A year following the fall of Michael Myers, he's back. Nursed back to health, Myers once again is in pursuit of his niece Jamie. Jamie is now mute and in a mental facility under the care of Dr. Loomis. She now shares a mental link with her uncle and may hold the key to stopping Michael and this time Loomis vows to put and end to Myers once and for all.

The Revenge of Michael Myers was a step in the right direction after the last two sequels, but is still a jumbled mess of a film. The opening sequence is almost a direct rip off of Frankenstein as Myers is befriended by an old blind man while he heals up, then boom, we are back on Halloween Night and Michael is looking for Jamie and Loomis is once again caught in the middle.

The scene I truly love in this installment is when Loomis finally loses it and gets medieval on Michael's ass with a 2X4 and a tranq gun. It was good to see the old man finally vent and get a little bloody on a guy who has used him as a bitch for the last few years. Also in this chapter Michael finally takes the mask off.

The story and the effects are lame and the kills are sorry at best, mostly kids at a Halloween party, go figure. They also dispose of most of the characters from part 4 in about the first twenty minutes of this film. Then there is the ending, I'm not sure what it was supposed to be, but it at least makes you wanna see what’s going to happen next or where the story will go.

3/10

This was easily my least favorite of the Meyers themed Halloween sequels. The kills are adequate, but a subplot involving a man in the steel tipped boots is annoying from the word go (not to mention left completely unresolved in the worst ending this series has to offer).

I also have a real problem with any movie that explains a year between sequels with Michael just lying comatose in an old guy's shack waiting to wake up. Give me a fucking break, already. This is Michael Meyers man. At least have him hiding out near his old house or something. That's just a total lack of creativity.

And speaking of the Meyers house, what the fuck? They changed the design of the building in this film to accomodate the chase sequences in the final act. Since these changes in no way resemble the look of the Meyers house in the previous films, the decison was unrewarding to say the least.

I also loathed the design of Meyers mask this time around. Sliding away from the Shatner theme, what we get here is a mask that makes Michael appear as if he's constipated the entire time.

Throw in some really bad acting (Ellie Cornell demonstrates that she was destined for House of the Dead here) and you have a definite low point of the series.

However, Prime is dead on concerning Loomis's ass whuppin' sequence. Man, the old guy really goes batshit on his nemesis with that 2x4, and that combined with some good gore - as well as a really creepy, stylishly filmed chase sequence involving athe little girl and a car - earn this otherwise mundane entry:

Five out of Ten moments when I realized big bad Mike needed an injection of life into his franchise.