Many fans felt that Jason Goes to Hell scored an own goal by barely featuring Jason in it. However at least Jason was still the killer though he was unrecognizable and missing his trademark hockey mask. Would Darth Vader have the same impact if he spent most of the film unmasked?
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| I bet he sparkles in sunlight also |
Halloween III: The Season of the Witch go one step further. They remove Michael Myers as the killer and include something about killer masks that may or may not have involved Jim Carey. But that’s fine because he’s dead right? He burned to a crisp at the end of the second film. Although Myers was the personification of evil he was still a man and like most men a little fire intolerant.
John Carpenter didn’t want a slew of Michael Myers films, and only agreed to the have any involvement in the third film if it would not be a direct sequel to Halloween II. After pissing off their fan base by removing the only bankable asset of the growing franchise and giving it a title that had nothing to do with the plot, the studio opted to bring The Shape back “from the dead” for the imaginatively titled The Return of Michael Myers...and piss the fans off in a completely knew and inventive way.
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| The undisputed master of sacrilege |
Like the previous films, Michael is after his living family members, this time in the form of his niece. Insulting as it is that Michael is outsmarted by a child for The Return of Michael Myers and follow up The Revenge of Michael Myers, they humiliate him further by arresting him and throwing him in towards the end of the 5th film. Although proven to be an indestructible killing machine, Michael appears to be incredibly respectful of the law. By the end of number 6's The Curse of Michael Myers, it’s evident the filmmakers don’t respect anyone.
Dr Loomis hit the nail on the head when he describes Myers as the embodiment of evil, he couldn’t really explain why. And who cared? Well, the makers of The Curse of Michael Myers it would seem as it turns out
“Michael has been under the influence of evil representing an ancient rune symbol called Thorn, that druid astronomers claimed was originated from a constellation of stars that appear from time to time on Halloween night. It is an ancient Druid curse that represented a demon that spread sickness and caused destruction among druid tribes. In order to prevent this, each tribe had to inflict the curse on one child, so each child could offer the blood sacrifice of its next of kin on the night of Samhain (Halloween); a motivation of why Michael is trying to kill his family”.
The phrase what and the utter fuck? spring to mind. It gets worse when it is revealed that Michael’s been hanging about with some cult that are planning on harnessing his evil by genetically engineering babies making mini Michael Myers for some sort of evil army. This is the equivalent of the producers perfoming bukkake onto the cinema goers.
It’s awful, so awful in fact that when Halloween H2O is released, they pretend that Michael has been missing from the end of the 2nd film and in effect removing the bastard storyline from continuity. That gave the filmmakers free reign to churn out more sequels without having to worry about plot, story or credibility whatsoever.
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| Sorry, but we just can't let this go George |
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| Arguable a more worthy adversary than a 7 year old |
But don't worry, they haven't stopped there. Now that 3D is certain to squeeze some extra money from the punters, why not have a Halloween 3D. Plot, director, script? Who cares, it's in 3D, and 3D films cost us extra to go see!
As for Rob Zombie's films, they can fuck right off.
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