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Summary: ANOTHER "HALLOWEEN" CLASSIC LOOKS GREAT ON DVD!
Review: HALLOWEEN 5 is a scary sequel that has all the susepnse and scares you'd expect from Michael Myers and company. You might say this is the sequel that officially made the series a "stereotypical slasher movie" but I look at movies like HALLOWEEN 5 and compare them to sequels like FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 5 and you suddenly realize HALLOWEEN 5 is a masterpiece. H5 has a dark atmosphere, some really frightening set pieces, and Donald Pleasence gives his best performance as the crazed Dr. Loomis. The DVD is pretty good, with an old documentary, "some" new interviews, a TV spot (no trailer!!) and a booklet. The new transfer is also the best looking print I have ever seen for this movie. Worth the cash.
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Summary: HALLOWEEN V review
Review: Not nearly as good as the three previous Michael Myers films but a lot better than the three following, this fifth installment (though "Part III" was unrelated) is truly a mixed bag. While "The Shape" is still the unstoppable killing machine he was in earlier chapters, his newest list of victims are about as obnoxious and goofy as they get.Taking place a year after the last film, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), Michael's only living relative, is now an involent living in a hospital for problem children. Of course, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is still around and it's a good thing because the rest of the cast is just awful. Loomis has grown impatient though as he tries to convince Jamie to lead him to Michael. The killing spree starts up again and of course, Jamie and another seperate group of oversexed teenagers are the targets here. HALLOWEEN V has its moments as far as scares are concerned though it does work more at being gory than being scary at times. Some of the movie works well but there are a whole lot of plot holes to be found, this time around. Followed by an even dumber HALLOWEEN: CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS.
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Summary: Worst of the lot
Review: This film was so wrong on many different levels! How did the Myers home become a gothic mansion? What happened to Michael's mask??? It looked absolutely ridiculous, not to mention it doesn't even match the one positioned on the box cover! The supporting characters are dreadful and you pray for their demise, in particular Tina. Oh & did I mention the doof cops named Freddy & Jason? Moan inducing, indeed!
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Summary: Series hits all time low. Poor Donald Pleasance....
Review: The poor script and lousy acting make this altogether unwatchable. Lame excuse of a script to bring Myers back. How do you screw up a film with a formula of this kind. Reminds me of how they screwed up another simple formula film, Smokey and the Bandit 2. Bottom of the barrel...
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Summary: Not one of the best
Review: Halloween 5 picks up right were 4 left off. It is a year later, and Jamie is in a children's hospital, now unable to speak (for reasons unknown and confusing.) Michael awakens again from the mine shaft (didn't someone think to see if he was dead, since this will be his 4th time returning to kill) and immediately starts his senseless killing spree. We see Rachel die in the first 20 minutes of the film, quite a disappointment. Michael now wants revenge, and is after anyone that stands in his way (and even people who don't, for no apparent reason.) He is chasing Jamie again, trying to kill the last of his bloodline. We return the the Myers house this time, which in no way looks like the original Myers house from the first Halloween. Dr. Loomis returns again, stopping at no cost to destroy Michael. We are introduced to a man which all we know about him is that he wears all black. In no way is he explained. In the end we are again set up for a sequel, but a very fuzzy ending. Halloween 5 does not do justice to its predecessors. A few good points though are the classic Halloween music, and Danielle Harris' portrayal of Jamie.
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Summary: Halloween 5......not that bad?
Review: This was a bad movie for the Halloween Series. This was not as bad as Halloween III. One year after Michael was shot by Sheriff Ben Meeker(Beau Starr) and the country boys, Jamie Lloyd(Danielle Harris) is put in the Haddonfield Children's Clinic and is mute due to the events of Halloween 4. Michael rises from a coma and puts his mask on again. He goes back to the Carruthers house and kills off Rachel(Ellie Cornell). He pursues Jamie and Rachel's best friend Tina(Wendy Kaplan) through town, while Dr. Loomis(Donald Pleasance) trys to lure him to the Myers house to finish him off once and for all. First of all, Michael Myers kills Rachel right of the bat. The psychic connection between Michael and Jamie was very dumb and Jamie got a little bit annoying after a while. Michael's mask is different. Dr. Loomis works in Haddonfield and works in the children's hospital that Jamie lives in. Skip Halloween III if you want to be really want to be scared! Watch this movie if you really love the series! I'd problably give this two and a half stars if I could!
