Halloween 5 History: Because Halloween 4 had done surprsingly well, as it had brought back popular characters Dr. Loomis and Michael Myers, work was almost immediately started on a fourth sequel to the original hit. Moustapha Akkad and his Trancas International Productions hired producer Ramsey Thomas to recruit Michael Jacobs to pen the script to the fourth sequel, from a story formulated by Jacobs, director Dominique Othenin-Gerard, and Shem Bitterman. It was to pick up one year after the last one, as the movie would be released on year after the last one. So, in Michael Jacobs' story, Jamie Lloyd (again played by Danielle Harris) was now in a childrens' hospital in Haddonfield, and because of her ordeal in the fourth film, she could no longer speak. Meanwhile, Michael Myers had apparently survived a task force shootout and lived with a hermit for a year, until he killed the hermit and went on his way, again after his niece, who was apparently his last living relative. This time, however, Jamie had a telepathic link with her uncle, and knew where he was all the time. Dr. Loomis tries in this story to use her psychic abilities to stop Michael from killing again. Time after time, he fails, as most of the teenage cast is killed off. In the end, Loomis for some reason uses the girl to lure Michael to his house, where he traps him in chains and has a stroke. At the police station, a mysterious "man in black" (referred to in the scripts as "The Stranger") breaks in and shoots everyone with a machine gun while Jamie waits outside. When she goes in, Michael is no longer in his cell...HALLOWEEN 5:
THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS was again distributed by Galaxy Pictures and hit theaters in October of 1989. But audiences were again disappointed. The story power did not match that of the original and its sequel, and did not seem like a worthy successor to The Return of Michael Myers. The film had made several mistakes and had several flaws. These mistakes and flaws are practically innumerable, as the fifth entry in the series was definitely not the most powerful. One of the many mistakes was killing off Ellie Cornell's character, Rachel, early into the film, even though she had survived all of the carnage-ridden "Return" in 1988. Another mistake was all the stupid and unlikable characters, such as the two dumb cops who instigate stupid clown theme music and are eventually (and thankfully) killed off by Michael; and the assortment of teenagers that had to have been set up to diminish the definition of this movie to another "teen slasher flick", who add to the stupidity of this film. Another flaw is that the Myers House is now a totally different castle-type, 18th century dwelling place that looks nothing like the house in the original. The movie also sets up the story for a Part 6 without knowing quite what it is doing, with a mysterious "Stranger" in a black trench coat and wing tip shoes walking around throughout the whole film and eventually rescuing Michael from the police station. He and Michael both have a branding on their wrists of a mysterious symbol of "Thorn"... |
