***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Halloween 4, my favorite sequel of the bunch, was a pretty good slasher film. It mad Halloween hip again, made Myers scary again, and presented us with the most shocking endings in a horror film in a long while. The way that film ended i was just sure that when the 5th Halloween was to be released they were going to do something new and exciting with it.
Unfortunately for us Halloween fans the filmmakers chickened out. They practially abandoned what they ended with in the previous installment and did this business as usual. To call this a sequel to the far more superior 4th installment is an insult. Why did things go horribly wrong, espcially since these films were shot and released within months of each other.
Halloween 5 does a few things right. It picks up where the 4th one left off. However the actual ending of the 4th film is given screentime in a flashback in the beginning but is totally ignored throughout the rest of the film. The performances are pretty dead on. Danielle Harris is even better than she was int he 4th installment. A very solid thespian for someone at a such a young age. Donald Pleasance presence is good thing in any Halloween film but his deranged bit that was used well in the 4th installment is slightly over-played in this film. There are 2 fairly good stalk sequences. *POTENTIAL SPOILER* One with Jamie trapped in a cellar as Michael stabs through it trying to get to his prey. The other being Myers trying to run Jamie down as she runs away in extreme terror. *END SPOILER*.
THE BAD HOWEVER MOST DEFINITELY OUTWEIGHS THE GOOD UNFORTUNATELY. Myers just isn't scary in this installment. He actually put chills down my spine in the 4th film however is this one it's the equivalent of a bum trying to hunt you down. The mask is also all wrong. It looks too goofy. The teenage characters are too annoying for words. When they're on screen i was rooting for Michael to take them out. One character that everyone thought was annoying was Tina. She was slightly nerve-wracking but her sacifice in the end made her a fairly likable character in the end. The movie is extremely slow. i understand when movies move gradually to build suspense but there are scenes in this film that just waste time. Such as the scenes with the two goofy cops. what was that all about? I understand that a series in its 5th installment needs to go into a new direction to stay fresh but the direction this film goes in is totally wrong. They should've stuck with the ending of part 4 and done something with that instead we get a new plot twist("the man in black") that is revealed in the 6th film but this plot thread buried the 5th and 6th film in my opinion. It just seems out of place.
*SPOILER*
Their biggest mistake was A)Killing off Rachel and B) If you're going to kill her don't kill her so early in the film. She was the heart and soul in the 4th film and she is killed within the first 20 minutes. Big mistake on the filmmakers part.
As you can see i was very disappointed with this film especially since it followed the far superior 4th installement. In the case of this series i'm glad they kept making films until they got to H20 just so they could finally do one worth watching.
Unfortunately for us Halloween fans the filmmakers chickened out. They practially abandoned what they ended with in the previous installment and did this business as usual. To call this a sequel to the far more superior 4th installment is an insult. Why did things go horribly wrong, espcially since these films were shot and released within months of each other.
Halloween 5 does a few things right. It picks up where the 4th one left off. However the actual ending of the 4th film is given screentime in a flashback in the beginning but is totally ignored throughout the rest of the film. The performances are pretty dead on. Danielle Harris is even better than she was int he 4th installment. A very solid thespian for someone at a such a young age. Donald Pleasance presence is good thing in any Halloween film but his deranged bit that was used well in the 4th installment is slightly over-played in this film. There are 2 fairly good stalk sequences. *POTENTIAL SPOILER* One with Jamie trapped in a cellar as Michael stabs through it trying to get to his prey. The other being Myers trying to run Jamie down as she runs away in extreme terror. *END SPOILER*.
THE BAD HOWEVER MOST DEFINITELY OUTWEIGHS THE GOOD UNFORTUNATELY. Myers just isn't scary in this installment. He actually put chills down my spine in the 4th film however is this one it's the equivalent of a bum trying to hunt you down. The mask is also all wrong. It looks too goofy. The teenage characters are too annoying for words. When they're on screen i was rooting for Michael to take them out. One character that everyone thought was annoying was Tina. She was slightly nerve-wracking but her sacifice in the end made her a fairly likable character in the end. The movie is extremely slow. i understand when movies move gradually to build suspense but there are scenes in this film that just waste time. Such as the scenes with the two goofy cops. what was that all about? I understand that a series in its 5th installment needs to go into a new direction to stay fresh but the direction this film goes in is totally wrong. They should've stuck with the ending of part 4 and done something with that instead we get a new plot twist("the man in black") that is revealed in the 6th film but this plot thread buried the 5th and 6th film in my opinion. It just seems out of place.
*SPOILER*
Their biggest mistake was A)Killing off Rachel and B) If you're going to kill her don't kill her so early in the film. She was the heart and soul in the 4th film and she is killed within the first 20 minutes. Big mistake on the filmmakers part.
As you can see i was very disappointed with this film especially since it followed the far superior 4th installement. In the case of this series i'm glad they kept making films until they got to H20 just so they could finally do one worth watching.