Happy New Years Day guys and I wish you all a happy New Year. I recently made a comment on the F13 Community boards today answering the three questions about this movie I tried to piece together that I started the thread out with. I wanted to share my answers that finally give me closure to this movie which is copy-and-pasted entirely from F13 Community to save me having to rewrite things here. The three questions were ones that really stumped me for sometime, especially when it came to Steven’s conception and the Danny subplot. But I have to tell you, after running through some threads on OHMB once again on H6, I came across an old comment of mine regarding Danny’s role that pretty much lit a light-bulb in my head on what I had to say on behalf of it. Now I want to start off with a serious break down of these situations on behalf of questions that rise in them to get a clear understanding of what is the case here. Then I’ll leave off the big left-over questions for when I do write out my big detail explanation summary afterwards I feel will finally tie all the holes of this movie that doesn’t require much over thinking beyond the movie’s scope here. So bare with me because you’re in it for a long reading.
SITUATION 1: STEVEN’S CONCEPTION
To go in order here, let’s start with the Steven issue. Well in the P-Cut, which had a different outcome for the ending, we learn that Michael is the father through a flashback of Jamie’s and Kara’s line at the end to indicate this. In the T-Cut however, these two things have been omitted, but Jamie’s line from the cut flashback sequence “Uncle Michael, please don’t hurt me!” before Michael is forced upon her still come into play at the start of the movie along with shots of Jamie’s flashback that appear in a quick flash-cut sequence at the start of the movie. That gives people the impression that Michael raped her considering we then transition to her being pregnant and ready to give birth. Plus it seems rather off that Chappelle would choose these specific shots from Jamie’s flashback (including a shot of her tied to the altar) to include here. Plus, we have Mary trying to save the baby from being killed apparently like in the P-Cut, and the baby still being marked in blood of the Thorn symbol in the ceremonial chamber room by I’m guessing Dr. Wynn. These are reasons to assume Michael had indeed still raped Jamie as established in the P-Cut.
Now what contradicts the thought of Michael being the father of the movie is during the last act of the movie where we transition to the Smith’s Grove setting. We learn that apparently, Dr. Wynn and some staff members have been doing some genetic testing and we see a tank of stillborn fetuses held in a lab room. Around them we see microscopes which now gives us an impression that perhaps the baby was a product of an experiment. Plus during the office scene between Wynn and Loomis, Wynn speaks of failures and Steven was a success from that. While he doesn’t flat out state he’s been cloning Michael, it only makes sense if such experiments were involved here for Wynn to have many failures in. Plus if Wynn is truly trying to replicate evil, he would have to clone Michael. A clone would be a replicate. With Michael raping women to conceive a child the natural way, while some of the evil genes can be passed on, not all of them would and Wynn would likely want the child to have 100% evil genes. Perhaps Jamie’s line in the opening was suppose to be looked at differently. Even in the P-Cut, Jamie seems to say it on behalf of thinking Michael was set to kill her. I doubt she knew he was going to rape her. So it seems Steven was meant to be the result of a cloning experiment.
But if that’s the case then why was he still marked in blood of the Thorn symbol in the ceremonial chamber room? Why was Jamie forced to give birth in the dungeons of Smith’s Grove? Why was Nurse Mary trying to save it as though it was going to be killed when it wasn’t? This will be explained soon.
SITUATION 2: THE NEED FOR DANNY
Now this was perhaps the biggest confusing plot point of the movie since it starts out with this build-up and then by the last act it seems to go nowhere. Danny is this six year old kid who is hearing voices telling him to kill, and is basically the next child to be influenced under the Thorn curse. Considering what the motives are with Wynn and the staff, it rather conflicts with their need for Danny. Wynn has been interested in replicating Michael Myers through apparent cloning experiments to produce a baby. In the P-Cut, Tommy reveals to Kara that after Michael killed all of his family, the curse would pass onto another child. This dialogue has been cut however, but Tommy still makes a comment on behalf of the baby being the final sacrifice and later on with Mrs. Blankenship’s statement, the impression that Danny is set to take over killing after Michael killed the baby. In the P-Cut when Wynn kidnaps Danny and Kara along with the baby and Michael, Michael is set to kill the baby and Danny is set to kill his mother. However in the T-Cut, Wynn had no intentions of killing the baby since the baby was the embodiment of evil from birth. When he kidnaps Danny and Kara, Kara is thrown into a room while Danny is seated next to an operating room. We never know of their use for Wynn and it’s just left up in the air.
