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

Michael Myers just isn't Michael Myers in this movie.

The entire appeal of Myers as a character has always been his role as a voyeur and just how unexplainable of a force of nature he is. Carpenter's script for the original film had Loomis describe him as "pure evil" and those two words alone are much more powerful than the entirety of the expository nonsense Farrand's script features here.

In trying to explain Michael as some sort of astrologically-powered, possessed being, it takes away everything that makes him Michael. So from a narrative perspective, there's that. But also, stuntman George P. Wilbur's performance as Michael is terrible.

Wilbur played the role previously in Halloween 4 and wasn't great there, but here is noticeably awful. Every movement he takes seems to be being captured on the fly, without a care in the world as to whether or not he's actually moving like Michael Myers. He never once comes close to tapping into the mystique of original actor Nick Castle's physicality. There's even a scene in the third act where he jogs down a hallway.

All of this adds up to a narrative and physical portrayal that undermines everything that made Michael Myers special in the first place.