10 Horror Movies Where The Reshoots Were Obvious

The sixth Halloween movie is generally agreed to be one of the very worst in the original chronology - a desperate attempt to rejuvenate Michael Myers by explaining that he was driven to kill by a cult's curse placed upon him. Yep.

The film was shot in late 1994 and met with disastrous test screenings, which prompted the studio to push on with reshoots to amp up both the gore and hasten the pacing of the plot.

This resulted in most of Sam Loomis' (Donald Pleasence) scenes being left on the cutting room floor as they were the ones the studio believed would bore audiences.

But given that Loomis is almost as much an icon of the series as Michael or Laurie Strode, and actor Pleasence died shortly after principal photography wrapped, his pared-down presence ensured the film left a pungent, suspicious stink.

This was compounded by a number of blatant continuity errors in the third act of the film, because the studio decided to have A. Michael Lerner replace George P. Wilbur as Michael, preferring his slimmer build.

But because they didn't go back and reshoot every scene with Michael, he simply looks distinctly more svelte in the finale.

The entire film is a rickety mess of uneven continuity and characters coming and going at the whim of the editor's knife, and even fans without much knowledge of how movies are made will surely appreciate that something is off.