My familiarity with the Halloween series was always less than Friday the 13th and Nightmare because I found these films much scarier. I was even less familiar with this particular sequel and found watching it again that I remembered little of it in detail.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
You don’t expect any horror movie sequel to be better in
any real measurable way than its predecessor. Sure, I feel that Friday the 13th Part VII: The NewBlood is the best in the series, but that’s splitting hairs. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
breaks the rule by being a noticeable improvement over Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Interestingly, the main
characters and the story are not all that dissimilar. The differences are all
in Dominique Othenin-Girard’s direction.
