Halloween V

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                                                     6******skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Sexual Situations* *No Strong Language* *No Nudity* *Violent* *Not Particularly Gory* *Blood*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1989/Color/96 Min./CBS/Fox Video & Galaxy Pictures & Magnum Pictures, Inc. & Trancas International Films, Inc./Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Dominique Othenin-Shirard (Night Angel, Omen IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Michael Jacobs</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Alan Howarth (Halloween IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Ramsey Thomas</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer..Moustapha Akkad (Halloween IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by K.N.B. EFX Group</B></div> <div> <B>Written by Michael Jacobs & Dominique Othenin-Girard & Shemp Bitterman</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Loomis......Donald Pleasence (Halloween IV, Alone in the Dark)</B></div> <div> <B>Jamie...........Danielle Harris (Halloween IV) </B></div> <div> <B>Rachel..........Ellie Cornell (Chips, the War Dog, Halloween IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff Meeker..Beau Starr (Halloween IV, Glory Years)       </B></div> <div> <B>Billy...........Jeffrey Landman</B></div> <div> <B>Tina............Wendy Kaplan</B></div> <div> <B>Samantha........Tamara Glynn</B></div> <div> <B>Mike............Johnathan Chapin (Prison for Children)</B></div> <div> <B>Nurse Patsy.....Betty Carvalho</B></div> <div> <B>Charlie.........Troy Evans</B></div> <div> <B>Spitz...........Mathew Walker</B></div> <div> <B>Deputy Nick.....Frank Como</B></div> <div> <B>Deputy Tom......David Ursin</B></div> <div> <B>Michael Meyers..Donald L. Shanks (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: There are some nice confrontations between Michael and the other main characters at the end. This was a great run, but the series is starting to show some wear. This is the first time in the series (other than </B><B>Halloween III</B><B>) in which pace problems showed up. It's hard to work up much interest in anyone but Michael, so when he gets to slashing, we aren't as attentive as we might have been. Only Loomis and the little girl. A problem is that Michael showed some pretense of being a human being in the first few films. Given the punishment he's able to sustain these days, that status has become pretty suspect. Also the inclusion of a death or devil character in cowboy boots is as disappointing as it is baffling - and why does this character arrive a day after Michael? Michael's rage may make him "seem" unhuman, but it is a leap to take Dr. Loomis ("Death has come to your town Sheriff.") too literally. To this comes the post-modern dissapointment that Mr. Death sets Michael free at the end, whereas, all things being equal, Michael's inevitable escape should have been the opening scene of part VI. Still, it's better than most, with the exceptions of its predecessors. Particularly satisfying is the penultimate scene in which Loomis talks face to face with Michael, apparently making some headway, before beating the boy to a pulp with a 2x4. Finally! The death of Donald Pleasence in 1995 has left the Michael character without a formidable foil, and these reviewers saddened.    </B></div> <div> <B>Good Line: "Halloween should be forbidden in this town." -Tina</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: When we left Michael at the end of part IV, he was in the worst shape of his career. V Picks up where part IV left off: niece Jamie and the severely injured Michael clasping hands just before he is sent south, falling through what looked like a hole to hell. When the police bomb the hole, resilient Michael slithers out a tunnel and drifts away on the river. An old salt finds Michael, severely injured, in his shack. Ala Frankenstein, the oldster nurses him back to health. One year later, on Halloween Eve, Jamie is still convalescing from the events of a year before--she can't speak and is having troubled dreams. There is a psychic link between her and Michael, her uncle. She dreams again of her knife attack on her mother as a brain scan records the activity. She has a vision of Michael (Where'd the Samhain symbol on Jason's wrist come from?) and sits up in bed, moving parallel to Michael, and scrawls "He's coming for me" on a chalk board. Jamie is tormented by dreams of her uncle killing again. Michael doesn't have the sense of gratitude of the Frankenstein monster--he arises and dispatches the oldster who helped him. During the murder Jamie apes Michael, wretches, and stops breathing. Dr Loomis is on hand, although the doctors suspect he wants Jamie dead. His primary concern is actually what signals she is receiving from her uncle. Locals