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Hughie Jones

Just Okay, probably better for 'ween fans

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2014

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Okay but not as good as the previous 4

Daniel Smith

Not the Best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2013

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This is the 6th film in the franchise, and sadly not the best. The way it started with Jamie Lloyd escaping from where she was kidnapped, 6 years after Halloween 5, was good. But she was killed off by Michael in the opening 5/10 minutes, and sadly wasn't played by the same actress. The story concept from then on wasn't great, and seemingly pointless. The only good thing was the explanation of the curse of thorn - why Michael is why he is.

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Alain

PAS LES BONNES VOIX FRANÇAISES

Reviewed in France on 9 September 2015

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Satisfaite du DVD et de sa livraison rapide,mais le soucis c'est qu'i ne s'agit pas des bonnes voix française ce qui gâche un peu le film quand ont le regarde.

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David Girod

The Wrap Up to Jamie & Thorn

Reviewed in the United States on 25 October 2013

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I was really, really hoping that this series would not go out on the down note that was Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (DiviMax Edition) , and I guess I got my wish with this entry?

This film takes place about 7 years after the last film, and somehow Jamie has grown from a 7 year old girl to about 22 years of age in that time. Apparently held hostage by the Thorn cult and I'm guessing she was forcibly impregnated....I don't know and don't want to think about it too long. So as this film starts Jamie is pregnant and ready to give birth. She's being held in a facility run by the Thorn cult who are hoping to use her baby as either a sacrifice to Michael, or maybe as the re-birth of Michael's evil...I don't know, and it's never really made clear.

After giving birth to a baby boy, Jamie escapes with her son thanks to the help of a friendly, but doomed nurse. So Jamie sets off for Haddonfield for some reason, with Michael in hot pursuit. As she's trying to escape her killer uncle she winds up in a deserted bus station.

While all of this is going on, it seems that all of Haddonfield is listening to a single radio station broadcasting a shock jock's radio show. The shock jock is taking calls regarding Michael Myers and an upcoming Halloween bash in Haddonfield. Jamie calls into the show and makes a plea of help to Dr. Loomis, who happens to be listening. Dropping the phone she hits the road again, leading Michael away from her tot, she makes her way to a run down barn full of sharp objects.

The next morning is Halloween, and we discover that a new family of Strodes have moved into the old Myers house. This family seems more dysfunctional than Michael's!! Abusive dad is abusive to his wife, daughter and grandson, and we immediately being waiting for him to die horribly. We also soon find out that Tommy, the little boy Laurie was babysitting in the original film is living across the street and waiting for Michael to come home.....again. He's listening to playback of Jamie's call to the shock jock from the night before and sets out to help her.

Michael soon comes back to ruin another Halloween for Haddonfield, and Thorn is out to make sure his evil walks the Earth with the help of Jamie's baby and a little boy named Danny Strode who seems to also hear the "voices" that drove Michael to kill when he was a boy.

The whole film is a convuluted mess, and what started as a simple series about a maniac attacking babysitters now involves Druids, rune stones, and who bunch of stuff that really just adds padding to the run time. There's supposed to be some twists in the story where people you thought were good guys are actually bad guys, and to make matters even more complicated, there's a version of this film floating around out there called "The Producer's Cut" which features a completely different ending. (I've seen it, and while it's different...it's still not very good).

Where the Halloween series went off the rails was trying to provide motive for Michael. They should've kept it simple like Friday the 13th , fans of these films don't need complicated plots or motives for the killer's actions, just make Michael the masked boogeyman, the Halloween spectre that occasionally appears to cause havoc. This film gets so caught up in trying to provide reasoning to Michael's action, it loses the focus on suspense and horror.

While it is a better film than part 5...that's not really saying much. If you've invested the time in Jamie's storyline with part 4 & 5, then you are kind of forced to endure this one so that you see how everything plays out, just don't expect to be satisfied.

To end on a high note, I have to say that one element of these films that I've always enjoyed is Donald Pleasence. Sure, these movies weren't high art, but Pleasance gave his all to this role (and every role he's ever played). Pleasance added a breath of life into this series, and without his manic Dr. Loomis, I don't know if these films would be remembered as well if he weren't part of them.

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Picnic

Tricks, no treats

Reviewed in the United States on 28 November 2013

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The problem with part VI is it has very little continuity with the other Halloween movies. It actually creates more questions than gives answers from the previous movies. The movie seems to be all over the place, it feels unfinished. I love horror, even some of the cheesy ones. I would only recommend this chapter if you are huge fan of the series. The original (1978) is one of my favorite movies of all time, only rivaled in its genre by Hitchcock. If your interested in this series I would recommend you watch Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H2o (7) and the first 10 minutes of Halloween Resurrection (8) and call that the story. I hope this helps.

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Elizabeth

DVD had several scratches

Reviewed in the United States on 22 July 2019

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Was suppose to be in “excellent” shape, received with several scratches on the back. It plays but I didn’t appreciate the deceiving description. Won’t buy from again.

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It had potential but was very poorly executed

Reviewed in the United States on 15 February 2022

Haloween Six, also called The Curse of Michael Myers, was really a mess of a movie. The mess, admittedly (by the producers) started with the production of the movie and carried through to the final product. It picks up years after the events of Halloween 5 in which Michael is broken out of jail and Jamie is kidnapped by the man in black. In this movie, we learn the identity of the man in black and find out that he is a larger part of a larger cult (essentially). The movie is pretty much non-sensical from beginning to end. The basic plot is that Jamie is pregnant (and it is very much hinted that Michael is somehow the father), has the baby, and escapes from the cult. Then, of course, Michael tries to track down the baby and in the process comes back to Haddonfield and wreaks havoc.

Really, the only thing that makes the movie worth watching is seeing Paul Rudd in one of his first major movie roles (this movie came out the same year as Clueless), as Tommy Doyle (the kid Laurie babysat in the original movie) who has become obsessed with Michael Meyers and seeing Donald Pleasance for the last time as Loomis. Everything else about the movie pretty much fell into the hot garbage category. Firstly, Danielle Harris, who was open to reprising her role as Jamie, hated what was done to the character so much she decided to not have anything to do with the movie. The plot was just stupid, and because the audience reception was so bad there were major reshoots done, including after Donald Pleasance died, that the character of Loomis was essentially written out offscreen.

This is just the theatrical cut of the movie. The disc does not include the producer's cut that was for years just available as a bootleg, but finally released in the Blu-ray box set a handful of years ago. I think the actors did the best they could with what they were given, which was not much, but Rudd and Pleasance did a really good job in their roles and basically kept the movie from being total garbage. I think if Jamie would have been incorporated better into the movie so that Danielle Harris would have come back, and they dispensed with the silly cult stuff, the movie would have been a lot better. That said, it is a very dark sequel, and it did have some good elements to it, just not enough (in my opinion).

If you get the original DVD release, you just basically get the movie itself. There are no extras (besides some coming soon trailers). Ultimately, the movie is not for everyone. Even for Halloween fans, it is not even close to being the best Halloween movie (or even the best sequel). So, I cannot say that even fans of the series are going to love it, but I still think it is worth watching as long as you temper your expectations.

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