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Halloween or Friday the 13th?
This was the "Halloween" flick that fans of the franchise waited 8 years for. Sadly it did not live up to expectations.

After the very stupid ending of "H5", how could the producers bring back Michael? Easy, by ignoring the other films and adding a hokey plot about Michael being in some stupid cult. Realy believable huh? The film starts with Jamie (this time not played by Danielle Harris)having Michael's baby, don't ask I'm confused as well. She escapes her captors with the baby and runs away.

She is killed eventually, and the baby is found by Tommy Doyle (Played By Paul Rudd-"Clueless"). Michael goes back to "Haddonfield" poor town, to wreak some more havoc. He now goes after the people living in the old Strode house. I know guys my head hurts too.

Michael starts knocking people off "Jason" style. Hacking without any suspense. He kills a woman who eeriely resembles the main character of the mom from the defunct TV show "Mama's Family" with an axe. Since when our old pal Mikey went the savage route? He electrocutes another until his head explodes, and he even decimates a room full of doctors with a knife so big it could have been the "Green Destiny" sword from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

This is all a bit much for me. Not because it's gory, but because it is so out of character for Michael Myers. Michael was very calm and watched you for a while before he actually attacked. Here he just slices and dices away. Also he is so fat in this movie, what was he eating while he was away? Twinkies?

The movie gets points for the way the mask looks, it looks pretty scary. But the film is too resemblant of the silly splatter flicks that pretty much ruined the horror genre. Donald Pleasance in his last film role, trys his best to bring some credibility to the film. Sadly it did not help. The ending is such a bore, we all know you cant beat Michael with a metal pipe and expect him to stay down.

This flick is pretty bad, but not as bad as "Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch." By now the premise is just tired. The filmmakers have ignored the previous storyline. I hear there is some special "Producers Cut" of the film but I doubt that it would have added much to this convoluted story any way.

An Unimaginative Sequel To A Very Successful Franchise
Halloween 6 attempts to squeeze water from a stone in its approach to the Halloween franchise introduced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. The movie, a dis-jointed plot with a smattering of underdeveloped characters and predictable, often unbelievable scenes, is a failed attempt to explain the origins of Michael Myers.

The film begins with the birth of a child, the last in the Myer's lineage, within the bowels of a hospital in which Michael Myers has been secretly hidden away for 10 years. The child belongs to Michael's niece, formerly seen in the earlier sequels Halloween 4 and 5. As the story unfolds, we are to realize that Michael, like this new child, was born as part of a cult that is run by a bunch of aging doctors who are trying to uncover a means to immortality. Are you lost? Or disenchanted? Join the club.

To be fair, there are moments when the sets, color and style of the film is genuinely appealing, but these moments are few and far between. Largely the characters are difficult to relate to, or so non-dimensional we simply don't care for them. As a result, the movie uses the lowest thrill tactic of the genre-gore. In place of building suspense, the film attempts to use graphic violence to induce a thrill...instead, it induces disgust, not at the imagery, but at the lack of the filmmakers imagination.

In viewing the Halloween films, begin with Parts 1 and 2, then move directly to Halloween H20, bypassing the other four films in-between. You will save yourself a lot of time and disappointment.

Muddled sequel keep you guessing
Six years after the massacre in "Halloween 5", Michael Myers comes out of hiding as niece Jamie Lloyd (J.C. Brandy stepping in for Danielle Harris) has a baby. As Michael stalks her, she calls a radio station that's airing a program about him and pleads for help from Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance). He hears her and comes out of retirement to face his old nemesis, as does Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd, picking up Brian Andrews' character from the original film) and the two of them attempt to stop Michael once more. This time around he sets his sights on the Strodes, kin of Laurie, who happen to live in his old house. (Which makes no sense when you think about it). While he dispatches the new tenants, we learn the identity of the cloaked man introduced in "Halloween 5" and Michael's connection to the Druids. Film underwent several cuts/changes prior to release, which leads to some incoherancy throughout. There is a more complete "Producer's Cut" around, but as of this writing it hasn't seen the light of day. I think introducing the subplot with the Druids was a big mistake, as it undermines John Carpenter's original vision of Michael Myers as a "blank slate", whose motives and reasons are known only to him. More suspense and scares than the previous installment, but what started out as a simple fable about a mindless killer has gotten pretty outrageous.

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