They should've stopped with the first Halloween town
581941
The original Halloween town is the best. This one is slightly better than the second one but not much.
3483065
Two married musicians with a history of problems go to Salem for a Halloween gig and meet witches and demons.  I loved the other books of the series but this one was a real effort to get through.  I stuck it out til the end which improved once the Alliance characters arrived, but as a person who can read two to three books a day, this one killed my whole weekend.  I will continue to read the series as I hope this was a fluke.
4627752
The author should have stopped at the first book which was like reading a free fall of thoughts about bizarre characters.
1223158
This film was so bad that it hurt.  Unless you like watching 90 minutes of Rob's wife walking around in her living dead girl costume with a white horse for Michael to ride on, your going to hate it.

Where do I start?

- Myers looked like Frankenstein in a hoody.
- He didn't even wear the mask for more than half of the film.
- Where was Haddenfield in this movie? These films were suppose to take place in a middle class town.
- Everyone was dirty and down right disgusting. What was the deal with the Sheriff's house and the graffiti all over the inside?
- What happen to Laurie and her friends? They went from high school girls to suicide girls.
- Dr Loomis, a complete arrogant jerk who all of the sudden has a change of heart at the end. Wow that was original.
- The Halloween theme was no where to be found.
- Non-stop slow motion.
- Jumping from place to place to kill to kill for no apparent reason.
- Non stop dream sequences, including the first 25 minutes of the movie!  The longest dream sequence in film history.
- Ghosts holding down Laurie?  Yes I said it right, ghosts in a Halloween movie!
- Laurie saying "I love you brother" after Michael ruined her life and killed everyone she knew?
- Sweeping shots of Michael walking in fields.

What a disaster.  Let's just hope the series ends here.  And I thought Resurrection was bad, this made it look like the Godfather!
521545
Although the theatrical version of this film is very creepy and disturbing, it is arguably the worst in the series.  The story has too many plot holes and the idea of Thorn was stupid!  There is by far more gore in this movie than any other Halloween movie(except for the remake.)  Some major plot holes include not telling how Jamie had the baby, and the "Man in Black" having some kind of ceremony for Thorn and then later on in the movie it was practically ignored that he was ever associated with Thorn.  Director Joe Chappelle cut out 90% of Donald Pleasence's scenes which was stupid.  Loomis went from having a half hour's worth of time in the movie to five minutes worth.  The acting is decent.  Paul Rudd is a little over the top at times and Marianne Haigen is good until the chase scenes.  Her screams are just so fake when she is being chased by Michael.  I've seen the producers cut and although it's story is more complete, the theatrical cut is much creepier.  The theatrical cut's kills are much better and the last third of the movie with the operating room in the hospital is far creepier than the cult scenes in the producer's cut.  So, I can understand why Joe Chappelle wanted to reshoot half the movie, but some of the cut scenes are critical to the story.  So, if you're a big time fan of Halloween or horror in general, get this film, but if you only want the best of the best in horror, skip over this one.  It won't affect H20's(Halloween 7)story at all seeing as how this movie's presence was ignored in H20.
1955314
First of all, this game was really fun on the first game, this game got more repetitive and boring quickly.
4643890
Thank God H20 was released and saved this series, for a bit, because Halloween Cure of Michael Myers is the worse Halloween movie of the series. Halloween 5 was even better than this one. Although if you ignore the story and only watch Michael do his thing, he is quiet violent and should please slasher fans on that level. Other than this, the whole "Michael kills because of a cult," is way to cheesy. I think Jason Voorhees being brought back to life by lightening (Friday the 13th, part 6) was more serious than this. Blamming a cult is so clich, and has been done to many times.

So if you are a huge fan or the series, buy it for your collection. If you only like the first two, or the new ones, stay away from this one.
496237
I've tried looking at this movie from every angle: As part of the continuing series (or the conclusion of the series, since it IS the FINAL Friday) its just a bad, bad, cheesy, pathetic, lame, unjust, bad way to end the series. Jason had built up over the course of the last 7 movies (not counting&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Part-V/dp/B00005NG6D/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Part V</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Part-I/dp/B001K9OXDU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Part I</a>) and we've put up with a lot of stuff, as well as Jason himself has. But the storyline was just pathetic. The whole backstory of Jason going after his family is too much like a&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Halloween/dp/B00009UW0N/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Halloween</a>&nbsp;ripoff. It started in Crystal Lake and that's where it should have ended, like in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Part-VI/dp/B00005NG6E/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Part VI</a>. And Jason is only in the movie for 15 minutes! They owe us (and Jason) more than some pathetic storyline.

