Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Stars	User	Rating
4	INDYATMN	50 _4th
One hopes this franchise's producer actually has an idea in mind for the 6th film because this one is just a tease padded w/ an hour of garbage. After the surprisingly unpredictable 4th installment, someone decided that the best way to kill time is to spend 1 hour w/ the dopey 1-dimensional teens this franchise has mostly avoided. The psychic little girl is interspersed w/ these idiots until the last 20 minutes. The director also plays goofy music to let us know the cops are comic relief. Awful.
3	Ytadel	3 _28th
While it doesn't totally ignore the twist at the end of Halloween 4, it largely chooses to retcon/write its way around it rather than steer into the skid, which is a disappointment. The new teen characters (aka Michael victims) hit a whole new unprecedented level of forgettability, which for this franchise is saying something. But I will give it a few extra points for an occasionally entertaining showing by Dr. Loomis.
3	twincinema	30 _12th
Each act feels like its own film. After the farm house, I checked the runtime and was shocked that there was still another 35 minutes left. The two police officers come in with their own sound effects and comedy routine. I had to rewind to make sure I was hearing correctly.
3	BillyShears	40 _12th
Two police officers from some bullshit french comedy are trapped in Haddonfield and have to schtick their way out. "Dr Loomis leave the little girl alone..."
3	TimeCapsule	45 _33rd
Thanks to cable, outside of the OG, this may be the "Halloween" movie I've sadly seen the most, and it's not because this was the best of all the sequels. Of course, the movie completely bails on evil Jamie, and instead we get psychic-mute-Jamie, but that's the least of the movie's problems. Although we still get some batshit-insane-Loomis, we get way too much of the Haddonfield teen gang, and despite that, my nostalgia will argue that as bad as it is, it's still a watchable enough 80's slasher.
2	KasperL	30 _10th
Has its fair share of problems (including a lame psychic connection and being horrifically 80s) which some okay moments here and there (the barn killings, Loomis trapping MM) go some way towards making up for. It's reasonably well-made.
2	Luna6ix	52 _9th
A pretty terrible sequel, just as bad as the one before, except the ending here has no saving graces, and on top of that the director took a different approach than the previous installment would have you think--which should have totally mixed the franchise up and made it fresh again. But instead they opted for the status quo, which happens to suck, bad.
2	MArkjp	25 _6th
Somehow manages Ø to be all over the place without much ever happening.
1	Pritch	7 _1st
I own this movie on DVD. Kill me.
1	nuotio	34 _4th
First genuinely bad Halloween film which is a textbook example of messing up a sequel; add more supernatural elements, goofy comedy, annoying kids and make Myers drive a car like he's escaped from Fast & Furious franchise. There are a couple of good kills and I enjoyed the car chase sequence with a ridiculous end result. It's too long, tonally all over the place and shot and edited in that bad late 80's MTV style. It also mainly skips the intriguing ending of previous entry.
1	gogokain	25 _36th
Disappointing follow up to 4, but Wendy Kaplan is fiiiine.
1	hellsditch	56 _3rd
Everyone had given up on the franchise by this point...and it shows. Not an original thought anywhere in sight except for the "twist" ending that was followed up in the next movie in the series...a development that was so lame and so contrary to what was great about the origins of the series that they really should have just left it as a cliffhanger and left the franchise for dead until enough time had passed for a reboot (if they absolutely HAD to do one...which they didn't).
1	moraesfelipe	40 _14th
It plays as the better version of H4. Loomis has a weird plan of using Jamie as bait to either cure MM of his rage of kill him off and ends up being a frigthening presence as well. The mental link between Jamie and her uncle is more explored, as MM initiates another slow rampage in Haddonfield looking for her -- it ends at family house, where MM built some sort of sanctuary in the attic. Still miles away from being just OK, but it at least tries -- with the exception of those two "funny" cops.
1	FrederikA	35 _12th
All things considered a better, more competent fifth installment, than most other horror franchises can boast off five movies down the line. But by no fucking means a good movie.
1	bof	18 _4th
Well this is just dire. The best thing about 4 was the ending, which 5 immediately undoes. The rest is just watching annoying teenagers take far too long to die and Michael Myers being turned into a thoroughly generic slasher movie villain, while Donald Pleasence yearns for the quality movie-making of Pumaman.
1	DesertPunk	41 _10th
As much as I love Donald Pleasence, I really wish the plan to cast Christopher Lee had went through so I could hear him say some of Loomis' terrible, terrible lines in this trainwreck. "Cookie woman! Cookie woman!"
1	talonmalon	30 _7th
Halloween 4 marked the beginning of the end for the series. But this quick cash-in, Halloween 5, escalated that to a new level. One of 4's only redeeming parts, its dark cliffhanger, was simply brushed off here. Instead, we got another soulless rehash. It's devoid of suspense, and instead we're "treated" to empty jump scares. The new characters are horrible, including the teenage lead. There are some decent moments, and the returning characters are likable, but overall, Halloween 5 is simply bad
1	Groovy_Souls	20 _7th
Yeah, this is where I could feel this franchise losing steam. It's not a competent horror film, let alone a competent Mike Myers film, and everybody's gotten considerably more annoying. Donald Pleasance is even a lot to handle throughout. It's the worst one so far, by far.
1	Pickle_Man	35 _7th
The last remnants of atmosphere are gone and H5 fully commits to the generic late 80s slasher aesthetic. Seriously - you could substitute any other slasher villian into this script and it still makes sense. There's also a lot of 80s teen comedy elements, and the fact that it doesn't take itself seriously (just count the number of times MM is used by the townspeople as a cheap fake out scare) is the worst part about it. The last ~25 minutes (teenagers are dead and cops leave) are actually good.

Average Percentile 19.84% from 716 Ratings