After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his small hometown in Illinois, intent on killing his niece, Jamie, who has been confined to a mental institution since his last attempt to slay her.
"Michael lives. AND THIS TIME THEY'RE READY!"
Top Billed Cast
Danielle Harris
Jamie Lloyd
Donald Pleasence
Dr. Sam Loomis
Ellie Cornell
Rachel Carruthers
Wendy Foxworth
Tina Williams
Beau Starr
Sheriff Meeker
Don Shanks
Michael Myers
Jeffrey Landman
Billy Hill
Tamara Glynn
Samantha Thomas
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2015-10-26
You've got to help me Jamie. You've got to help me find him. We both know he's alive.
Halloween 5: The Return of Michael Myers picks up where part 4 left off, only Michael is not dead, obviously! He's come back to Haddonfield intent on finally killing his niece, Jamie (Danielle Harris), who due to trauma has lost the ability to speak and now has a psychic link with mad uncle Michael. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is once again on hand to be nutty and spout ominous warnings, while all other folk in Myers' way are doomed.
It starts off quite promising, with shades of Frankenstein (1931) of...
G GimlyVerified TMDB Critic
2017-11-08
It's always neat when a slasher movie keeps a protagonist from its previous entry in the franchise for more than just an opening sequence. Maybe because it doesn't happen very often. _Halloween 5_ does have that going for it, as well as the standard "Invincible dude stabs some folk for your enjoyment" to a certain degree, and that's great, but beyond this there's not a whole lot good about _The Revenge of Michael Myers_. It did teach me some very incorrect things about the letter þ though, so I mean... There's that...
_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite w...
W WuchakVerified TMDB Critic
2018-08-16
Michael Myers attacks trick-or-treaters on Halloween
Michael Myers survives his descent into a mind shaft from the previous movie and holds up with a hermit for a year before returning to his hometown in Illinois to attack his niece during Halloween and any trick-or-treaters who get in the way. As usual, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is on his trail.
“Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” (1989) has the best sense of Halloween up to this point in the Michael Myers story arc with a considerable amount of the runtime involving the entertaining shenanigans of trick-or-treaters. Whi...
