Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is a
1995 horror film and the sixth installment in the
Halloween series. Directed by
Joe Chappelle from a screenplay by Daniel Farrands, the plot involves the "Curse of Thorn", a mystical symbol first shown in
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and revealed in the film to be the source of
Michael Myers' evil.
[Nicholas Rogers, Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 110.] The cast includes
Paul Rudd as
Tommy Doyle, a returning character from the original
Halloween film, and
Donald Pleasence reprising his role as protagonist
Dr. Sam Loomis.
Opening to a respectable $7.3 million on September 29, 1995, coming in second to New Line's seminal serial killer thriller
Se7en.
[ boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=1995&wknd=39&p=.htm] Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and the Thorn plotline would be ignored in succeeding installments, 1998's
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and 2002's
Halloween: Resurrection. However, the 2001
Halloween comic book series published by
Chaos Comics - and based on Daniel Farrands' concept for the eighth
Halloween film - attempts to bridge the continuity between
The Curse of Michael Myers and
Halloween H20.
