![]() Hearing his shrink call him evil was enough for me. Why does this group of urban Satanists want the Myers clan dead? Who knows? It's sloppy and ill-advised. This seems like a clever war tactic, provided you're only at war with a neighboring Druid tribe, but Michael's familial curse is still not explained in its modern context. ![]() They tattoo a baby shortly after birth, and that baby will grow up with evil in their soul, forced to murder all of their own family members. In this film, we learn that the cowboy was actually the head of a cult called Thorn, that has been cursing people for centuries. You may recall at the end of Halloween 5 that Michael was freed from prison by a mysterious cowboy figure. If we accept that he's a semi-supernatural force of evil, then he's far scarier and, I would argue, far more interesting as a dramatic presence.Ĭurse tries to explain away all of Michael's actions under the banner of an ancient Druid curse, inflicted by a group of Satanic robe-wearing cultists with unlimited access to candles. If we know his motivation, we can come up with solutions as to how to circumvent his murderous actions. Wilbur from Halloween 4) is more interesting the less we know abut him personally. I mentioned in my coverage of Halloween II that Michael (now played by George P. The experience of watching this film can only serve as an object lesson as to Hollywood gone wrong.Īnd that's to say nothing toward the ultimate self-defeating premise of the movie, which would sting even if the filmmaking weren't scattered and sloppy. Seriously, if you want a model of how studio tinkering and over-editing can drive something as simple as a slasher film into total incoherence, look no further than the sixth Halloween movie. Plagued by budget and production problems, Curse feels like it was made by four different directors who, even between them, didn't manage film everything that was in the script, which, in itself, went through eleven distinct drafts with eleven different endings, none of which could be agreed upon by the filmmakers and the studio. Joe Chappelle, 1995)ĭirector Joe Chappelle also made Phantoms. Let's look at… Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (dir. Let's waste no time, as we have to tackle what is easily the worst film in the series first. A little peek ahead: Halloween: Resurrection features no actual resurrection.īut to the series itself. If so, that one may also be one of the worst in the series, if you manage not to have fun with the infinitely bonkers premise.īut this week we'll be looking at Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, an alternate cut of the same, the intended “final” chapter in the series Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, and the true final film in the series (before the reboot, sigh) called Halloween: Resurrection. ![]() Well, it's debatable whether or not the Michael-free Halloween III: Season of the Witch even counts as part of the series in anything other than Roman numeral. ![]() Like most slasher series, the Halloween movies are gradually diminishing in quality as we go along, and we will find that this week will uncover the two worst chapters in the franchise. We've covered the first five films over the course of the last two weeks, and this week, we'll be looking at the final three chapters in the original Halloween continuity. Welcome back, fellow slasher fans, to the third installment in the Halloween edition of CraveOnline's The Series Project. His medium is teenagers and security guards. There is just not enough blood in this one.” Michael is an artist. “The life drained out of them satisfyingly enough,” he may think to himself, “but next time I have got to hit close to an artery. Grading himself, perhaps giving himself some constructive criticism. There have been numerous scenes throughout the Halloween series, wherein Michael will stab someone, or axe someone, or pin them to a wall with a pointed object, and then stand back and admire their dead body. More than any other movie slasher, Michael stops to survey his own handiwork. Oh sure, he's a serial killer and his work involves murdering dozens upon dozens of people, but he seems to have a pretty strong work ethic.
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