I really enjoyed this film and I cannot believe that in my tired state I gave it a score equal to Free Willy 3 and lower than Alien Apocalypse! No, I cannot believe it, this may be getting a revised score once I’ve finished but that is 381 movies away yet so that could be a year or two away. OH YEAH, The movie. This is mid-nineties movie following in the Halloween family this is the sixth movie in the line but the fifth to include the legend that is Michael Myers. This movie made a box office profit as it made $15m in the box office and cost around a third of that to make. It follows on from the fifth movie and see’s the return of Donald Pleasence to his role of Dr Loomis, Michaels Doctor who has been chasing him for four movies already and does the same again in the fifth Myers movie. This particular movie holds many strings to my heart as it is not only last appearance of Donald Pleasence in this franchise but in any movie ever, as he sadly passed away before the conclusion of the production of the movie. He was a legend in my eyes and always gave a fantastic performance in whatever role he was selected for. I will take a moment to reflect on his legendary work.
So this was one of the poorest movies in the franchise the story follows from the ending of the last movie and explains why Michael is an obsessed killer and Jamie Lloyd is all grown up although a 6 year gap between the movies does not seem log enough for Jamie to be grown up enough to be having a baby but a baby she is having. This has all been set up by the satanic cult who captured both Killer and victim and then decided to keep them in the same location. A kind lady helps Jamie and the baby escape just as Michael does the same and then he is in hot pursuit again. I can’t remember how but Tommy from the original film is back and all grown up and tries to help Jamie. The druid Satan worshipping horde of black shrouded people are in chase of all three. Meanwhile Tommy had teamed up with Dr Loomis, Jamie and baby. Tommy has been researching the possible reasons why Michael goes on a killing spree every years and shock horror has come up with the same thing that the shrouded hordes have come up!!! That Michael is cursed! Now you may of thought that Thorn was just a Demon Dog that protecting his master in the Lost Boys its also a curse that makes you kill a family member every Halloween. Well who would of thunk that!
I didn’t think it at all. I remember being a University back in 1995 and was saddened to hear that Donald Pleasence had died in the making of Halloween 666 or Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers or Halloween 666: The Origin Of Michael Myers or just Halloween 6 or whatever it was going to be called but thought they may of canned the whole project. It turned out that effectively Donald had practically finished filming his scenes and the story of the mysterious dressed in black man at the end of Halloween 5 was. I remember hearing a friend swearing in a panic about never finding out who the man in black was. Ultimately when we found out I was disappointed! I know I am sounding like a broken record but I wanted to enjoy this movie particularly with it seeing the end of a movie legend Donald but its kind of fell flat. The Thorn curse takes centre stage and in the grand scheme of things ended the original story that had led us through movies 1-2-4-5 and concluded here as the next two films ignore these ever happened and the next one after that so I think it’s the ninth one tears them all to bits and replaces them all as if they never happened. My reading of that is even we realised that they are all rubbish so we are going to retcon them all. So, movies 2-8 are purely smoke and mirrors but that movie will be reviewed on here later. My point here is that this movie killed the original storyline that had a roundabout to navigate in the third movie but still continued through five movies to finally end here. And it ends with a whimper. The movie ends with what I will finish this review with as you never find out exactly what happens but the movie ends with Dr Loomis being left in the building and you just hear the tones of Donald Pleasence screaming in what appears to be him dying at the hands of Michael Myers but you never see this happen so the screen goes black as you hear Donald for the last time on screen scream, all very sad.
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