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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 30Time OutTime OutA 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.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe 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.
- 20EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanAnother 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.
- 20TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe film is so dark -- literally -- it's often hard to see what's going on.
- 10The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenEasily 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.
- 10Washington PostWashington PostAnd 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.
- 0ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIn the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture -- just not in the way the film makers intended.
- 0San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThis sixth installment, by far the worst in the series, is bland and deadening.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovFar and away, one of the most tedious, uninspired offerings thus far (and, worst of all, the door is left open for yet another pointless sequel).