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“Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” Review | Boogied
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers should really be called Halloween 5: The Revenge of the Producers, because it feels like the big-wigs who rushed this movie into production were intent on crushing any of the interesting concepts established in the last film for a run-of-the-mill, tiresome, boring slasher movie. Because more than anything else, the central flaw of Halloween 5 is that it’s an aggressively boring movie. This is the first real Halloween movie I vehemently dislike (I didn’t even dislike Ends this much), and there’s no reason for it to have been this way! Monotonous, frustrating in it’s undoing of Halloween 4, and lacking any real scares outside of maybe 2 scenes, Michael Myers is unmasked in the most embarrassing manner.
A year after Michael Myers returned to Haddonfield and who’s darkness overtook Jamie as she stabbed (not killed, I guess) her mother at the end of the previous film. Yeah, that really shocking ending? Completely undone here; Jamie finds herself admitted to the Haddonfield Children’s Clinic, rendered mute after the events that transpired last year. Suddenly, Jamie sees visions of the returning Michael, who managed to survive being shot a dozen times and falling down an abandoned shaft. There’s also Dr. Loomis, an unknown mystery man with a rune tattooed on his…