by Ian » Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:31 am
Turned off Halloween 5 last night. Oh dear. Despite featuring many of the same cast as the excellent 4, this one really stinks. Bottom of the barrel stuff. Killing off one of 4's female leads inside the first 10 minutes is a HUGE mistake, and it just gets worse from there. (And the less said about the whole 'Man in Black' subplot, the better ). As is often the way when the filmmakers know they've got a loser, there's also an enormous amount of gratuituous gore (which 4, like the original, mostly did without) to try and hide the fact it's a stinker. It doesn't work.
Both Donald Pleasance and Danielle Harris deserved better than this