Even if you look at it as a seperate movie, outside of the series (like&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Jason-X/dp/B00006FI0R/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Jason X</a>&nbsp;&<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Freddy-vs-Jason/dp/B0000VCZMK/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Freddy vs. Jason</a>) it fails miserably as well. I just don't buy the doctor eating Jason's heart in the beginning, without any explanation as to why; a voiceover of Jason saying "eat me!" for example. And the concept of a Bounty Hunter going after Jason, knowing all of what he knows without any reasoning (a surviving member of Jason's rampage, perhaps) seems cheap as well.

The ONLY adding factor is that we learn who Jason's father is (Elias, stupid name I know), and that he had a sister; although that seems to be really pushing it and takes a lot to swallow. First we have to assume that Elias and Pamela split up after Jason was concieved, and that Elias knocked up someone else to give us Diana. Elias & Diana are NEVER mentioned in any of the other movies, so as far as we know they never existed, and probably should have stayed that way.

This movie was an abomination from beginning to end. It starts out in a familiar setting and then you're like, "what the f-ck is going on?" And you're doing that throughout the whole movie. Believe me, this is one movie you can pass on, whether you're a fan of the series or not. It's just plain bad!!
1802082
The first novel in the Barker-Llewelyn series, Some Danger Involved, had a very good atmosphere to it, but the mystery aspects left much to be desired.  That novel had the team involved with London's Jewish quarter.  To Kingdom Come pits the pair against Irish revolutionaries who are setting off bombs in London, one of which damages Barker's office.  Some Danger Involved kept the team in London, and it provided a very entertaining sense of time and place.  But the storytelling was not as strong as it should have been, and the mystery aspects were weak and unsatisfying.

To Kingdom Come takes Barker and Llewelyn away from London to Liverpool and nearby areas:  they are in disguise as bombmakers and join an Irish bombing group.  They are accepted by this group much more readily than would seem reasonable.  Barker and Llewelyn blow up a disused coastal lighthouse with spectacular effect.  This impresses the Irish group to be sure, but it seems that none of the locals or fishermen, etc, find anything at all suspicious in the disappearance and destruction of a familiar landmark.  The greater problem is that there is very little sense of time and place here--the blowing up of the lighthouse could be in the year 2005 rather than 1884 with only minor tweaks to the tale.  So without the sense of time and place that powered Some Danger Involved you get what is basically a quite pedestrian story.

As I was reading and enjoying Some Danger Involved, I bought To Kingdom Come and the next two books in the series.  But To Kingdom Come was rather a letdown after the first novel, and it may be a while before I continue on to The Limehouse Text.  Don't start the series here--start with Some Danger Involved.  That novel explains the pairing of Barker and Llewelyn, and it's better written.
1625873
Terrible considering the potential it had to actually be scary. I live in Fouke, Arkansas, the setting of the original "Legend of Boggy Creek". There is NO Boggy Creek, Texas. Not certain why they didn't follow more of the original movie instead of just playing off its name.
1729270
This remake should never have been made. Almost all the characters are unlikeable and Michael Myers (as in the Halloween remake) isn't scary, which makes the movie not scary.
1359618
When the series first started, I thought it was about time someone set about a serious look at this zombie phenomenon and what exactly that might look like in the long term. Everyone seems to focus on the first few days and this had promise. Season 1 was funny, clever, and somewhat realistic. People would be stupid, they wouldn't know how to deal with the new reality. But then season 2 came along and it became this running joke of "what you should NOT do in the apocalypse". Failure to set up protocols, properly think about sustainable resources, interacting with strangers etc. It became unintentionally amusing.

But now season six. Here we see magic. Magical bad guys. These people are so dedicated to being evil that they become two dimensional characters. Unbelievable evil spawning with people so DEDICATED to embodying that evil that they'll do anything to continue to be evil, including die for it. That seems to defeat the purpose, since the show just seems to be about the struggle of survival and how much of your humanity you're willing to give up for it.

Then come the hostage scenes. Oh jesus. I'm tired of seeing Rick's Crew be held hostage. They're ALWAYS being captured. It would be one thing if they had adapted and had started learning how to hold out small knives and stuff so they MEANT to be captured, but they don't. The drama is a cycle. Rick and his crew leave the walls, MAGIC BAD GUYS by the billions sneak up to right behind them and put a gun to their head. They NEVER hear them coming, even their hillbilly scout is routinely snuck up on, like watching Worf get beat up over and over again.

And the sheer number of this evil gang nation is ridiculous. They have the ability to block EVERY ROAD with increasingly more bad guys. Sacrifice men in an ambush where they just shoot at their feet, all for the purpose of breaking their spirit when all they needed to do was surround Alexandria with some of that big equipment and some of those MILIONS and MILLIONS of men they're somehow feeding by killing and raiding scavengers and small farms (logistic problem here). It all seems contrived to do nothing but humiliate and torture Rick's group.

