I suppose the theme of this year could be "and this is when the wheels fall off". Picking up when part 5 ended, Michael Myers escaped police custody after slaughtering all the cops in Haddonfield with the help of a Man in Black, making sure to take his niece Jamie Lloyd with him.
Jamie (JC Brandy) flees from a cult with the help of her midwife. She's just given birth, but she still manages to steal a truck as the midwife is killed by Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur). She hides the baby and tries to warn Haddonfield by calling radio dj Barry Simms (Leo Geter), who thinks the whole thing is a joke.
Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is now happily retired, but his old friend and head of Smith's Grove Sanitarium Dr. Wynn (Mitchell Ryan) has a request. He needs him for a special project, you see, and Loomis is the best man for the job.
Jamie gets killed by Michael, but the baby is found by Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd), who's been studying Myers ever since that night in 1978. After a bunch of killing, it's revealed that Michael has been cursed. The Man in Black is actually Dr. Wynn, and he leads a cult of druids, but he's also been working against them too.
Yes, it seems Michael has the curse of Thorn, which compels him to murder his family. Wynn wants to study this and harness it, and to that end he needs Loomis. The cult, on the other hand, wants to pass the curse onto a new family, and picks Danny Strode (Devin Gardner), who's family is both related to the Strodes and was living in Myers's house. Things come to a head.
Honestly terrible. The revel is a bit silly, and the going back to the well just diminishes the overall story. Did we really need a motive for Michael? The producer's cut is a bit different, and I considered reviewing it separately, but that might be a review for later. Donald Pleasence, who passed away shortly after the film was released, gives it his best, but the film does him no favors.
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