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Tarfumes.com - Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers
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Manufacturer: Dimension
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitch Ryan, Kim Darby
Directed By: Joe Chappelle
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0717951010636
Format: Color
Label: Dimension
Manufacturer: Dimension
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Dimension
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-10-10
Running Time: 88
Studio: Dimension
Theatrical Release Date: 1995-09-29
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For pulse-pounding suspense and relentless thrills, nothing can match HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS -- one of the most frightening chapters in the chilling HALLOWEEN series! In a single horrifying night, Michael Myers' masked reign of terror changed Halloween forever! Now, six years after he was presumed dead in a fire, Myers has returned to kill again -- and this time there's no escape! As the homicidal fury builds to a spine-tingling cliimax, the long-hidden secrets of the screen's most maniacal murderer are revealed ... with shocking results! Starring a thrilling cast including legendary Donald Pleasence (HALLOWEEN, THE ADVOCATE) and Paul Rudd (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, CLUELESS).
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Summary: An Underrated Gem (3 1/2 stars)
Comment: Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers is about a little boy who begins having nightmares and hearing voices of a strange man all dressed in black telling him to commit acts of murder. In the process Michael Myers has returned to the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on a mission of murder perusing his niece. Of course Dr. Loomis is on Myers' tale while a much larger evil is at force.
Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers is one of those films that gets often ridiculed by fans, but that is most unfair. This slasher sequel has a lot more going for it then your most critics and genre fans give it credit for.
First off, you have a little boy, Danny, having nightmares of a man in black telling him to commit acts of murder. Then he begins to see and hear the man in various times and places. Perhaps it is the most horrifying form of terror to feel that your mind is consumed by an external torment. Also, of course the child instead of obeying the commends of the "voice" rises up against the voice to not commit acts of murder, but to express his fear in a more positive way such as drawings.
The "Voice Man" in many ways makes one thing of an evil type such as Osama Ben Laden or Sadam Hussein. These are the kind of people whom preach evil to others and are blindly followed. Michael is basically a puppet on a string, being controlled by this man, not by words but by dark magic called "Thorn."
Then we have a returning character named Tommy Doyle. One would remember him as the little boy in the original Halloween who enjoyed horror movies and popcorn, who was baby sat by Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). His character returns in this installment as an adult who has been severely affected by the traumatic events that he went through as a child. He grows up to be obsessed with the very thing that scared him as a child. I think that is a very powerful metaphor for the very fans of this genre. Often times we see a horror film for the first time as a child, and once that happens we are forever linked to what scared us the most. That is because fear does a lot of things for the mind. It motivates, and once the frightening event is over your mind tries to put the events in the context of some sort of rational thought. Tommy was scared by Michael as a child and spends his whole existence trying to find the reasoning behind Michael's madness, just like the typical horror fan is scared by a film as a child and spends their whole life watching these films trying to find the reason for their obsession. Is the obsession dangerous? No, as long as it is put to positive use and not negative use. Tommy was scared by Michael, but he did not imitate Michael, he rather tried to explain Michael. Being a horror fan has responsibilities. One must watch these film and try to use them in positive ways by being either creative or insightful rather then engage in criminal activity. Tommy Doyle is the perfect metaphor for the horror fan.
At it's core, once the subtext is aside, Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers makes for the perfect popcorn slasher flick. It has a brooding Michael with murder sequences filled with special effects by John Carl Buechler that please any fan of the slasher genre. It has suspenseful stalking and chase scenes and inspired music by Allan Howarth.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best Sequel, deserves a new Release
Comment: Halloween has gone downhill so much, at least part 3 created a new idea, that I thought was great and at least 2 was atmosheric, but 4,5,7 and 8...were a bit ridiculous. But part 6 was scary. It really was. It was atmosheric, visual, very bloody which is good for most horror fans, and it has great sound effects, music, etc.
This DVD, however, has a dull master, the video doesnt look to sharp in colors and it hardly seems restored, the sound is ok but there is no surround, this dvd is desperate for a 5.1 mix
Dimension Video needs to distribute a Blu Ray edition of this DVD with better sound and image quality, and some extras, some deleted scenes interviews, trailers, anything!!! Let's hope Dimension gives this one a better release soon, or hands it over to anchor Bay or some other distributor who knows if a good edition is released, it will sell like crazy
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Summary: happy halloween
Comment: halloween is the best time and the series gives the holiday another reason to like horror..which I love
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Summary: Why do people bash this movie???
Comment: In my opinion, the cult storyline makes a lot more sense as to why Michael Myers is immortal. In the other films such as parts 1, 2, and H20 they do not mention as to HOW he is. There has to be a reason behind it and just being a psychopath murderer does not make someone impervious to pain and death! I think Tommy Doyle is a cool character. I like very much to see the Producers Cut and hope it is released soon.
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Summary: YUCK!!!!!!!!!
Comment: I went to see this in the theater and after the barn/thresher scene I got up and walked out.
This installment goes to even more gruesome heights then the previous ones.
I did watch it again on video from start to finish and forwarded through the barn scene.
More grossness followed but I'm sort of used to it by now, it does look pretty fake most of the time.
The story line?
What story line?
It turns out the Satanists have been hiding Michael the whole time and unleashing him to commit more murders.
And he turns on them at the end and kills them too. And even the story line is BARELY explained. Probably because the film makers knew the story sucked right from the get go.
HOW LAME!!!!!!!!!!
Satanists???
The sacred name of the original Halloween has been reduced to this nonsense???
Part two was ok, every Halloween after that has been a slap in the face of every fan of the original.
A totally DESPERATE attempt by Hollyweird to make sense of Michael's history.
It fails!!!!!!!!
Miserably!!!!!!!!!!!!
A joke, horrid acting, horrid story, horrid directing, horrid everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As bad as Halloween Resurrection was with Busta Rhyme's doing his Karate nonsense.
At least THAT movie gives a somewhat reasonable explanation as to where Michael was during all those years.
Under the original house in the sewers. It's still stupid but it makes more sense than some group of Satanists protecting him.
NOT RECOMMENDED!!!
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