Several years after the events of Halloween 5, a now adult Jamie Lloyd escapes the cult she was being held captive by after giving birth to a child. Going on the run with the baby, eventually Myers catches up to her and takes her down... but not before she manages to hide the baby. Enter Tommy, the boy Laurie babysat in the original Halloween, who finds the baby. Together with relatives of the Strodes (who happen to now live in the old Myers' house), they must work together to protect this baby and find a way to take down Michael once and for all.
Does that synopsis sound awful? Yes, yes it does, and I can't get my head around how the makers of this film didn't see it too. Expanding on the cult of thorn plot (that was ALL BUT CUT from the previous film.... just... WHAT???), we have Myers chasing a baby (that may or may not be his - don't get me started...) killing a bunch of unremarkable fodder along the way. It was quite interesting seeing Paul Rudd in his big screen debut as Tommy, and sadly Donald Pleasence passed away during post production, with this being his penultimate film appearance. There were also some tense action scenes (if you can call them that... tense scenes? Stalking scenes? Whatever...) but that aside this film is completely forgettable. The next film would wisely reboot everything, so thankfully this cult of thorn nonsense ends here...
Does that synopsis sound awful? Yes, yes it does, and I can't get my head around how the makers of this film didn't see it too. Expanding on the cult of thorn plot (that was ALL BUT CUT from the previous film.... just... WHAT???), we have Myers chasing a baby (that may or may not be his - don't get me started...) killing a bunch of unremarkable fodder along the way. It was quite interesting seeing Paul Rudd in his big screen debut as Tommy, and sadly Donald Pleasence passed away during post production, with this being his penultimate film appearance. There were also some tense action scenes (if you can call them that... tense scenes? Stalking scenes? Whatever...) but that aside this film is completely forgettable. The next film would wisely reboot everything, so thankfully this cult of thorn nonsense ends here...