Mr. DuLac’s review published on Letterboxd:
Enough of this Michael Myers bullshit!
-John Strode
If Halloween 5 began filming with an unfinished script then this has to have started filming with no script. The movie is utter nonsense from opening to closing credit as it tries to tie in every loose end imaginable and attempts to even explain things that didn't need explaining. While it's doing that though, it offers no explanations for the various new crap it introduces us to.
The movie opens up with narration explaining that 9 year old Jamie Lloyd and Michael Myers disappeared six years ago with no trace. Apparently that cowboy dressed in black in the last film was actually part of a cult because we now see a 15 year old Jamie giving birth to a child in an underground layer surrounded by hooded cult members. Apparently Michael is also hanging out in this layer... still dressed in coveralls and the same Halloween mask from six years prior... seriously. How is Jamie pregnant? What did they do to her in those six years? The writer of the film apparently didn't think any of that info was important enough to put in the film.
We assume the cult is helping Michael and protecting him, but you never actually see them interact with him in any way, shape, or form. I like to picture them giving him a drive to his next victim's house and making sure he has his keys on him for the front door of the underground layer in case he comes home at a late hour.
The entire cult plot is suppose to explain what Michael Myers is and why he does what he does. The details in the explanation are pure rubbish and don't deserve to be repeated. The film is trying to explain something that didn't need explaining. Admittedly his motivations have been muddled through less then stellar sequels, but this does it no favors.
Probably my favorite aspect of the film though is Paul Rudd playing the grown up Tommy Doyle. He was the kid that Laurie was babysitting in the original film (not played by Rudd back then). Seeing him attempt to play a creepy character is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on film (it's not supposed to be funny). While he's supposed to be a somewhat disturbed character in the film, I just expect him to go on a tangent at any given moment and tell someone off about Venti not being large.
The movie then trumps Halloween 5 for worst ending in the series. Not because something undesirable happens, but because it goes out of it's way to not make a lick of sense. The movie actually ends without the audience knowing who's dead or alive. There's even someone possibly being killed when the credits suddenly kick in, but they thought it was better to just end it with nothing being clear for the audience.
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