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Summary: Michael Myered
Review: Useless, pointless, unscary, unfunny sequel that should have been thought over before it went before the lens. Donald Pleasance shows up for his paycheck and brings in a minamill performance as Dr. Loomis. Taking place seconds after "Halloween 4", Michael Myers escapes his mineshaft doom and floats down river, shacking up with a hermit and tending to his wounds inflicted in the film (in one of the film's Grand Canyon size loopholes, people who have seen the previous "Halloween"'s know that Michael only appears to kill on the Halloween holiday, so, the question is what does he do for the other 364 days of the year?!?!). But, Halloween has come once again and "The Shape" (Michael) rises to kill and continue his search for his niece. Jamie, Michael's niece, is now a traumatized mute, who has a psychic link to her Uncle (she sees the deaths of Michaels victims through his eyes) and the only person who knows where he is. There is also a foolish plot thread about a mysterious cowboy mystery man (Toby Keith?) dressed all in black, who helps Michael with his escape at the end of the film. The film just plain sucks. The acting is atrocious. Donald Pleasance looms over Danielle Harris and repeats the same three lines over and over ("Where is he, Jamie?! Where?!", "Write it down, Jamie! Write it down!", "HE is coming, I'm telling you!!") your rolling your eyes by the end of the movie. I laughed so hard when Danielle Harris started to pantomime her Uncle's actions, that I started choking on my popcorn! And as for the cowboy, I was waiting for the Waylon Jennings theme to the "Dukes of Hazzard" to start, when he first stepped off the Greyhound Bus (What!?!? No horse?). If you value life, such that it is, you shoud avoid this movie like the chicken flu.
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Summary: Retarded "Revenge"
Review: Retarded sequel that has no real premise at all. The film brings in a new mysterious character that is dressed all in black and looks like an out of style cowboy (Billy Ray Cyrus, maybe?). Picking up seconds after "Halloween 4" ends, Michael Myers escapes his mineshaft dilemma & shacks up with a hermit to heal his wounds recieved from the film (in a gigantic loophole, the size of the Holland Tunnel, everyone who has seen these films knows that Myers only kills on Halloween so...., what the hell did he do for the other 364 days?!?!). At any rate, Halloween comes again and Michael awakens anew, killing off the hermit (his parrot lives), and continues his search for his niece, Jamie, who has become a traumatic mute, and posseses a psychic link with her Uncle only moments before he claims another life (she sees each death he commits through his eyes. Well, isn't that special?!?). Donald Pleasance returns for the fourth time as Dr. Loomis, hounding and hovering over Jamie (he says the lines, "Where is he? Where?", "Write it on the paper. Write it "., "Jamie, please tell me." about a thousand times). The final nail in the coffin is the assinine appearance of a stranger dressed all in black, who busts out Michael at the end of the film (he must be a real tight-ass because he came into town on a Greyhound bus). There really is nothing original about this series anymore.
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Summary: A GOOD MOVIE...
Review: Hallloween 5 was ok I mean it wasn't as scary and suspensful as the others were.Seriously what's with the guy in the cult that's controling Michael that's not scary I mean sure it gets you confused but weres the fun in that.
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Summary: A good adition to the saga
Review: I really don't know why people didn't enjoy this one. It's one thing if you never liked them for the start but I can't see why a Halloween fan wouldn't like this one. I hadn't seen Halloween 4 yet so I hadn't seen Jamie at all and I though she was mute in the first place. It was kind of confusing when she would see Michael because nobody knew if it was a dream or if he was really there. One thing stupid was that they left Jamie in a room with a cop who was so dumb he didn't have enough sense to take his gun out. Jamie was lucky that Michael didn't kill her but he got her in the next one. Loomis was seeming crazy but once you realized what he was doing he seemed a genius. He should have died when Michael stabbed him though. That old man can survive more than Michael can himself. This was a good movie and all horror movie lovers should see.
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