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 Well, unless "Halloween Infinity" comes out, it's pretty safe to say that "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers" is about as bad as the Halloween series gets, even though it tries to be different. In this sixth offering, they try to expand more on the background of Myers rather than making a tired repeat of the earlier sequels. This sounds like a good idea, but how they do this is just mind-numbingly stupid. As a child, Myers has been brainwashed by an evil cult into killing his family members only on certain Halloweens when a thorn-like constellation appears in the sky, and he's murdering his family in order to protect the cult. Really, it takes a very suggestible person to buy into this idiocy, and the whole cult explanation behind Myers' madness is just another example proving that a bad answer is worse than no answer at all. There is hardly any suspense, and Myers only kills a bunch of one-dimensional characters who evoke no pity once they're dead. There's a cartoonishly abusive father who calls his own kids bastards (right in their faces too) and a drunk whose head explodes from electricity (graphic but silly), but you won't miss them. As the movie drifts into the second half, it becomes a needlessly complicated mess and fizzles out with a weak ending (details intentionally withheld). Not even Donald Pleasance could save this one. The script is beyond hopeless, and he does sound unhealthy in this picture. Overall, there is very little to recommend here, even if you're genuinely interested in the mysteries behind the Man in Black, Michael Myers, Dr. Loomis, etc. Except for a particularly brutal murder involving farm equipment and some eerie visuals here and there, the movie has nothing to validate its existence. |
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** NOTE: The more dots on the domino, the better the movie. 11 or 12 dots is top-notch entertainment while one or no dots signifies a movie that might cure insomnia. ** |
    
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