Now people have assumed that Wynn kidnapped Danny because of a negative energy in the house that’s taking over him, and Wynn is interested of toying with his DNA like he did with Michael’s. This impression leaves us with the idea that the “Cult of Thorn” had nothing to do with Michael becoming evil and he simply became evil, and this same negative energy was working it’s way into Danny. It also gives us the impression that Michael isn’t even under the Thorn curse. Funny, because even Dan Farrands speak of some negative energy around the house that’s having an impact on Danny in a voice-over interview he done a few years ago. Then of course there’s Wynn’s line to Loomis at the end where tells him in reference to Michael’s evil: “You were the first one to see it, and you’ve recognized it’s power!” and which gave people the impression that the cult had nothing to do with Michael being evil. Finally there is Wynn’s line to the guy in the cult robe later on where he says: “You can take that off now, Halloween is over!” which got people thinking perhaps they weren’t a real cult.
Well, there are just somethings wrong here with those things. First off, the movie doesn’t indicate anything about a dark energy inhabiting the house. Wynn would have no reason to toy with his DNA when he already had Michael, an evil being in his possession and has already been toying with his DNA. Second, we clearly see Danny being tormented and slowly turning into Michael because of Dr. Wynn just like in the P-Cut. We see him as the MIB communicating with Danny here from the beginning and stalking him. The impression is that he and the cult were going to turn him evil just like they did with Michael. I mean, they wouldn’t be taunting him and bring him under the influence of Thorn if they had nothing to do with Michael being evil as well. He even has the symbol on his wrist. Mrs. Blankenship’s back story about Michael even informs us that he was once a normal boy but like Danny, he heard voices that told him to kill and he successfully committed an act of murder. Afterwards he was committed to Smith’s Grove and became a superhuman person cursed under a magic spell. We’re left under the impression that Danny was to become like Michael since he was a normal six year old kid undergoing the same thing Michael went through. So it’s clear that Michael became evil because of the Cult of Thorn as they wouldn’t later be taunting Danny. So Wynn’s line to Loomis wasn’t a statement indicating the cult had nothing to do with his evil, but rather Loomis was the first one to see it take effect.
The T-Cut doesn’t show us that the cult thing was entirely fake since have people like the cult members we see at the beginning of the movie in the ceremonial chambers and Mrs. Blankenship, who is associated with Dr. Wynn and his crew since she knows the back story on Michael, the situation with Danny, helps steal the baby towards the end, and with her living across the street from the Myers house likely tipped the cult on using Michael and Danny as their victims to carry out their deeds. We have to take into account here that are still real members shown in the T-Cut that weren’t part of Wynn’s genetic/science fiasco, so Wynn’s line to the guy in the cult robe at the end was simply to keep the cult’s cover. He turns to the others in a way that clearly shows he wanted them to think the staff member was just wearing his robe in honor of Halloween. He’s not revealing the whole cult thing was a sham, but simply trying to keep cover. So it’s clear that all of those doctors aren’t even associated with the cult besides the guy in the robe, Wynn, Bonham, and possibly the guy standing across from the other doctors that makes the statements: “Well how do you know it’s reliable?”, “Why do you perceive this to be such a breakthrough?”, and “Terence, I want to talk to you about this procedure.” There’s more on him I say in the third part below so I’ll refer to him as Dr. Doe. But anyway, the other doctors were just normal doctors prepping for a medical procedure.
So how does Danny’s role tie in with Wynn’s motive? Why was Kara locked in a room? And since the cult is pretty much real, besides Wynn, Bonham, and the guy in the robe who are clearly associated with the cult, where do the other doctors stand outside the operating room? Are they even staff members at the Sanitarium? This will be explained soon.
SITUATION 3: THE GENETIC EXPERIMENT
Now during this part of the movie, we learn that genetic experimentation has been going around Smith’s Grove and it’s rather indicated Michael’s DNA has been worked with here. The experiment we see happening inside the operating room is revealed to be a scientific breakthrough procedure. Before Wynn arrives with Dr. Bonham, the non-cultist doctors talk about how unique the DNA strand they’ve been working with is to the guy in the robe and Dr. Doe. It’s clear Dr. Doe is a cult member just by the way he questions the other doctors on their discovery and he didn’t seem too surprised himself. If he’s associated with the cult member that’s involved in the making of evil then why would he be? He would know what type of person Michael is. The other doctors talk about the DNA value is shown to be high on the genetic scale, and feel that it will lead to a breakthrough. In the D-Cut there’s dialogue that reveal that they feel they can make a genetic cure. Now I’ve always been wondering how exactly this tied to an evil deed on Wynn’s behalf since Wynn is involved. One would think there just had to be something evil about this experiment considering they’re working with Michael’s DNA here. Well the thing is, there was no evil deed going on here and meant to be a breakthrough cure just as established. One thing for sure is, Danny and the baby weren’t involved in it.
