10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers (1995)

10. The Music Is Atrocious

If Halloween 5 saw Alan Howarth's concentration as a composer beginning to slip, then this film's soundtrack sees him completely and totally losing it.

After doing right by the franchise for decades, Howard completely loses his mind here and creates one of the most laughably awful scores imaginable. Gone are the keys of Carpenter's original score, gone are the airy synths of Howarth's earlier scores, replaced entirely with electric guitar.

This was a strange choice from the get-go, but in simply using the instrument to limply redo cuts like the Halloween Theme and The Shape Stalks, it comes off more like a parody than an actual attempt at a score.

To make matters worse, this film's soundtrack also sees Howarth laying on even more gratuitous 'false startle' effects. It's as though Howarth suddenly felt compelled to lay on the loud, metallic percussion every single time something happens on-screen. But rather than having the intended effect of unsettling, it's just mind-numbing by the ten-minute mark.

Considering that this is Howarth's last-ever turn at scoring a Halloween film, it is an incredible shame that it had to end on such a sour note. Sadly, this sense of remorse looms over a great many aspects of Halloween 6....