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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) - Precious few cuts from rock bottom

 

A child in Halloween costume is set against a giant hunting knife on this dark poster for Dominique Othenin-Girard's Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
 

Michael Myers again goes on a murderous rampage, despite the fact that he should be dead. His niece Jamie somehow can sense his wrongdoings, and the now mad Dr. Loomis uses her as bait to catch the man he should now already realize is immortal.

 

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is written by Michael Jacobs (Certain Fury (1985)), Shem Bitterman (Peephole (1993)) and co-writer/director Dominique Othenin-Girard (After Darkness (1985)).

The 'plot' of Halloween 5 is wildly ludicrous, as it attempts to precisely reproduce successful sequences from previous Halloween films. There's an embarrassingly bad and tasteless mickey-mousing cop subplot; sudden, unexplained sex, terribly unengaging 'characters', terrible sound work and noise, and futile violence. The only alleviating elements are really the copy-paste scenes of domestic terror.

Poor Donald Pleasence (Eye of the Devil (1966)) and children involved here. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is really an execrable film.

 

Related posts:

 

Halloween franchise: Halloween (2007) - Zombie's remake is a bloody stinker  

Halloween H20/Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) - Myers spreads fresh terror in Miner's fine sequel 

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - Myers returns for dull slasher 

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - Evil masks ravage in Wallace's under-appreciated horror 

Halloween (1978) - Carpenter's haunting slasher classic

 




Watch a short clip of an instance of the 'mickey-mousing' effect used in the film's police subplot here

 

Cost: 5.5 mil. $

Box office: 11.6 mil. $ (North America only)

= Uncertain but likely a box office success (projected return of 2.72 times its cost)

[Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers was released 13 October (USA) and runs 97 minutes. Production was rushed, following the success of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988). Shooting took place from May - June 1989 in Utah. The film opened #2, behind Look Who's Talking, to a 5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it left the top 5 in its 2nd weekend and grossed 11.6 mil. $. The international gross numbers are regrettably not made public, so it is impossible to say for sure, if the film was a success: But a small international reception to the tune of a 15 mil. $ final world gross would result in the film being a box office success. Othenin-Girard returned with Night Angel (1990). Pleasence returned in Casablanca Express (1989). Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is rotten at 12 % with a 3.70/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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