“I’ve wanted to believe it. But I’ve felt Michael’s presence, behind these walls, just like all those years ago. Plotting, staring, Staring. Waiting for some signal. I can’t go through this again, not alone. Please, as my colleague, as my friend. Help me.” -Dr. Sam Loomis
Six years Michael has been on the loose, aided by a group with a medical staff. A young woman gives birth to a baby boy, stained with the mark of thorn. A nurse helps her escape with the baby, only to be slaughtered by Myers in pursuit. The woman gets to a phone at a bus station and pleads with the dj to reach Dr. Sam Loomis. Myers reaches her and brutally kills her without knowing that the baby is stowed away. That woman was Jamie Lloyd, Michael’s niece, and the last surviving member of his family… until tonight.
In the eighteen years since Michael stalked Laurie Strode, the boy she babysat and had frequently seen Myers about town, Tommy Doyle, has turned the killer into an obsession of his. He believes Michael’s impossible feats are due to ties with Halloween itself, more specifically the druids and the Curse of Thorn.How he came to that very specific answer… well I don’t know. But he HAPPENED to be right. Too bad he’s super creepy, perving on his neighbor Kara, Laurie Strode’s cousin who now lives in the Myers’ house on the cheap with her son, mom, and abusive father.
Oh, and the son Danny, he’s being “groomed?” to be the new Boogieman of Haddenfield. Why? Who knows! But he’s being groomed by *tada* The Man in Black… maybe… who isn’t Michael’s twin brother, he’s Dr. Loomis’ long time friend and head of the asylum Michael escaped from in ’78, Dr. Wynn… he’s also the leader of The Cult of Thorn and believes Michael must attack his own family every year on Halloween… except apparently 1964-1977, 1979-1987, and 1990-1994; I guess being locked up, unconscious, and hanging out with a cult don’t count for those years. This Thorn guy is really inconsistent.
Anywho, Tommy finds the baby and makes Kara help him take care of it. Loomis is charged by Dr. Wynn to find the baby and teams up with Tommy. And everyone revolving around our central heroes get killed off in some of the best deaths the series have to offer, mostly due to iconic framing and camera work.
The quintet find themselves in the secret hideout of the Thorn cult, saving the baby and Kara. Michael decides at this moment he’d rather hang out with Ant-Man, and murders the higher ups of the cult. Why? …Anyway, Tommy uses magic to subdue Michael…(yes, I’m being serious; the movie isn’t, but I am), tranquilizes Michael, and beats the ever-loving Thorn outta him with a pipe till green comes from his face.
With Tommy, Kara, Danny, and the baby safe, Loomis goes back to make sure Michael is down for good. A mask lays on the floor, an empty syringe next to it, and a painful cry off in the darkness as an old man dies… His obsession, his life’s work, his archnemesis, after 32 years, finally ended their conflict…
Halloween: Curse of Michael Myers is a movie I have a hard time hating. This is the movie that brought me into the Myers fold. The theatrical cut has these terrible flashing transitions, unceremoniously kill off Jamie (who wasn’t even played by Danielle Harris), the story is a mess, and many people feel Donald Pleasence wasn’t given a good send off (he had passed away during post production).
However, I feel the producer’s cut isn’t better. Yes, we would get some nice character moments like Loomis talking about how plastic surgery allows him not to scare people any more and saying goodbye to Jamie at the morgue. But they’d have continue the Thorn plot with Loomis now in charge of Michael, and an ambiguous line about the baby being Michael’s…who is Jamie’s uncle… Now, maybe they meant it as “it belongs to him, it’s his to kill” but it certainly could be taken the incestuous way.
I always wanted to do a fan cut of this film, an ultimate version to take it back for the fans! The movie was bogged down with tons of meddling from the higher ups, but I feel like it’s a diamond in the rough; a delicious steak is under all that fat, grissle, and sinue. Maybe someday I’ll be able to make it: Halloween 666: The Cult of Michael Myers, focus more on Michael trying to get the baby, remove the Thorn thing as being factual, keep the character moments, lose a lot of Paul Rudd’s stilted performance (maybe try to dub him with later roles?), and leave the theatrical ending but edited. These maybe the rantings of a fanboy, but if you’ve read this I’d say you’re a fan, too.
“After my stroke six years ago they practically had to hold a pistol to my head to get me to retire. But things are different now- I’m different. I’ve buried the ghosts, I’ve buried them in this manuscript. I don’t want to practice medicine anymore.“
Texan, y’all! Cinema glutton, horror enthusiast, sci-fi nerd, comic lover, and I like Japanese stuff too (the culture, kaiju, martial arts, samurai, some anime). Love me some Mario, Sonic, and Pokemon.
