The one with the weird cult!

With Jamie and Michael kidnapped at the end of the previous film (yes, serial killer Michael Myers gets kidnapped) we discover that several years later Jamie has been forced to give birth to a child by a nefarious cult.

The biggest issue by far for the film is the cult, which we discover now control Michael using a silly magical rune and want to pass his power onto a child once he has killed the remainder of his family. Discovering that Michael can be controlled removes any threat and malice his character previously had. The cult has no backstory or reason to continue this curse except that they are evil.

To my surprise, this was also the first credited appearance in a film for Paul Rudd. A shame then, that his character is terribly written; a weird loner that at first seems to be evil and mysterious but then is just a regular guy who wants to help the Strode family. Rudd's performance is not exactly great, which probably explains why he never returned to this genre. The other usual teens for Michael to kill are present again here and, as per the last few films, are annoying and pretty awful.

The film is bad. Like silly and boring bad, but not even funny-bad. Just really bad. Who's idea was it to bring in a cult? 3/10.

(Thank god they ditched this timeline in the next film)