Halloween Collection

Horror

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Magnum Pictures Inc.

Trancas International Films

Galaxy International Releasing

United States of America

English

Donald Pleasence

Danielle Harris

Ellie Cornell

Wendy Foxworth

Beau Starr

Don Shanks

Jeffrey Landman

Tamara Glynn

Matthew Walker

Betty Carvalho

Troy Evans

Frankie Como

David Ursin

Harper Roisman

Karen Alston

Max Robinson

Fenton Quinn

Greg Nicotero

Jonathan Chapin

Stanton Davis

Jack North

Russ McGinn

Jon Richard Platten

Jay Bernard

Angela Montoya

Patrick White

Steven Anderson

Frank Kanig

Donré Sampson

John Gilbert

Tom Jacobsen

Charles Tetoni

Alan Howarth

Shem Bitterman

Moustapha Akkad

Ramsey Thomas

Dominique Othenin-Girard

Robert Draper

Jerry Brady

Hal Burton

Laura Dash

Les Godwin

Ann L. Thornberg

Dan Wallin

Monique LeBleu

John Post

Rick Nathanson

Lawane Cole

Greg Jacobs

Ken S. Polk

Robert Thirlwell

Thomas Yatsko

Victoria J. Auth

Paul Hellerman

Barbara J. Boguski

Donlee Jorgensen

Ted Churchill

Dan Hegeman

Bess Hopper

John Gabriele

Rex Nicholson

Azusa Ohno

Robert 'Dobber' Price

Moni Mansano

George P. Wilbur

Greg Landerer

Dan Muscarella

Robert W. Glass Jr.

Mark Sheret

David Lewis Yewdall

Scott Oshita

Howard Berger

Robert Kurtzman

Lee Alan McConnell

Michael Jacobs

Sean Everett

Mark Maitre

Ed Fassl

David Bartlett

Allan Bond

Debra Hill

Deedee Bradley

Rhoda Shadlo

Chris Ingram

Brenton Swift

Simon Tuke

Victor Iorillo

John Carpenter

Steven A. Lee

Chava Danielson

Martin J. Bram

Richard Honigman

Tracy Evans

Gary Pike

Oscar Zoghbi

Kelly Schroeder

Troy Rohovit

Alessandra Mazzola

Denise B. Earle

Al Locatelli

Michael Perry

Don Pike

Jason Fife

Craig A. Brink

Brian Berlin

R.T. “Tom” Wharton

Chris Reiter

Kim Gigilia

Jack Johnson

Mike 'Chewie' Pappas

Matt Broten

Elisabeth Carney

Marco Lopez

Clara Smith

You've got to help me Jamie. You've got to help me find him. We both know he's alive.

Halloween 5: The Return of Michael Myers picks up where part 4 left off, only Michael is not dead, obviously! He's come back to Haddonfield intent on finally killing his niece, Jamie (Danielle Harris), who due to trauma has lost the ability to speak and now has a psychic link with mad uncle Michael. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is once again on hand to be nutty and spout ominous warnings, while all other folk in Myers' way are doomed.

It starts off quite promising, with shades of Frankenstein (1931) offering hope that maybe this wont be a sequel reeking of cash cow formula. Unfortunately it proves to be a false dawn, evidence that the writers were out of ideas, it lacks scares or a narrative spark to ignite suspense sequences. Harris is once again superb, Pleasence good fun as usual as he hams for all he is worth, while an extended sequence in a barn keeps fans of the series happy. It's passable fun for the slasher crowd, but ultimately it's unimaginative and a low point for the Halloween franchise. 5/10

Gimly

It's always neat when a slasher movie keeps a protagonist from its previous entry in the franchise for more than just an opening sequence. Maybe because it doesn't happen very often. _Halloween 5_ does have that going for it, as well as the standard "Invincible dude stabs some folk for your enjoyment" to a certain degree, and that's great, but beyond this there's not a whole lot good about _The Revenge of Michael Myers_. It did teach me some very incorrect things about the letter þ though, so I mean... There's that...

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

Michael Myers attacks trick-or-treaters on Halloween

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

Official Trailer

Halloween 5 The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Trailer

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Cast & Crew

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Cast

Donald Pleasence

Danielle Harris

Ellie Cornell

Wendy Foxworth

Beau Starr

Don Shanks

Jeffrey Landman

Tamara Glynn

Matthew Walker

Betty Carvalho

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