Halloween 5:
The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
It’s remarkable that merely a
year after the success of Halloween 4, the series could have
been plunged to the depths
on view here. With its ugly aesthetic and nasty tone, this fifth
film anticipates the direction
Rob Zombie would take the reboot of the franchise almost 20
years later. This is a horrid film
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in every sense of the word and
it introduced new elements that
ultimately led to derision and
disillusion among fans. Though
the fourth movie featured no involvement from John Carpenter,
it did for the most part feel like a
Halloween film. Its follow-up has
more in common with the sleazy
imitations of Carpenter’s classic.
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