Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
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Directed by	Joe Chappelle
Produced by	Paul Freeman
Written by	Daniel Farrands
Based on	Characters by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Starring	Donald Pleasence Paul Stephen Rudd Marianne Hagan Mitch Ryan
Music by	Alan Howarth
Cinematography	Billy Dickson
Edited by	Randolph K. Bricker
Production company	Miramax Films Nightfall Productions Trancas International
Distributed by	Dimension Films
Release date	September 29, 1995 (1995-09-29) (U.S.)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million
Box office	$15.1 million

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is a 1995 American slasher film and the sixth installment in the Halloween film series. Directed by Joe Chappelle from a screenplay by Daniel Farrands, the plot involves the "Curse of Thorn", a mystical symbol first shown in The Revenge of Michael Myers and revealed in the film to be the source of Michael Myers' immortality. 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 in his final film appearance. Jamie Lloyd's appearance in the beginning of the film ties up loose ends to The Revenge of Michael Myers. With an almost 6 year gap from Halloween 5, Halloween 6 marks one of the longest delays in the film series' sequel history.

Curse opened to a respectable $7.3 million on September 29, 1995, coming in second to New Line's seminal serial killer thriller Seven.Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and the Thorn plotline would be rendered non-canon in succeeding installments, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection. However, the 2001 Halloween comic book series published by Chaos Comics—and based on Farrands' concept for the eighth Halloween film—attempts to bridge the continuity between The Curse of Michael Myers and Halloween H20.