OK so in my last Halloween blog post I talked about Halloween 4: The Return of Michael ending my post by talking about how the film ends with Loomis sinking to the floor sobbing after witnessing Jamie in a costume like Michael wore as a young boy after having stabbed her adoptive mother, and how this lead us to believe that for one reason or another be it something in her blood, the trauma she had suffered or some kind of curse passing from her Uncle when they touched that Jamie would become the franchises new killer. So did Jamie go on to take Myers place? Well judging from the fact this fifth film in the series is called Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers, I think we can safely assume that the answer to this will Jamie be the new evil is a firm nope, no she will not.
Halloween 4 is basically a normal continuation to the 5th film its just the fact that the 4th ended with a sort of teaser for something that wasn't followed through on. The main reason for this is that Halloween 5 was rushed into production without a finished script, and also Halloween 4’s writer-director duo Alan McElroy and Dwight Little decided not to return for the sequel. Apparently they didn’t believe that they could improve on there previous film but to they did assume that their Halloween 5 replacements would follow what they had set up at the end of Halloween 4 and explore the idea of Jamie having somehow inherited Michael’s evil.
The first screenwriter hired to write the screen play for Halloween 5 Moustapha Akkaddid did actually turn in a screen play which used the idea of Jamie having become evil. However this script got thrown out and a new one was put in place which smoothed over the end of 4 explaining Jamie hadn't killed her step mother and putting Myers plainly back in the seat as main and only Villain of the series. Its interesting to note that Donald Pleasence the actor who played Dr Loomis found this supremely disappointing, telling Fangoria magazine, “I think they should have gone along with the fact that the little girl is now totally evil. I was disappointed that we now discover she did not kill her mother at the end of the last film.”
To simplify the events of the 5th film without giving the ending away I would explain its plot with the following. After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers wakes up and makes his way back to his hometown so that he can continue to try and kill his niece, Jamie, who due to the trauma of her past experiences has been confined to a mental institution. Dr Loomis suspects that there is a psychic link between Michael and Jamie and so he joins up with Sheriff Ben Meeker to try to use this in an attempt to stop Michael.
To be honest the film does connect to the last entry in the series pretty well in all honesty even if it decides to tie up and cut of several loose ends in a way which allows the series to return to the path most predictable, but given how the last major swerve from this path Halloween 3 season of the witch was treated its not all that surprising. You know its funny how when you look at films there is often more than one movie, there is the movie which was made and released and there is the one which is cast in to the shadows, the one which could have been but never got to live. While I enjoy Halloween 5 I cant help but think that in this case the more interesting film was the one which never got to live beyond a script.
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