(1989)
Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Writers: Dominique Othenin-Girard, Michael Jacobs, Shem Bitterman
Halloween 5 takes place one year after the events of part 4. Michael has been in a coma in a hermit's shack for an entire year, and Jamie Lloyd, now mute, has been under psychiatric care. Just before Halloween, Michael suddenly awakens and Jamie begins sensing that he is coming for her.
Halloween 5 seems to me to be the point where the Halloween franchise really jumps the shark. Instead of working with the much more interesting premise of Jamie Lloyd continuing the legacy of Michael Myers as set up by the ending of part 4, they go back to the same tired formula of Michael Myers stalking his last known relative and killing anyone who gets in his way. Except this time, he doesn't even seem to know what he's doing. He seemingly just kills at random with no final goal in mind. First he goes after Jamie's adopted sister, then just goes after her friends for no discernible reason. When he attempts to kill her adopted sister's friend Tina, it seems to affect Jamie way more than when he killed her adopted sister, even curing her muteness, and we're never really sure why. There's a whole lot of things going on in this movie that don't really make much sense, but it's not really a good enough movie to find the energy to care. The whole movie is kind of a boring mess that I'm sure disappointed audiences as well, seeing as it would be another 6 years before the franchise returned. I give Halloween 5 two out of six beers.
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