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At the end of Part 4, Michael was shot down by the police and fell into a mine shaft. The police think its over but the badly injured Michael crawls away. A hermit finds Michael and takes him into his home to care for him. Michael sleeps in a coma for the next year. Now he's returned. For the past year, Jamie Lloyd has been controlled by Michael's mind and now she knows that he's coming for her once again. After more murders start to occur in Haddonfield, Jamie is the only person how knows of Michael's evil plan. Can Loomis find out what Jamie knows before it's too late? Donald Pleasence - Dr. Sam Loomis
Danielle Harris - Jamie Lloyd
Ellie Cornell - Rachel Corruthers
Beau Starr - Sheriff Ben Meeker
Wendy Kaplan - Tina Williams
Tamara Glynn - Samantha
Jeffrey Landman - Billy
Max Robinson - Dr. Hart
Betty Carvahlo - Nurse Patsy
Donald Shanks - The Shape
Dominique Othenin-Girard - Director
Shem Bitterman &
Michael Jacobs - Writers
Ramsey Thomas - Producer
Alan Howarth - Music
Moustapha Akkad - Executive Producer
Well Halloween 5 is my least favourite film in the whole Michael Myers saga. I think the story is fairly decent and acceptable but pretty much everything about the movie is wrong. Any suspense is lost in this film because of the dreadful sound effects and Hallloween theme and Michael Myers is just too damn human!
I don't want to really take it out on Donald Shanks (Michael) because I think he didn't know what he was in for but Michael is not scary in this film and he's not methodical enough. I mean what's with his behaviour, he acts strange and doesn't have the aura he produces in the other films. And why is it almost as if he's sat sulking in the cell at the end?! I also didn't like the mask too much either, clear black patches over the eyes! And the neck piece stuck out way too far!!
The music and sound effects in the film are terrible. What the frig did they do!? and whats with the ridiculous circus-clown sound effects for the bumbling 'comic relief' cops. The re-working of the Halloween theme (if you can call it a re-working!) is atrocious, it becomes a whiny mess that has none of the impact of previous installments. This really let the film down because as I said in my review of the original Halloween the music made the movie for me.
The acting in Halloween 5 is plausable with Pleasence and young Danielle Harris stealing the film. Ellie Cornell returns again as Rachel Carruthers but is killed off in around twenty minutes from a shoulder wound. What's going on, Rachel was the only teen I liked in the films.
Other than that the film is watchable if you can let these faults slip but overall the movie feels very cheap and grainy and watches like a TV movie. Dominique Othenin-Girard definetly doesn't know how to make a Halloween movie. A big letdown that you might want to avoid but it does have its entertaining moments. 5/10
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