If I'd been him, I'd have reacted to the situation that they'd been facing. The bad guys are numerous and somehow operate as if walkers didn't exist. They sneak around the woods looking for people they can bring into their fold or kill. We'd carry that RPG with us everywhere and those displays of force would be big explosions and body parts in seconds. If the enemy has the capacity to overrun us at any moment and kill every one of us or enslave us, then they'd better do it already because if they keep presenting me targets, I'm going to shoot them.

Instead it just seem to be a pissing contest with Rick, who eventually loses. So what's the theme of Walking dead? If the end comes, having any sense of humanity or justice is a sure way to be humiliated, beaten, enslaved and eventually killed. Oh, but being evil is somehow bad too. Even though the obvious paradox of being ruthless and evil that has played itself out throughout history is somehow not present here. No infighting, no devastating civil war as evil guy one and two duke it out for control of said evil empire, just a unified front of evil people willing to die to be evil rather than change their ways and live. Highly organized and high functioning bad guys in a world gone mad.

And what about the zombies? They're a backdrop. Sure, you COULD have a show about how zombies make it harder to farm, get clean water, get supplies, or even be MORE creative and move past zombies to something else, but instead we're left with making humans magical and teleporting them around in front of the "good guys" until... I don't know, it's thematically acceptable for them to jump out and yell "boo"???
2971807
It takes to long for the game to get off of the round, I think there needed to be more voice acting when roaming around the town " And the normal voice acting during the cut seens sucks, the things they say and how they say them seems cheesy a lot of the times", the dreams that you read through are fun to read but mean nothing in the story line of the game you don't even have to read them they give you no upper hand for events to come just good reading. During most of the game which I haven't finished because I keep falling asleep during the boring game play between the crappy cut seens is just that boring there is no spice in this game the story line is good but the game play just takes away from the excitement of what is going to happen next.
2044234
I am a fan of the original Halloween movies. Rob Zombie did an alright job of remaking the movie, but it is missing the creativity of the originals.
4607653
I am a fan of the original series. I was really excited to see how Burton and Depp treated this as fans. But it was obvious from the get that they were trying too hard to make it their own and they just couldn't decide if they were going to go with comedy or camp. I would have enjoyed a really dark campy movie that would have bitten off the first say two to three seasons of Dark Shadows. They're eyes were too big and they over-extended themselves. Not to mention that their attempts at comedy and camp just ended up looking like bad writing and over production. I was not impressed. I did like Depp's look. That's one star and another star for including Alice Cooper (I won't spoil the surprise). But everything else is just blah.
1636489
HALLOWEEN 2 is a unique film in many ways, because it picks up the chain of events of the original HALLOWEEN basically right at the end of that film and continues them.  Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance are back, with the masked figure known as Michael Myers still stalking the streets of Haddonfield.  This time, much of the murderous mayhem is centered around the local clinic where Curtis has been hospitalized...and here it is revealed exactly why the madman is targeting her.
Because Michael Myers couldn't even be stopped by Pleasance's gun at the end of HALLOWEEN 1, this sequel may actually have been necessary.  And certainly for the most part, director Rick Rosenthal, helped by ace cinematographer Dean Cundey (who later shot JURASSIC PARK and APOLLO 13), keeps his focus on suspense, in the tradition of the original.
But something sure went wrong when it was finished.  Reportedly, feeling that this suspenseful emphasis might make HALLOWEEN 2 look old-fashioned in light of such HALLOWEEN-inspired imitators such as FRIDAY THE 13TH, Carpenter (who was only co-producer/co-writer this time, along with Debra Hill) went back in (without Rosenthal's knowledge) and shot some graphically gory murder inserts.  This is really a shame!  The sequel may have been necessary, but the explicit violence and gore weren't!
This makes HALLOWEEN 2, for me, a curiously disappointing film.  Had Carpenter not tinkered with Rosenthal's methods by trying to liven up things with a bunch of unnecessarily gory murders, this could have equalled the original.  Instead, it's not much better than HALLOWEEN's many imitators.
2482219
I am a huge Halloween fan and I wanted so much to like this movie. Much like Rob Zombie's first Halloween, it was not meant to be. Unlike Zombie's first, which is at least somewhat decent, this film is ridiculously awful. This movie is a train wreck from start to finish, and I hope it solidifies the nail in the coffin of Rob Zombies destruction of the Halloween franchise. Do yourself a favor and stick to the original Halloweens.