Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers (DVD)

Halloween 5 was the Halloween movie that could have redefined the Halloween franchise. After the twist ending that Halloween 4 provided the film could have steered onto a bold new path and delivered a new vibe and energy into the series. However despite everything being set up for them the filmmakers chickened out and therefore Halloween 5 does not turn out to be the possible turnaround for the series but an instalment that seems uninspired and rushed, ...
...year after Halloween 4 in 1989. Many fans of the series will, when talking about bad sequels to the series, apart from mentioning Season of the Witch (it seems obligatory to say that) will also say Halloween 5, some just don’t like it at all, others say it was too much like Halloween 4 and others are just apathetic about it. It has been a year since the events of Halloween 4. Jamie (Danielle Harris) is now in a children’s hospital and has not spoken ...

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Review of Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers (DVD)

...hermit for a year. Once Halloween begins he murders the hermit and makes his way back to Haddonfield. There we see Jamie (Danielle Harris) who can no longer speak and has developed a telepathic link with her uncle. Dr. Sam Loomis (the late, great Donald Pleasance) also returns and discovers Jamie's link to Uncle Mike. He tries to use this to his advantage to figure out when and who he's going to kill when Jamie goes into panic attacks. These attacks ...
...original idea. But in a "Halloween" film? Save it for a "Friday The 13th" sequel. This movie is bad. I don't mean bad as in "Jason Goes To Hell" purposely bad but I mean bad as in "there goes an hour and a half of my life" bad. This whole telepathic crap might be more original for this series but it doesn't work in the least. We go from one of the simplest Horror films of all time to something more complicated than building your own PC. This film ...

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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 ...
...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 ...

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...the last film of the Halloween sequels I saw and no it did not live up to any expectations - this film is just cheap and while watching it I just couldn't believe that it was in any way connected to the great Halloween 1 - firstly, Rachel, a very likeable character from Halloween 4 is killed off early on in the film and secondly the rest of the cast {except the greta Danielle Harris} behave like they're in a Friday the 13 th sequel - they go off ...
...hair just shining in the dark. Thinking about the movie now I can't remember any of the characters names {aopart from the ones from Halloween 4} and I can't remember how they dies - this film is boring and cheap and shouldn't be allowed to bare the name of "Halloween". ...

DanClegg 27.11.2000 · Read full review
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Its one year after the Halloween 4, and Michael Myers is back to wreak terror on Jamie Lloyd. Jamie lost her ability to speak since the previous Halloween and is now in a Children's hospital. But, she seems to have a telepathic link to Michael . . . which only Dr Loomis seems to realize and her little friend in the hospital. Halloween 5 is not an awful film, its just quite bad! There are some scares to be had especially the scene in which Jamie ...
...Dr Loomis is as good as ever, but this film just doesn't make the grade, which is a shame because Halloween 4 was so promising. The film is one of the weakest of the series (apart from number 3); even so, horror fans will find enough to enjoy it ...

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...were 20,000 leagues below the Halloween series. Sad is what it is. The opening credit sequence runs for no more than three minutes, and scarily, it's the best part of the film. Too bad about the rest of the film. Sore is what it is. This is getting old. The series does not benefit from sequels like this. Sooner of later, people are going to get tired of knowing very well that Michael is never dead, there's going to be a designated surviver [for ...

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