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The Halloween franchise is all the rage with the upcoming Halloween Kills only months away from being released. One of the more controversial films in the series is the sixth entry. When “Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers” was released in 1995, critics were not kind. In addition, many fans of the franchise weren’t too pleased either. However, after years of having an alternative cut on choppy VHS, an official Producer’s Cut was released in 2014.
Halloween 6: Producer’s Cut
Often in director’s or producer’s cuts of films, fans get slight tweaks. However, the Producer’s Cut of Halloween 6 delivers massive changes to Michael Myers’ fate and those around him. Here are 10 reasons why the Producer’s Cut gets the edge over what was seen in theaters.
Halloween 6: Spoilers Ahead
1) The Producer’s Cut follows the story arc of the Curse of Thorn closer than in the Theatrical Cut. The Curse of Thorn is the core of the plot for the story. The Theatrical Cut is edited poorly and hides important aspects of the story that leaves the end result confusing.
2) Sam Loomis in the Halloween 6 Producer’s Cut explains his plastic surgery for why his skin is no longer burnt. In the Theatrical Cut, that scene is removed, leaving a plot hole that makes little sense for why Loomis’ face looks undamaged.
3) Sam Loomis explains in the Producer’s Cut that he retired due to suffering a stroke. This explanation explains why he moves and talks slower, which is all omitted from the Theatrical Cut.
4) In the Producer’s Cut, we see multiple scenes with Kara talking to her son Danny. These scenes help create a mother-son bond between the two that is severely limited in the Theatrical Cut.
5) Jamie Lloyd dying in the hospital makes more sense in the Producer’s Cut. It gives a reason for why Sam Loomis is at the hospital in the first place where he sees Tommy Doyle. In the Theatrical Cut, Jamie dies in a barn resulting in Loomis just randomly showing up at the hospital without a valid reason.
Shifting Focus
6) The score in the Producer’s Cut is darker and more in line with the franchise. The Halloween themes accelerate the tone of the film as opposed to the generic mid-90s rock inserted into the Theatrical cut.
7) Michael Myers stalks Kara at school in the Halloween 6 Producer’s Cut. This small, but important scene is a throwback to the original film. It mirrors when Myers did the same to Laurie Strode. That’s also gone in the Theatrical Cut.
8) The opening narration in the Producer’s Cut is delivered by Sam Loomis. The Loomis narration feels more genuine than in the Theatrical which was given by Tommy Doyle.
Micheal Myers’ ending
9) The third act in the Producer’s Cut makes more sense in regards to the story itself. Tommy Doyle stops Michael Myers with the stone ruins, which some think is silly, but is in line with the plot. In the Theatrical Cut, Tommy kills Myers by smashing him with a pipe until green ooze comes out of his head.
10) The actual ending is also an improvement. In the Theatrical Cut, Sam Loomis dies off-screen while screaming. It’s a terrible way to kill off the most important hero of the franchise. In the Producer’s Cut, Loomis is left screaming as he is given the Curse of Thorn before Michael Myers walks off into the distance. Myers is shown to play everyone for a fool and revealing he actually can’t be controlled, despite what we all thought.
The Producer’s Cut has the reputation, precisely because fewer people have actually SEEN it. There is always a cache about things that are obscure. That’s why so many people claim to prefer The Burning over Friday the 13th…even non-horror fans have at least HEARD of Friday the 13th, while The Burning is far less known(I’d take even the weakest of the F13th series over The Burning). There’s very few things pretentious types love more than to be aware of things that others are not. The entire reason we HAVE the Theatrical Cut is because test audiences despised the Producer’s Cut with such severity. Neither is any good…BOTH rob Myers of his cryptic, enigmatic quality, making him more like muscle for a cult, and the Producer’s Cut has the added shame of dragging LOOMIS into all this Thorn nonsense…As I’ve said before, don’t fix what isn’t broken.