Hi, I'm Andy and I used to be a teacher in Bath ... but I'm not now. I want to be an astronaut when ...
Hi, I'm Andy and I used to be a teacher in Bath ... but I'm not now. I want to be an astronaut when I grow up and visit Mars. And I want Christina Ricci to knock on my door and say, "Hello, big boy, where have you been all my life."
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Well, Halloween 5 is not a bad film if you like horror stories, by any means. However, following on from the excellent Halloween 4, this is a disappointing sequel.
Jamie, Michael Myer's pre-teen niece who he attempted to dispose of in Halloween 4, is now in a children's home after her attempt to copy her uncle's exploits at the end of H4. However, Jamie is now back to being a 'mass murder isn't for me' sweet kid again. So naturally, Michael must rise from near death (after all he was shot by the police about 100 times at the end of the last film) to finish her off again. And of course, her step-sister who looked after Jamie so well in H4 must be killed at the beginning of H5 to create some shock effect.
As with H4, Danielle Harris as Jamie, steals the show as the only actor trying to convey genuine emotion. Her screaming just gets better and better, and she has so much practise in the film. Unfortunately, the film does not revolve around Jamie much, but instead goes for the stereotypical teenagers having sex and getting murdered in flagrante delicto, lots of screaming and disbelief, a Michael Myers who really does take his inability to be killed to absolute extremes, and mysterious characters who serve no real purpose in the film, except to make the premise of another sequel plausible.
Whilst the film is enjoyable in a brain-numbing style, it does not offer the tension of H4.
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Production Year: 2005 - Horror - Director: Jaume Collet-Serra - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki
Yeah I was pretty pissed of too that they killed off Rachel as she was a really sympathetic character - so that gets the movie off to a bad start add to that the Friday the 1th tone of the movie. As for Halloween 8, Smart Rich is right - apparently it's gonna be about a web broadcast from the Myers House and the guy in H20 was after all not Myers - oh dear. DanClegg
SmartRich 01.04.2001 15:03
It really was a dissapointing film wasn't it can't they just stop! I've been looking on some movie sites and aparently an 8th movie is due out this year - oh dear, I thought he had no head!
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Oct 14th, 2000
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