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

The most depressing thing about Halloween 6 is that it is Donald Pleasence's final film, as he died shortly after principal photography wrapped, and that the film has absolutely no idea what to do with his character.

Pleasence has less screen time here than he's ever had before, only actually appearing on-screen for less than seven minutes. And when he is on-screen, he's woefully misused. He and Michael are never even in the same scene in this film, he doesn't get to actually do much of anything other than wandering aimlessly around the actual plot, and the third act literally just knocks him out so that it doesn't have to write him into the action.

And while it would be easy to chalk this up to the late-in-the-game reshoots after his death, this writer has seen the Producer's Cut and it handles him the exact same way.

This all the more heartbreaking because despite all of this mistreatment, Pleasence continues to give a great performance here. His introduction is little more than a poorly written joke, but Pleasence f***ing sells it, embodying the brief scene with the warmth of a retired Loomis.

The fact that such an abysmal entry will always be remembered as the swan song for both Loomis and Pleasence himself is a tragedy.