So I’m guessing the question to leave off with this is what is the importance of this experiment to be displayed? Why is Wynn and three other cult members involved in it? Well prepare yourselves for what is about to come next because the questions from all three parts will now be answered in another epic summary of mine that will reference the previous movies into this as well.
So now in a nice summary and answering all of the questions I left behind above neatly displayed in a quote box, the story of Halloween 6 works like this:
Michael Myers was brought under the influence of the Thorn cult that resides it’s headquarters at Smith’s Grove. They cursed him and made him want to target his family. Before being inflicted with the curse he was successfully taunted into killing a family member, his sister Judith in 1963. The cult leader at this time I’ll say was some one else. Wynn was part of it, but was a bit skeptical of the cult actually cursing Michael.
The cult members inflict the curse on Michael and wait to see if anything would take effect. Loomis is sent to be his psychiatrist and had time to discover a negative influence in Michael and bragged about this to his colleagues, some of which were cult members, who were pleased that their ritual had worked.
By 1978, Michael tried to go after his other sister Laurie but failed to kill her and gets caught in an explosion. Ten years later he is to be sent back to Smith’s Grove after spending that time in a coma. He escapes his transfer and goes after his niece Jamie. He fails to kill her as well as in the following year and both of them are captured by the MIB who turns out to be the new cult leader and head of Smith’s Grove, Dr. Wynn.
By 1995, the cult wanted to recruit another child to inherit the curse since they felt it was time Michael finished off his duties. However, his final sacrifice had to be a child of innocent blood so it had to be a baby. Jamie is impregnated and months later, the cult found their new child, Danny, to recruit with the help of Mrs. Blankenship who was living across the street from him. He is then taunted by Dr. Wynn. Since Jamie’s baby is seen by all the cult members as Michael’s final sacrifice, Jamie is carried down to the dungeons where the cult’s headquarters are where she gives birth. While there are cult members around, Wynn had to take the baby into the ceremonial room and mark it with the Thorn symbol in blood in symbolic fashion to signify it’s role being Michael’s final sacrifice.
In the end it turns out the cult leader Dr. Wynn has been trying to clone Michael to produce an evil being from birth as well as exploiting Michael’s evil for medical purposes. He never intended to recruit a child to inherit the curse. He wanted to have control over Michael for a long time to come along with the clones he made off of him. He taunted Danny to please the cult members that weren’t aware of his own agenda, while he received help in his achievements from just a handful of members considering he was performing an evil deed after all. Jamie’s baby wouldn’t be Michael’s final sacrifice since the baby is actually one of Wynn’s experiments that successfully lived to birth. Most of the cult members who didn’t know of Wynn’s cloning tactics wouldn’t know that, which is why Nurse Mary tried to have Jamie escape with it, thinking it was going to be killed.
Later on, besides Wynn trying to replicate evil through genetic experiments using Michael’s DNA, he was also willing to go about his way exploiting Michael’s evil for medical purposes after a group of non-cultists approached him on behalf of working with Michael’s DNA they somehow came across (but not knowing where it was from), and felt a breakthrough could be made from it. Besides Wynn working with Michael’s DNA here, he also wanted help from three cult members who have probably been the ones helping him in the cloning experiments. Since they had already worked with Michael’s DNA in the experiments, why wouldn’t they share a hand in working with it this time for a medical breakthrough procedure? Then Michael comes to butcher them all, probably upset with the fact that his evil is being exploited.
Of course at the time of the experiment, Danny, Steven, Michael, and Kara would be put to no use at this time and even though Wynn taunted Danny to please the cult members who weren’t aware of his cloning agenda and brought him and his mother to Smith’s Grove to be his first sacrifice, he couldn’t keep his secret any longer considering Michael wasn’t going to kill the baby and be relinquished from the curse in order for him to keep around and still have control over. Obviously Wynn had to tell the other cult members the truth, but how were they going to get around inflicting Danny with the curse if Michael wasn’t going to be relinquished from his? Well, notice that Tommy’s line to Kara in the P-Cut on behalf of Michael’s power needing to end in order for it to be passed onto another child not being featured in the T-Cut.
So now we can assume that the cult could still inflict a child with the curse while some one else was still under it. So while Wynn would have to tell the other cult members about his actions and accomplishing what he wanted on behalf of having evil Michael around and a clone of him, the cult will still have what they wanted on behalf of Danny inheriting the curse to carry out a new trend of sacrifices in their favor. So Kara is locked in a room in the meantime until she is killed by Danny after he’s inflicted with the curse.
So there you have it, Halloween 6 explained and all the holes tied up. What do you guys think? I finally have the closure on this movie I have been waiting for all along. But for the most part, I’m happy that I was also to make ends meet on the Danny subplot thanks to me coming across an old comment of my on OHMB I wish I haven’t forgotten.
