Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Daniel Farrands
Composers: Alan Howarth, Paul Rabjohns
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitchell Ryan, Kim Darby, Bradford English, Keith Bogart, Mariah O'Brien
More info: IMDb
Tagline: True Terror Never Dies!
Plot: Six years after Michael Myers last terrorized Haddonfield, he returns there in pursuit of his niece, Jamie Lloyd, who has escaped with her newborn child, for which Michael and a mysterious cult have sinister plans.
My rating: 5/10
Will I watch it again? No.
The continuity in this serious is pretty fucking bad. This is the first one (of the Michael Myers Halloweens) that feels less like a Halloween picture and more like a typical horror movie. There are jump scares all over this thing and that's not something I remember the previous entries relying on. I can't think of much to say about it which is neither good nor bad. It's OK at best. There seemed to be less music than in previous films and that takes away from building any much-needed atmosphere. It's just 90 minutes of mostly meh. I guess they introduced the cult angle to explain how Michael is un-killable. My mind wandered a lot while watching this and I found myself asking questions like what does Michael do in the off-season? Where does he hang out, what does he like for breakfast, does he have an exercise plan to keep in tip top knife-lunging shape? I reckon he must hibernate or something. He is the definition of evil according to Loomis and the rest of the cast so there's definitely a supernatural thing going on. This is a notable entry in that Pleasence died shortly after filming and Paul Rudd makes his film debut. Hey, at least they're getting a little more consistent with continuity by not having any when Jamie Lee Curtis shows up in the next one.
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