Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard 

Writers: Michael Jacobs, Dominique Othernin-Girard, Shem Bitterman 

Composer: Alan Howarth 

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, Jeffrey Landman, Tamara Glynn, Jonathan Chapin, Matthew Walker, Wendy Foxworth, Don Shanks 

More info: IMDb 

Tagline: He's Back With A Vengeance 

Plot:  One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute niece.

 My rating:  6

Will I watch it again?  Doubtful.

After watching HALLOWEEN KILLS (2021) the other night, it seemed like a good time to finish this series since I've only ever seen the first four. 

I don't know what else you can do with a simple character like Michael Myers but this isn't all that bad of a direction.  All you do is change the person he's going after and let a shitload of people around them get slaughtered.   Start the film off by eating up time with a re-cap of the previous film and change a little here and there, and then jump into the present-day story establishing everything you need to in order for the plot to happen.   Donald Pleasence has some batshit crazy moments that make this worth watching.  There are some fun kills and Howarth does a serviceable job with the score.  The laundry chute was a nice sequence so at least there's that.  Oh, jesus.  I almost forgot about the two idiot cops and the horrible Mickey Mouse silly music Howarth vomits up when they're on screen.  It's just terrible and is very much out of place.  At least they died, albeit offscreen which robbed me of cheering Michael on.  Shame, that.