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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Visit Lovely Haddonfield
Review: Beginning with H20, the Halloween series now completely ignores the events of Halloween 4, 5, and the Curse of Michael Myers, so these films fall into limbo.

Since they couldn't get Jamie Lee Curtis to commit to the middle films, they tried to follow the story of Michael killing off members of his family. Halloween 4 is the best of the bunch, 5 is a step down, and the whole house collapsed with the appalling Curse of Michael Myers.

The redeeming features of 4 and 5 are clearly Donald Pleasance and Danielle Harris. Pleasance is totally game as the obsessed Dr. Loomis, and indeed, in this version he seems ready for the loony bin himself as Michael Myers once again returns from death to stalk the hapless citizens of Haddonfield. If you recall, Michael was hit by a truck and shot about 100 times at the end of 4, but nothing can stop Halloween financier Mustapha Akkad from resurrecting his favorite son for some more trick or treating. You'll also recall a bold move at the end of 4 to send the series on a different path and make Michael's niece Jamie take over the family business of butchering. Once again, the producers went safe and dropped that idea, preferring to let Mike do the slaughtering.

Danielle Harris once again plays Jamie (the daughter of Jamie Lee's character). She gives an impressive performance for a child actor in this one and is completely convincing as a terrorized 11 year-old that is now psychically linked with Michael. I also liked the completely inept and moronic cops who exist to, well, die. A shame they kill of Ellie Cornell, but the laws of slasherdom state that survivors of the previous film generally must die in the next installment just to show that like an elephant, Michael (or Jason, or Freddy) never forgets.

The ideas are definitely there, and people are game, but the execution is so-so. The look of the film is good--it has a real Halloween, autumn feel to it and was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah. There is a subplot involving a mysterious man who is following the action and makes for an ultra violent ending. (He and Michael share strange symbolic markings.) By the end of 5 we get the bizarre image of Michael in a jail cell (with the mask still on!) before we get the cliffhanger ending. Sad that it would take six years for a sequel to explain what happened. The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) is terrible, an example of trying to over engineer a slasher series to embarrassing ends. The score is by Alan Howarth and is not as good as the subtle soundscapes he contributed to 4, but he tries to inject some life into the famous themes and cues.

Part 5 is weaker than Part 4 and boils down to pretty much by-the-numbers slasher material, done with a bit more style and with some good acting. Once again, it seems that they can't get the Michael Myers mask right, and this version is terrible. Perhaps they try something different every time, but really, can they not just get a decent reproduction of the masks in Part I or II?

I like the approach they took on with H20 and Resurrection, but these middle parts have Loomis, whose obsession and pronouncements of 'pure evil' define Michael as much as the mask and the kitchen knife.

Definitely far from the series' finest hour, but recommended for die-hard fans, of course. The DVD now includes a short making of featurette as well.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Shall we go on any farther?
Review: Is there really a reason to continues this nonsense? They should have stopped after the first one.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I'm confused.
Review: "Halloween 5 - Revenge of Michael Myers" starts where "Part 4" left off, for a few minutes. The plot is Michael begins stalking his niece Jamie again. But now they share a psycic link. Very little in this movie makes any since. Why would anyone take Myers in? Why wouldn't they call the cops, or at least bury him if he seemed dead. Why did the sister seem so important, and then completly forgotten when she was killed. Why dose the sister's best friend take such an important place in Jamie's life? Who in there right mind would let Dr. Lomis run an institution for disturbed kids with his eccentricties? Who is this Man in Black and what dose he want with Michael? How did this link between Jamie and Michael happen? And these two cops are so dumb, why did they even bother with them. But for all it's failures, it is at least well polished movie, even if there isn't a lot of suspense, and it is still better than "Part 3". It's ok, even if it's basicly identicle to "Part 4".

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: best of the sequels
Review: after the clifanger in p.4 michales back and his niece has a psychic link to him michal goes after his poor niece again while some of rachels friends visit jamie soon michal stalks jamies loved ones he strts by killing off poor nice girl rachel then michal goes after her friends the films pretty suspensful and the musics great and a great clifhanging and unopredictable ending

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: THIS MOVIE SUCKS
Review: A DISCRACE TO THE HALLOWEEN LEGACY. THIS SERIES SHOULD HAVE ENDED AT 2. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THE CREATOR'S OF THIS MOVIE. QUIT EXPLOITING JOHN CARPENTER'S MASTERPIECE FOR MONEY. THIS MOVIE IS BORING, NOT SCARRY, AND GORY AS HELL. GOOD NAKED SCENES THOUGH.....WHAT? I'M A GUY AREN'T I?

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: DECENT!!!
Review: Story: Michael has come back to kill his little niece again!!! We start with Rachel (From pt 4) who's parents adopted Jamie in pt 4. Anyway Rachel gets killed off early on! To Bad! Jamie is in this hospital trying to get over what had happened a year ago. Michael shows up again and there is a line of teens just waiting to get slaughtered!

Maybe this one is the weakest in the series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Halloween 5 is a good film
Review: I wont go into the plot coz i'm sure you already know it by now but I do have a message for the people who don't like this film: Get off Halloween 5's back. It is a decent sequel, ok so the teenage characters were annoying, the plot was cluttered and the Myers house had changed but you still have Michael stalking and slashing people and at the end of the day isn't that the whole point of watching the Halloween films?

This is the fifth film in the series so it was never going to live up to the original so people should stop comparing this to the first one and just accept it for what it is: a decent sequel.

In fact I enjoyed this film more than the original, don't get me wrong, I know 'Halloween' is a classic but personally I think it was less enjoyable than the sequels.

Anyway, at least there are true fans of the series out there, like me, and I thank you all for defending Halloween 5 as it is not as bad as most people are saying.

Michael rules!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: hALLOWEEN 5
Review: horriabal an embassement to the halloween series

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!
Review: THIS MOVIE IS TERRIBLE. MICHAEL MYERS AINT JASON VORHEES, HE IS A KNIFE WIELDING FREAK THEY MAKE HIM USE HUGE AXES CMON HE USES KNIFES. AND WHO IS THAT GUY DRESSED IN BLACK ITS STUPID. THE ENDING WAS TERRIBLE, WHAT AM I SAYING THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS TERRIBLE.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great dark movie
Review: I love the scene where Dr. Lomis is talking to Michael in the woods about his rage It was a very dark scene the music was perfect. A great dark movie the whole movie was perfect. A lot of people say the mask was messed up the only thing messed up about it to me was the hair.


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