Do I like Halloween 5? I truly don’t know. There are some entertaining aspects, but overall it’s pretty bad.
Anyway, here are some random thoughts I wrote down in the Notes app while watching it this time:
- Perhaps the funniest thing Michael Myers does in any Halloween movie is shimmy out of a well and then float down the river as he does at the beginning of this movie
- Why is Dr. Loomis still (constantly) hanging out with…
Who is Creighton Duke, and why does he know about how Jason can jump between bodies, the very specific rules for how Jason can be reborn, and the only means by which he can be killed (all of which information has seemingly only been introduced now, in the 9th movie of the franchise)?
Also: I want a Creighton Duke spinoff series.
(I watched the unrated cut this time.)
I expected to like this movie a lot, given Denis Villeneuve’s track record and my enjoyment of the book, but it still exceeded my expectations. It looks amazing, the score was weird and awesome, and the story stuck pretty close to the book for most of the key elements.
Still feels like half a movie, which it is. They need to start making part 2 today!
