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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

October. 13,1989
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4.9
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One year later, Michael Myers' traumatized young niece is horrified to discover she has a telepathic bond with her evil uncle... and that he is on the way back to Haddonfield to begin the carnage again.

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HeadlinesExotic
1989/10/13

Boring

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Spoonatects
1989/10/14

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

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Aiden Melton
1989/10/15

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Billy Ollie
1989/10/16

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Wuchak
1989/10/17

Michael Myers survives his descent into a mind shaft from the previous movie and holds up with a hermit for a year before returning to his hometown in Illinois to attack his niece during Halloween and any trick-or-treaters who get in the way. As usual, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is on his trail."Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers" (1989) has the best sense of Halloween up to this point in the Michael Myers story arc with a considerable amount of the runtime involving the entertaining shenanigans of trick-or-treaters. While it's not great like the previous entry it's pretty much on par with the original 1978 movie and I actually prefer it even though it's less classy/arty and more blunt. Remember the infamous closet scene in the original? This one has a similarly effective sequence revolving around a clothes chute and Jaimie Lloyd.Ellie Cornell returns from the previous movie as Rachel and looks better, but it's charismatic raven-haired Wendy Foxworth as Tina who's the main protagonist (aside from Jaimie, that is) with blonde Tamara Glynn offering support as Samantha. There's also a Fonzie wannabe and his bud.This is the first movie in the series to throw in a little camp and comic booky-ness like the "Friday the 13th" franchise did with "Part III" (1982) and subsequent installments. The campiness has to do with the two goofy deputies and the comic booky-ness relates to the mysterious man-in-black and the corresponding twist at the end, which is supposed to segue into "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers" (1995). Like "Friday the 13th Part III," there's a long sequence involving a similar-looking barn.As with "Halloween 4," the movie was shot in the greater Salt Lake City area, Utah.GRADE: B

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cheighlee
1989/10/18

As you may know by now, Halloween 4 ended with Jamie (Michael Myer's niece) slashing her mom because... well she was distressed, possesed or whatever.Well, now the kid is in a foster home... looney bin for kids... it's not really important. Anyway, she's mute now for some reason, well not mute, she just doesn't speak. Loomis is there also, screaming at her and then you realise they probably were going to kill off Michael Myers in the last movie and let Jamie take the torch (knife) but they realised that's a horrible idea.So Michael is back after some sleepy time with a hobo guy down the river (this all happens in the movie) and is still after Jamie. So bad idea avoided?! Not so fast!Unfortunately, the replacement idea was as bad, if not worse.Which kinda leads us to the end of the movie, mysterious cloaked stranger, mysterious signs, everybody dying except Jamie, Loomis and Myers.

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tuckerconstable-07055
1989/10/19

"Halloween 5" finds Jami Lloyd locked up in a mental institution for killing her mother in the last film. Everything seems to be normal for her, or as normal as things can get, until she starts having visions of her uncle, Michael Myers, coming for her. Soon enough, Myers does come back for Jami, after being in a coma for a year. Which leads us to the dumbest thing in the film, Jami having a telekinetic connection to her uncle. Just saying that, it sounds dumb. But, when it comes from a "Halloween" film- one of the smartest horror franchises around-it really hurts to see."Halloween 5" isn't the worst sequel in the series, trust me there's far worse, but it's a great step in the wrong direction considering "Halloween 4" brought the franchise back to it's roots with a very chilling story. The best way to describe "Halloween 5" is that it feels like a "Friday The 13th" clone, even though "Halloween" came first. The teenagers are all sex driven maniacs who only have two emotions-annoyingly excited or just plain annoying-and the violence is toned way up for this installment. That's not to say I don't love a good bit of gore, but when you have such poor direction and the gore is the only thing going for your film, well... If anything good is to be said about "Halloween 5" it's that, despite the films many, many, many, many, many flaws, it still somehow manages to be frightening in a few scenes-specifically when Dr. Loomis is walking around the old dilapidated home of Myers. There's no jump scares or gore, but you have this heavy sense of dread throughout the whole scene. All in all, "Halloween 5" is pretty much the definition of an 80's horror film. You've got the big haired, sex crazed twenty somethings, you've got the zombified maniac lumbering around, but you don't have many scares-or a good plot for that matter.

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jordansepticeye
1989/10/20

I know why this movie isn't as good as the others,it was rushed,it came out less than a year after the previous one.But,on the positive side,I'll start with the pros,Danielle Harris and Donald Pleasence,they are still great,and the best characters in the movie.I also like how(although it ignores the twist ending),it pretty much picks up right where 4 left off,this is great as it shows how much the characters have changed and the town of Haddonfield itself.I also think that some moments are very suspenseful and well done.Michael Myers,I like how he still toys with his victims,and when he's angry,you feel it.I thought that Jamie having a psychic connection with Michael made slight sense,and it shows that they tried something new,and I thought it worked.I also thought that one kill was pretty cool.Now,the cons,the supporting characters,they all are unlikable,annoying,and feel very dated by today's standards.The pacing,well there is some great slow suspenseful scenes,I think the movie goes by too fast,but it feels slow at the same time some how.The kills,I thought they were(excluding the one I previously mentioned)very generic,and not very well done.I didn't like how Michael killed for no reason(it doesn't fit his character),and the ending was very unbelievable and stupid.My last and the biggest con,the comedy,I feel like there was a unnecessary focus on having as much humor as possible,in one scene that's supposed to be intense,they just throw in three random jokes,plus the humor isn't even very funny,it falls pretty flat.Halloween 5 is a mixed bag,for every suspenseful scene,there is an unfunny 80s teen stereotype,I'd say it'd be better if more time was taken.

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