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Directed By
Dominique Othenin-Girard
Written By:
Dominique Othenin-Girard, Michael Jacobs, Shem Bitterman
Cast:
Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Don Shanks, Betty Carvalho, Beau Starr, Wendy Kaplan, Wendy Kaplan, Jeffrey Landman
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
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Movie Review by Jarrod
October 31st, 2007
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'Halloween 5' ignores the ending of Halloween 4, when Michael is shot to death by cops with shotguns and falls into a river, washing up on the shore, discovered by some old hobo who is not so nicely rewarded for his kindness once Michael regains consciousness.
Jamie (again played Danielle Harris) has now lost her ability to speak, and is in a children's hospital, where she has psychic visions of her mass-murdering uncle, and can sense him when he is near, or when he kills somebody. Loomis is trying to get Jamie to locate Michael, to help him find him so he can finish him off once and for all. Loomis is a ranting and raving maniac here, and Pleasance captures that perfectly, often yelling at everybody, including Jamie, Tina (Wendy Kaplan), Rachel's friend, and the local police officials.
Tina sort of replaces Rachel here. Tina goes to a party at a farmhouse, against the wishes of Loomis, and gets chased by Michael, Jamie follows her there. It all leads to a showdown in the Myers house, between Loomis and Michael, and Jamie frantically running around hiding in various places. This is a step down in quality from Halloween 4. The whole psychic thing seems borrowed from Friday the 13th, Part VII, even though Jamie is not telekinetic. It is a silly gimmick that doesn't work that well. There is yet another pseudo sex scene, in a barn; I say pseudo because we don't really see anything before Michael runs the lovers through with a pitchfork.
There is a scene towards the end where Michael removes his mask (though his face is covered in shadow), as he stands before Jamie, not appearing like he wants to kill her at all, but that quickly changes. A moment of odd family bonding maybe. Loomis beats the crap out of Michael with a wooden board, after trapping him in chains. This doesn't hurt him, really, it incapacitates him until he can be arrested and taken to jail, where he is busted out by the mysterious guy seen a few times throughout the movie, wearing a black hat, a long black coat, and boots.
John Carpenter and Debra Hill had nothing to do with Halloween 4, and they have nothing to do with this, either. Only Moustapha Akkad, as producer, was involved. Does Michael really get revenge? Hard to say, Jamie and Loomis are still around, but the entire police department gets slaughtered, so maybe that does count as revenge. Oh well.
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