I don’t hate the film there are just aspects of it I do not like. I agree the mask is very cool. I used to not like it until I saw this one. I realized how cool the mask really is. I love it. One of my favorite masks
Not one of my favorites but i still like it. As someone said earlier when i was a kid i watch 4 and 5 alot so i have a special place in my heart for it lol. The Myers house is a joke, why so big and why does it look so different, and the mask is ok.
Donald Pleasance was in it…that’s a plus.
Actually liked the car mask…somewhat a plus.
Good Halloween atmosphere…another plus.
The chick wearing the devil costume was hot and I loved the 69 Camaro…both pluses.
That’s really about it however. The “Keystone cops”, the mute kid, the “psychic link”, Tina…Tina…TINA!!! ALL negatives.
The man in black thing was entered here as well and that was a huge mistake in my opinion. So many wrongs but there were times when it was ok.
At one time this was the absolute low point in the series. Now I feel RZ’s H2 and Resurrection own the #1 and #2 spots for the lowest points in the franchise’s history.
I like H5 but more because of a nostalgic feel I think.
What I do like is the “halloween feel” that a lot of you guys mentioned and I really like the mask. Shanks was cool as Myers too. It was cool to see Myers don the Brute mask as well.
Some kills were also cool but Tina was awful…the mute kid was annoying…and also as mentioned here earlier they really dropped the ball when it came to picking up where H4 left off. H4 was actually a solid sequel and it might have kept going if H5 had actually been any good.
I rank h20 and Resurrection as my least favourite followed then by H5.
Tina was so annoying, that you just gotta love her 
Halloween 5 is one of my top favs to be honest, it was one of the first ones I ever saw and it really scarred the piss out of me when I watched it when i was a kid. The mask is awseome as well…it has a disturbing look about it and the movie really does have that good 80s’ Halloween feel to it. but lol the clown cop music is a bit on the downside.
the ONLY Halloweens i’m not a huge fan of is H20 and Ressurection…H20 is decent but Ressurection was by far attrocious…Mask was ok, but it just wasn’t a real Halloween sequel to me. And I HATED the idea that H20 and Ressurection both wanted to ignore the original 6 films. No sense in that I think. Danielle Harris played too great a role in 4 and 5 for them to just “forget” the others even happened.
H5 was a pretty good movie…Could have been better with out the following Cop Theme Music, Clown Noises, Tina and billy haha
I can see how someone would not like H5, but I just love it’s incredibly bleak atmosphere. Michael was just so evil, and I like how he was portrayed as insane rather than supernatural.
I like part 5. I thought Don Shanks was a very good Michael Myers. I like the mask and the assortment of weapons he used. Sure it has its flaws but its decent sequel. Much better than the atrocity of Halloween Ressurection. #DonShanksArmy
HALLOWEEN 5 is my fourth top favorite in the series because of its atmosphere, Danielle Harris & Donald Pleasence’s acting, and the ending to me was the most depressing and sad. 
The film has the BEST OPENING with the SLASHING KNIFE and JACK O’ LANTERN over the credits and with Alan Howarth’s creepy score that slowly emerges into the HALLOWEEN. That was JOYGASM the first time I saw it back in March 1998 (right after I rented HALLOWEEN III: Season of the Witch for the first time).
The best chunk of the movie for me was the TOWER FARM setting where the majority of the murders 
and chases take place. I love the dark atmosphere and ember-colored look of the place; and has that cool HAUNTED HOUSE HALLOWEEN MAZE vibe going on because you can’t tell where THE SHAPE lurks. The CAR CHASE was pretty suspenseful when Jamie is put in peril to be killed by being run down by a car. The Woods, where Tina was killed and Jamie & Billy escape into, has a dream-like nightmare look with the fog, dark trees, and the way the cinematography captures those shots. Kudos to Robert Draper the DP and Director Dominique Othenin-Girard.
Come on Alan Howarth, with that HALLOWEEN 5 Expanded Edition Soundtrack! 
A bad film to be sure, but unlike Resurrection, it at least has a couple things to admire about it. The laundry chute sequence is appropriately tense, and Howarth’s score is a bit more experimental and creepy this time around. Danielle Harris also does a pretty good job as Jamie. It’s just too bad they keep her mute throughout most of the film.
Ressurection is just terrible. Tyra Banks!? Busta Rhymes!? The kid from American Pie!? It’s absolutely the furthest thing from a Halloween movie out all of the sequels.
It’s the first Halloween film I ever saw in its’ entirety (a mistake though) so it holds sentimental value. I think if you edit out all of the stupidity (most of the clown cops, most of Spitz, some Tina stuff, The Shape playing with his chains, The Shape tearing up, the Loomis rage talk) it’d be pretty good. Some things couldn’t be fixed really, like the Man in Black, and the huge Myers house (could have been explained as the grandparents’ home), and the fact that most of the characters stunk or were written out of character. The score (minus the guitar junk and bad 80’s bands) is excellent- it has some amazing atmospheric pieces, the cinematography is nice (some shots are great), and Shanks had a more graceful movement to him than other post-Castle Myers’. The pacing during stalking scenes and the like was also excellent (for example Loomis roaming through the house in the daytime). The script and cheese value was just a mess though. Like part VI the things it does so right are overshadowed by the plot, script, and late re-writes. Part V is the start of adding gimmicks to the series which is basically what The New Blood is to Friday the 13th, Hellraiser 3 is to Hellraiser, and The Dream Master is to A Nightmare on Elm Street; all of these entries beginning the downfall of their series’.
