Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

So Micheal gets run over and gunned down in the last Halloween pic and somehow he’s comes back from this to seek revenge? Very resilient of him. I technically did not ruin anything as the last 10 mins of Halloween 4 begin Halloween 5. They literally tried to blow him up and is able to escape even with 30 bullets in him. Wow, it’s like he’s Jason all of a sudden.

Adding to this is the supernatural psychic connection crazy ass Mike has with his crazy ass niece, Jammie, who made Halloween 4 rememberable for me due to the cool ending of having Jammie inherit Micheal’s need to kill, but they changed that with Dr. Loomis, who by the forth Halloween became the longest lasting character only succeeded by Micheal Himself, telling everyone that Micheal is using a “psychic link” he has with Jammie to make her do things. Kinda lame and a plot point that’s not really Micheal Meyers, I think.

But the thing about Halloween 4 and 5 is  they are trying to make the slasher that started it all (actually that’s leather face but…), slightly keep up with the dogs that were on top of the game, at the the time,  like Freddy and Jason who had a supernatural monster feel, so now they are trying it for Micheal. He’s able to survive getting shot a dozen times, he has a psychic link to his primary victim and his mask looks more like it’s permanently attached to his face.

Speaking of which,I remember back in the day when they were advertising this flick. They said that Micheal Myers will unmask himself, and show us a face we have not scene since the 1st Halloween. Believe me, it was not at all the highlight they were trying to say it was.

Most of the death scenes are very lackluster. Like most Halloweens it counts mostly on the suspense of the death but not the death itself, but it did get to the point where watching Micheal look at his victims was getting boring.  I do have to say there is this seen where Micheal literally waits for a girl to be deflowered before he kills her, and this was before Scream laid out the rules of a horror film, and the film geek culture that would set up every scene like this.

It’s not the worse of horror films but in comparison between the other Halloween movies, especially number four which it directly follows , it’s not great.