Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

The Curse of Michael Myers is a genuine mess and it's worth being curious about mainly for how bizarre that mess is. Introducing an ancient druid cult controlling Michael through a supernatural curse retroactively explains away everything that made the character frightening in the original, trading blank-faced inexplicable evil for convoluted occult mythology nobody asked for. The behind-the-scenes chaos, extensive reshoots, a rushed new ending after Donald Pleasence's death, over twenty minutes cut in the editing room, left a film that barely holds together even by the low standards of mid-90s slasher sequels. There's a fan-favorite Producer's Cut with a different ending that's genuinely more coherent, which tells you everything about how compromised the theatrical release actually is. Worth a curious look for franchise completionists and nothing more.