Michael, Go Home!

It is quite clear Halloween 5 (1989) was meant to lead directly to another sequel. I remember maybe last year commenting on how the ending inside the Myers house seemed fitting. If that would've been left there before the Man in Black interfered. Jamie endures a great deal. This is the stuff of childhood trauma. So Part 6 just disposing of her as it does sucks. Michael and his rage will go through anybody. Jamie's nine year old buddy, for instance, is nearly caved in by a car. Jamie sees what her uncle does, even feeling the violence as it is meted out to those unfortunately in Michael's path. Loomis is quite far gone by this film. Michael has pushed him to the brink that he'd risk Jamie's life in order to lure him in. That ending with Loomis holding Jamie and backing up so that Michael will fall under a net is horrifying in that she screams to escape. Loomis even appears to die after exerting so much energy pounding Michael with a plankboard. Beau Starr is like such a non-factor as the returning sheriff. He's in this a few minutes. It was as he's written out for whatever reason. This sequel just fed scraps to the writers of the Producer's Cut six years later with the Druids and Samhain. For the most part, 5 functions as a slasher typical, with the use of the scythe, pitchfork, three-pronged blade, butcher knife, rope, and car weapons for Michael's rage. Michael even kills a hermit who nursed him back to health! Kaplan replaces the early departing Cornell (boo!) as she found herself at the nasty end of scissors. Jamie running through the woods with Michael driving after her and later in a laundry chute her little body in tutu hoping to avoid the butcher knife are the highlights to me as is a nightmare sequence in the children's clinic.