Six years after the events of part five the town of Haddonfield finds itself besieged again by invincible killer Michael Myers who this time is slaughtering anyone who gets in the way in order to get the newborn baby of his niece (who he knocked-off nicely during the cool "farm machine" moment) with Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence, who's wasted and disappears for most of the last third), Marianne Hagan who's moved into the Myers house and who's young son has visions and Myers expert Paul Stephen Rudd (playing Tommy the young boy Jamie Lee Curtis' character was babysitting in the original) out to stop him.

There's certainly a killer first twenty minutes in this sixth entry to the series with lots of great eerie mood, a bunch of cool deaths and even some satire (supplied by a radio show playing in the background at times). The problem with this follow-up despite it being directed with decent style by Joe Chappelle, having plentiful grue and even managing some suspense is the heavy-handed scripting by Daniel Farrands which gets totally ridiculous in the finale (yeah it's a Myers worshipping cult out to clone him...yeah, right) and never really feels like it belongs in the whole Halloween backstory.

As is it's an acceptable follow-up that plays better than parts five and three despite its obvious plotting problems. Apparently a "Producer's Cut" exists which makes more sense.

Followed by Halloween:20 Years Later.

Directed By: Joe Chappelle.
Written By: Daniel Farrands.

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Stephen Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Kim Darby.