I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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

Halloween 5 is a waste of time. Donald Pleasance is not very good in this film. It was due to the director telling him to be cynical and unempathetic. He shows no remorse or sympathy when Jamie Lloyd's older sister is murdered. Jamie Lloyd is seemingly mute. Danielle Harris does give another great performance though, I must say. The ending is dumb and dragged out. The darker atmosphere is depressing (in a bad way), but not terrible. It does add to the film. Since Jamie Lloyd is mute, the focus is on the new batch of teens, for the most part. They're TERRIBLE! So unlikable, disrespectful, and obnoxious. They're really what kills this movie. Speaking of kills, they're actually pretty good. Some of my favorites in the series. The movie is just such a drag, and I don't really think it's worth 90 minutes. Overall, this isn't a truly terrible film, I just really don't like it. Good kills, good atmosphere, TERRIBLE characters, pacing, and plot devices. A very disappointing movie.

I don't see why this movie got such a low rating on IMBD. I actually liked Halloween 5 a little more than 4. While part 4 was still good, I found 5 to be overall more fun and more adventures with how the plot develops. Plus this one has a more darker and scary feel to it, and it actually scared me. In this one, Jamie Loyd, Michael's niece, is mute and is in a children's care center. But she also has psychological connections with her uncle. I know it sounds a bit cheezy, but it actually plays out quite well. There is some serious tense and suspenseful scenes, in which Jamie is trying to warn people that Michael is about to kill someone, but cannot due to her muteness. This one is more campy and fun and felt more true to the slasher genre than the previous. It's also quite an exciting ride as we follow Michael and Jamie around Hadonfield and eventually to Michael's old house in a great climax! Definitely recommend this one to any Halloween or horror fan.

A great example of how to really mess up a great idea, and recycle it into complete stupidity. Halloween 5 is as dumb as you can get in a horror franchise, the ending in part 4 was a unique way to take, the franchise in a different, but clever direction. But no, let's just forget about intelligence, and go right for redundancy. Well as you may now know, Michael Myers has survived, what a shock!, not really. And now little Jamie played again by Danielle Harris, has a strong connection with her uncle, a psychic connection, are you kidding me, what in the world did that come from? That has absolutely nothing to do with the ending of the last movie. So it looks like we will ignore the ending of part 4, we'll talk about it a little bit, and than move on to a dumb, never explained story line of psychic links, because the producers really don't want to do nothing else, but continue with Myers as the sole killer, forget that his niece nearly killed her stepmother a year ago, let's move on, how dumb is that. Plus, this maybe the first Halloween movie to drag like crazy, yeah, Michael kills a few people here and there, but who cares, it just feels boring watching him do it, and the deaths aren't really gruesome to start with, they're just fast shots and we move on, boring, especially in the first hour. Stupid characters all over the place, including 2 of the dumbest cops in movie history, and they even have their own wacky music playing every time they show up, it's not even funny, to tell you the truth, what were the creators of this movie thinking. The most annoying character is named Tina, she's always talking, always wants to have fun, please lady just shut up and stop laughing all the time. Believe me, you'll be rooting for Michael to these people as soon as possible. And please tell me, why would Michael stop for cigarettes, the weirdest part of the movie. And how did that hermit help Michael in the beginning of the movie, it makes no sense what so ever. Even Donald Pleasence, who is usually good in these films, the bright light as I call him, is just extremely over the top in this one. But putting all of this nonsense aside, Harris gives once again a strong performance as Jamie, and is the one true bright light of Halloween 5. Bad directing, boring story line, stupid characters, bad acting except for Harris, and an ending that is in my opinion, not really effective, even though, the man in black is interesting, the ending to me is just predictable. And for a movie this is about 98 minutes long, this movie felt like it was more than 2 hours long, very boring. Halloween 5 is just basically dumb, and a real waste of time. Skip it if you can, but because the story does continue in part 6, I guess you can't, sorry.