Synopsis
Six years after being kidnapped by a cult, Jamie tries to escape the clutches of her serial killer uncle, Michael Myers.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Donald PleasenceDr. Sam Loomis
- Paul RuddTommy Doyle
- Marianne HaganKara Strode
- Mitchell RyanDr. Terence Wynn
- Kim DarbyDebra Strode
- Bradford EnglishJohn Strode
- Keith BogartTim Strode
- Mariah O'BrienBeth
- Leo GeterBarry Simms
- J.C. BrandyJamie Lloyd
Recommendations
- 30
Time Out
A series of competently engineered shock moments jollied along by a jazzed-up version of John Carpenter's original electronic score: slicker than crude oil and just as unattractive. - 25
Slant Magazine
The Curse of Michael Myers’s supernatural angle is understandably its weakest link, seeing as it was the aspect of the film that test audiences disliked the most. - 20
Empire
Another soulless, pointless rip-off, this doodles around the plot parameters of John Carpenter's Halloween movies with only Pleasence, who died during production, and Carpenter's theme tune as links to the series' beginnings. - 20
TV Guide Magazine
The film is so dark -- literally -- it's often hard to see what's going on. - 20
Variety
Not even the addition of satanic rituals, farm implements or a Howard Stern-like shock jock (Leo Geter) is enough to paint over the creaky trappings. - 10
The New York Times
Easily the most inept episode of the Halloween series, The Curse of Michael Myers, which opened yesterday, is so busy cramming half-baked supernatural rigmarole into its formula that it has forgotten how to be suspenseful. - 10
Washington Post
And so begins the impale imitation of John Carpenter's once-scary bogyman tale, in which every shadow and reflection is premeditated and all the herrings are red. - 0
ReelViews
In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture -- just not in the way the film makers intended.
