains of Laurie Strode's family, that has moved in to his old house.

Great cinematography, and extensive use of John Carpenter's musical cues, give this a true feeling of a Halloween movie. TPC contains many re-edited scenes that work extremely well vs the way the scenes were shown theatrically.

Also the movie contains a comletely different ending. Not just an ending shot, but an entirely different final 30 minutes of the film. The only reason I can think that this ending was replaced is that Donald Pleasence died before the movie was released, and they felt the need to end his story arc.

As it turns out, it was completely unneccesary as the next film in the series would abandon everything done after Halloween 2. If you are a Halloween fan, and have the means, I HIGHLY recommend you track this version of Halloween 6 down.

I give it a full one star higher rating than the theatrical version.