10 Horror Movie Reveals So Bad You Almost Walked Out

9. The Cult Of Thorn - Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers

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This title could apply to numerous films in the Halloween franchise, but most fans' patience truly ran out by the time the sixth movie, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, was released.

After the fifth film ended with Michael being sprung from prison by a mysterious man in black, Halloween 6 leapt forward six years to reveal that Michael (George P. Wilbur) was abducted by a cult called the Cult of Thorn.

The cult are also revealed to be behind Michael's compulsion to kill, having given him a curse - the Curse of Thorn - which compels him to hunt down and kill his family members on Halloween night.

It's head-smacking stupid stuff, and precisely what you get when a horror franchise runs out of ideas but feels weirdly obliged to explain its monster's origins.

And yet, wasn't the beauty of the original Halloween that Michael was an unexplained merchant of death? By demystifying him and doing so in such a profoundly idiotic way, this was tantamount to character assassination.

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