There are thinks i liked and things i didnt like about Halloween 5.
The things I liked: The opening pumpkin carving credits
The whole Halloween/creepy feel to the movie
The tower farm scenes and kills in the barn were cool
The clothes chute scene with Michael and Jamie was intense
Crazy old Dr. Loomis
Danielle Harris (even though i didnt like she was a mute for most of the movie)
The things I didnt like: The goofy cops and the stupid sounds that accompanied them
Spitz and Tina (though she was easy on the eyes)
The Myers house was dumb and looked nothing like the original
Michael crying ( i thought his eyes were shot out at the end of part II)
No! LOL just my opinion 
Halloween 5 is on AMC Fear Fest right now, on the part where Tina gets chased by Michael in her (dead) boyfriend’s car. All for it…! Haha.
Halloween 5 is a decent horror film on it’s own, being that it’s watchable cause of the bad acting/good suspense, but as for being a part of the Halloween franchise itself, it’s absolutely horrific.
The 4th was absolutely great as it made sense with it’s story line picking up after the unnecessary tragedy that was Season of the Witch. The movie stuck to the simplicity and eery feeling the original two had. Of course, the first two will always be the best, but the 4th gave us enough of an update and stuck to it’s original plan.
The 5th, however, was so all over the place. Michael is supposed to be a simple sociopath. He was literally just a regular skinny stiff guy who stalked his sister after being locked up in the mental hospital and has a vengeance. The 4th was good cause Michael went back to kill Laurie’s kid. This was ruined however when he came back and it was focused on a million added things that ruined everything. Now we learn that Michael is working FOR someone, a mysterious black booted weirdo who doesn’t show himself. Now, Jamie has psychic abilities and we are so focused on that scifi shit. Next is this annoying pair of cops with their own background soundtrack. Um, I’m sorry, but this franchise is focused on ONE serial killer and that is Michael Myers. His original sound was what made the movie. Messing with the music, especially in the 6th with the cheesy electric guitar crap was TOO much. Next was relationship with characters. The first and second movie focused on everyone being scared shitless and the suspense of Michael. In the 5th, there are crap jokes, too much annoying boyfriend/girlfriend drama, too many incorrect dialogue and voice movements, emotional scenes between Michael and Loomis and Jamie and Michael making him more human than a serial killer who’d not wait a second to slit your throat, and an annoying mask that didn’t fit myers. Ps, the Myers house sucked too. If they could get it I’m the last film or one similar, they could have for #5.
Other than that, it’s okay.
Agreed. It’s not a terrible movie like Resurrection or RZH2. If it weren’t for the mask being so ugly and the goofy cop duo, it wouldn’t be half bad.
I dig 4 and 5 just fine. They remind me of a lot of the later 80’s horror films. Kind of like 13th 4 and 5.
Upping the body count, upping the sex. Very formula driven.
I can watch them for fun.
H20 and Resurrection are just bad.
Ehh, yeah I liked 4 and 5, growing up in the 80’s, yeah those movies really spoke HalloweeN time to me. Good vibes, pretty good scares, but damn those idiot cops and clown noises. BUT for me, after 1,2, got to go with H6 as next favorite, the music score is more original to H1, the mask is light years better than what we have seen, looks like a severely pissed off Kirk mask, much better, violent kills, and overall a pretty scary film to watch. Also it’s on right now!! 
I personally love Halloween 5.
It was the first Halloween I ever saw as a young child. I caught it one Halloween night on my small television during the barn scenes. I watched it through to the end whilst my mother and godmother chatted downstairs and it absolutely stayed with me. I was seeing Myers in mirrors, in the shadows, in the corner of my eye for days.
It’s a very strange movie, one made by an arrogant director and a carefree cast and crew - it was rushed into production and filmed with a half-written script. But there’s something about it that just brings me back. Dr. Loomis fully unhinged. Jamie Lloyd at her most vulnerable. The mysterious tattoo and the man in black. The rich Gothic atmosphere of the farm and the Myers house. The chilling cinematography and the sheer balls behind some of the action. Rachel’s death was a bold move, so was actually having Jamie get stabbed (even if they did cut out the actual shot of her being wounded).
Don Shanks does a great job as Myers, too. Even though he’s a big guy, he wasn’t relegated to being a Jason-esque rampaging brute. The mask removal is incredibly touching and so different to the expectations of a slasher sequel.
I plan on getting the Thorn tattoo done soon, and it will be the only tattoo I’ll probably ever have. I’ve wanted it for years, with the two dots next to the symbol unlike in Curse.
If I never saw it, I wouldn’t have experienced the original as early as I did and I may not be the fan that I am today!