‘Halloween 6’ definitely no treat
By Gerry Beltz
Rim Critic "
Like all other things in life, being a
film critic has its pluses and minuses.
And one of those minuses has to be
r—---“Halloween 6: The
M0VI6 Curse of Michael
Dow Myers.”
Kev Plot? Plot??
Like it’s changed
from the last “Hal
loween flick/!/
Michael chases
people, people
scream, Michael
kills. Lather.
--Rinse. Repeat.
Loosely fitted around this is a baby
who is supposedly Michael’s last re
maining relative, whom he is required
to kill to complete an ancient Celtic
ritual, of whicn Michael is an integral
part.
No, I’mnot kidding. Really! Could
I make this up?
John Carpenter, who directed the
original “Halloween,” may currently
be in the proverbial toilet for his latest
attempts at cinema (“In The Mouth of
Madness,” “Village of the Damned”),
but this piece of drivel makes them all
shine in comparison.
Every cinematic “make-the-audi
ence-jump-for-nothing” trick is
brought out to play in this odious
piece of crap. TTiere have been life
insurance seminars with more sus
pense, and bank commercials with
better acting than “Halloween 6.”
Donald Pleasance once again shows
up as Dr. Loomis, the only man ca
pable of understanding the evil
Michael truly possesses within his soul.
Pleasance died soon after the film was
completed.
Also appearing are Mitchell Ryan
(“Lethal Weapon”) as Dr. Loomis’
partner, Dr. Wynn, and Kim Darby
(“True Grit”) as a timid housewife
who is one of the first to face the wrath
of Michael Myers.
Yawn. Ho-hum. Snore.
At the screening I attended, every
Movie: “Halloween 6: The
Curse of Michael Myers”
Stars: Donald Pleasance,
Mitchell Ryan, Kim Darby
Director: Joe Chapele
Rating: R
Grade: F- (I’d go lower if I
could)
Five Words: Horror sequel
blows big chunks
body was getting hyped up about
Michael’s mask finally being taken
off, but why would anyone want to see
that? This guy has been stabbed, shot,
sliced and burned... and that was just
by the critics!
1 This movie has no horror, no sus
pense, no plot, and it’s just plain stu
pid and pointless.
-I Music Review^
“The Brooklyn Side”
The Bottle Rockets
TAG Records
Grade: D
The Bottle Rockets are just like
their namesake firecrackers: some
times they fire off beautifully, but
mostly they either shoot where you
don’t want them to or just fizzle out
and die. The group’s new album,
“The Brooklyn Side” probably
should’ve stayed that side of Brook
lyn.
As the album opens, the thought
runs through your head that maybe
this is a blues album as “Welfare
Music” hits you. One acoustic gui
tar played well in an acoustic blues
style adds to the image of four guys
playing on a street comer with an
open guitar case, hoping for loose
change. « ■«, «
“Gravity Fails,” the second track,
changes into a much more rock
oriented feel and you begin to get
lost. “I’ll Be Cornin’ Around” puts
the rock somewhere in between
blues and rock. At this point, the
album could be salvaged, because
these three songs have some merit
to them.
Once “Radar Gun” begins to
play, it spells the beginning of the
end. A weak attempt to create a
Bruce Springsteen song with a dead
guitar keeping a beat as well as
some tough guy vocals, “Radar
Gun” almost puts too much diver
sity on the album, leaving it with no
consistency.
“Sunday Sports” could be a bad
demo tape from the Screaming
Trees, like a song from very early in
their career and hopefully some
thing they’ve forgotten. The drums
are flat, the bass is virtually inau
dible and the whole thing is like a
.badquiche. % % / -
“Pot of Gold” signals for a mo
ment that there could be hope for
this band, as it bears similarity to
“Welfare Music” with more blue
blues and an electric guitar. This is
the type of music that should have
filled “The Brooklyn Side.”
“ 1000 Dollar Car” gives up hope
and returns to the weak grunge/
blues approach similar to the one
the group takes on “Sunday Sports”
and while the drums are full this
time, it’s not a great song, and the
melody lacks luster. Not bad, but
not great.
What’s worse is that it can go
even farther down, something that
shouldn’t be possible. “Idiot’s Re
venge” is an attempt to be an alter
native country song, ;.nd it practi
cally waves a red flag in your face,
jumping up and down, screaming
“Hi! We’re trying to play every
thing so you have to like SOME
THING!”
And then, bizarrely enough, they
do another song similar to the last
one they played. “Young Lovers In
Town” is a country song, which is
the complete opposite from where
the band headed with “Gravity
Fails.”
At least, you’re thinking at this
point, they settled on something.
Uh-uh. “Take Me To The Bank” is
a wannabe Chuck Berry song
(“Johnny B. Goode” maybe?) and
we completely leave behind what
has been done before, in typical
Bottle Rockets fashion.
- Next comes a depressing song -
that desperately cries out for a har
monica, “What More Can I Do?”
Someone wrote this in a bar some
where, half drunk, dealing with a
bottle of liquor and a guitar.
Nothing is continuous at all;
“Stuck In a Rut” is another grungy
blues tune, “I Wanna Come Home”
tries the pop approach, and “Queen
of the World” is a folk song delving
into country roots.
With all of these influences, one
would hope they could all be com
bined into one definitive sound that
the band could call its own, but The
Bottle Rockets lack any sense of
continuity, personal flair or origi
nality. — Cliff Hicks
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