First of all, Ellie Cornell as Rachel is the first one killed in Halloween 5. She is unceremoniously dispatched like 20 minutes into the movie and NO ONE EVER NOTICES, EVER. Seriously, there is not one piece of dialogue or one person who seems to notice Rachel is gone, instead we turn the focus on bubbly airhead Tina, who is played well by Wendy Kaplan but is so moronic and predictable it feels like a major misstep. Also, Jamie never once notices her own fucking sister is GONE for the ENTIRE movie? We don't see Rachel's body until like 70 minutes in, so almost an hour of the movie goes by with no one caring.
This movie is also the introduction of the Cult of Thorn/Man in Black storyline we'll see in part 6. We see some cool shoes and the mystery man get Michael out of jail in the end, and in this movie it's whatever, I guess we understand he has a collaborator and that is ok with me. What I loved more than that though was the relationship Michael Myers has with Doctor Loomis.
Pleasence turns in a usual slightly overdone insane performance as Loomis, who is less out for Michael's death and moreson trying to get Jamie to somehow "cure" Michael. That was a giant plothole too, although it is clearly shown Michael and Jamie are linked several times in several ways, that story never goes anywhere and we're never given a clear indication of how they would be linked, what that means, and how Loomis would use Jamie to cure Michael. But anyways, Loomis is so loving to Michael in the latter half of this movie, and it is also shown that Michael perhaps cares for Loomis as well. It is clear Michael listens to him, understands him, maybe even respects him. Michael has several clear chances to kill Loomis and never does, he gashes him with the knife once and pushes Loomis away, but I think it's awesome that Michael sort of seems to not want to kill Loomis.
Danielle Harris is great but first of all unfocused on, second of all she's totally silent for like more than half the movie, supposedly scared silent by the events of Part 4. Then, like I said, Tina is just annoying and she's traditional 80's horror movie fare, wanting to fuck her boyfriend, uncaring about Jamie, typical screamqueen. She does survive, getting stabbed in the shoulder and then promptly vanishing later on in the movie and never being referred to again.
Then the movie ends with the whole Cult business, the thorn guy rescuing Michael after Loomis shot him with tranquilizers and they put him in jail. Since there is no explanation, it's a good ending and we are hooked, but knowing where Halloween 6 goes...ugh I'm not excited. This movie was decent though, and I was also wondering while I watched it, is Halloween the slasher series with the least amount of nudity? I don't remember about Halloween 2, but 3-5 have no nudity and Halloween the original and the remake and...possibly H20...all have no nudity whatsoever. There is a shower scene with Rachel but the opaque shower door covers her body.
I liked this movie okay, but it's not one of the great for me. It's like 3 stars.
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