are uneasy about the child: a rock is thrown through the window, reading "The evil child must die." Loomis knows Michael has re-returned again, and as Jamie's foster sister Rachel enters her home, foster uncle Michael watches. When Jamie has a vision involving her dog Max, Dr. Loomis calls Rachel, who discovers the door wide open and Max gone, and tells her to get out of the house. The dog scare turns out to be a false alarm when the police quickly find a healthy Max, but Jamie is not satisfied. She senses something. Rachel makes the mistake of changing her clothes - half naked and proud of it - in her own bedroom. That's the kind of thing Michael can't abide. Rachel discovers the pane on Jamie's photo smashed, just before Michael stabs her. Dr. Loomis urges Jamie to write down what she senses. She's right--the man is back. When the cops won't accept the evidence of the girl's twitching, Loomis shows the Sheriff his mangled hand and asks the rhetorical question, "How many people did he kill last year?" As the Sheriff is called to investigate a cemetary desecration, wild and crazy Tina arrives at Rachel's to meet other teens (Samantha likewise arrives with snacks) for a Halloween party up at a local farm. Sounds like trouble. Jamie is chased through the hospital either by Michael or visions of him, but is saved by a janitor and a nurse. Loomis' attempts to get Jamie to write down where Michael is are still resisted. He accuses Jamie of protecting Michael and informs her thatthe coffibn of a nine year old girl was dug up today urging her to speculate on for whom the digger might have needed it. A man with steel-tipped boots gets off a bus and kicks a dog as he leaves. (this series is populated by dog haters.) Loomis pokes around the old Meyers place; he feels Michael will return. Mikey the tough meets Michael. Michael's sense of how to really get people is becoming more refined. He scrapes Mikey's pride and joy car, before strangling him, garden-hoeing him to death, and borrowing his muscle car Camaro. Meanwhile, Jamie and the other children at the hospital prepare for the annual halloween costume pageant, during which she senses trouble and feints. Tina, Mikey's girlfriend, climbs into the car with Michael, who has set aside his Captain Kirk mask for Mikey's goblin mask. Tina flirts with him and he drives silently. Again, social skills: the girl who thinks Michael is her boyfriend wants cigarettes and he stops for her. Jamie saves Tina by telepathically locating uncle Michael for Loomis and the police arrive at the market taking Tina into protective custody. Michael rolls. Loomis is really making people nervous, and Tina blasts him for scaring everybody before leaving for the party with an incompetent police duo as bodyguards. The party at the tower farm is in high gear. There's lots of fake slasher hijinx among the partyers - blonde idiot Charlie's "Michael Myers" costume gets the strongest reactions. While the cops play cards, Charlie playfully chases Tina with a knife, scaring the cops. The Teens rush off to their next fun, leaving Tina to wait for her Mikey. As the idiots begin having safe sex in the barn Michael pitchforks Charlie and scythes Sam. The police shout at Michael to dro the fork, but he calmly continues to approach their vehicle. Tina, following a kitten while searching for idiots Charlie and Sam, finds a chambre du mords in the barn. And in the cop car. Jamie and little friend Billy converge on the farm. Tina approaches the Camaro and Michael pursues by car until he spots Jamie and drives into the woods after her where he hits a tree and explodes. When the horn stops beeping, the pursued know Michael is up again. As Tina struggles with the monster and is stabbed to death, the children run to Loomis and the Sheriff. Loomis calls into the woods and tells Michael that his hatred will destry him and that killing them all won't free him. He tells him to go home where he and Jamie will await him. Loomis and the police set up a showdown at the old Meyers place. Jamie brushes her hair at the nmirror like her aunt did twelve years ago on this night   The house is full of and surrounded by cops with rifles who are then pathetically diverted away to the clinic where Michael makes a brief appearance, murdering and sacking enough to busy the authorities while he heads "home". Loomis tells Michael that the little girl can stop the rage inside. Jamie gets away by sliding down the garbage chute. Was Loomis right that Jamie has some ability to heal her uncle the bogeyman man? Loomis wants Michael to play a game: catch the little girl. Loomis is a landlocked captain Ahab in his end, managing to beat Michael with a board to a pile of broken bones, before clutching his chest and collapsing on top of his obcession. Michael's sitting in a cell at the end the police station is pretty ripped up. The gate is open.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>