Day 289 of the challenge! The Producer’s Cut of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) makes more sense, but it’s still a bad movie.
I’m counting The Producer’s cut of Halloween 6 in the challenge because nearly 43 minutes (or 70 according to the bluray set, but I’m not about to start counting) of the film has been altered from the theatrical, and the ending is COMPLETELY different. New narrative, new ending, new challenge post. Anyway…
My biggest issue with the theatrical version was that nothing made sense. Characters did things for..reasons, appeared in places or did certain things for…more reasons…you get the idea. In the Producer’s Cut, enough narrative tissue is spliced back in to make sense of MOST of the frustrating plot randomness, keyword being most. These alterations totally changed the plot of the film (Well maybe not totally, but enough) and made it gel better with the rest of the franchise.
That being said, it’s still a lousy movie. Some of the worst bits and sequences in the theatrical version of Halloween 6 (or funniest, considering your point of view), are still fully intact for the viewing world to roll their eyes at. Surprisingly, the violence is a little tamer in the Producer’s Cut, making me think they tried to cover up the narrative butchering of the theatrical with obsessive amounts of campy gore. Oooh blood, don’t think about it! Lord knows they tried to distract and “edge it up” with all those god awful white flashes and random knife sounds.
The ending of the Producer’s Cut left things in a very interesting and different place, but unfortunately (fortunately?), that’s a thread we never got to see. Too bad, since it flipped the character dynamics of the franchise quite a bit. Either way, Halloween 6 was such a mess, it warranted the franchise’s first retconning reboot only three years later. H20 has it’s own set of issues, but it’s a masterpiece compared to either version of Halloween 6.
Time to see what the Zombie films have to offer…