History Film / Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Michael is eventually apprehended by the police, but Dr. Loomis suffers a stroke, and the mysterious Man in Black appears at the last second, killing Sheriff Meeker and most of Haddonfield's police force. Jamie discovers their bodies and Michael's empty cell, weeping as she now knows the terror is far from over and no one is there to save her this time.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: It looks like [[spoiler:Rachel is going to reprise her role as the one who survives, but ends up getting killed twenty minutes in]].

* GrossUpCloseUp: Michael impaling Spitz with a pitchfork while [[DeathBySex doing his girlfriend.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Tina sacrifices herself to give Jamie a chance to get away from Michael.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Rachel]] is apparently saved from an attack by Michael when Dr. Loomis phones her and warns her to run out of the house, and the police even get involved. Turns out it was a CatScare and Michael does some slashing when everyone's gone.

** Michael is locked in a cell and one of the officers is going to take Jamie home. Then the Man in Black shows up and everything goes to Hell.

* CoolCar: Michael procured a nice, black 1969 Camaro from Tina's boyfriend, [[NamesTheSame Michael]]. Sadly, he destroys it by crashing it into a tree.

** Despite being comic relief figures who view themselves as poor cops, Deputies Tom Farrah and Nick Allen display fairly good judgment. They are understanding about being called on an apparent false alarm and while they do fail to find Michael in the ensuing search, he is notoriously elusive and may not have been in the house the whole time. When Loomis demands that they stop Tina from leaving the hospital, the deputies point out that as a civilian, he has no authority to order the detention of a girl who hasn’t done anything wrong. Nonetheless, they understand that Loomis is right to he worried and do agree to follow Tina to the party and protect her. When Tina and her friends prank the deputies by faking a Michael Myers attack, the deputies rightfully point out that this could have turned into a DeadlyPrank and got someone shot. They [[CryingWolf only overlook Michael later on due to justifiably thinking the teenagers are pranking them again.]]

** The VHS box proclaimed "The face of Michael Myers...REVEALED!". Michael does indeed unmask in this film but you only see a FaceFramedInShadow and a close up on his eye. Besides, you get to see Michael's face in the original Halloween anyway after Laurie pulls off his mask during the struggle at the end of the film.

* PuppyLove: Jamie and Billy.

* ModestyTowel: Rachel wears one at one point.

* ContinuityNod: The previous film opened over scenes of a farm decorated for the holiday. Later on in this movie, Samantha urges Tina to join her at a party--"The farm's parties always rock!". This is probably the same place.
* CoolCar: Michael procured a nice, black 1969 Camero from Tina's boyfriend, [[NamesTheSame Michael]]. Sadly, he destroys it by crashing it into a tree.

* AbortedArc: The thorn tattoo and the man in black were originally intended to have a much larger and clearer role in the film, but cut footage left these artifacts in the final cut without explanation, confusing audiences for years until ''Curse'' explained them.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler:Rachel's corpse is in relatively good shape after being left in less than ideal conditions in the Myers house attic]].

* StockSubtitle: Though oddly enough, while promotional material repeatedly invoked the ''Revenge'' subtitle, the theatrical release didn't actually include it.

* {{Homage}}: Deputies Nick and Tom were created as a tribute to the bumblings cops in ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''.

* PoliceAreUseless: The Haddonfield Police Station gets massacred ''again'' in the end, including Sheriff Meeker this time.

* AdaptationDecay: A sequel adapted from [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers someone else's sequel adaptation]], which was itself adapted from [[Film/HalloweenII1981 a sequel adaptation made by a team mixed of people from]] [[Film/Halloween1978 the original film]] [[Film/HalloweenII1981 and new crew members.]] Thus...
** The filmmakers chose, for some insane reason, to try to pass off a freaking ''mansion'' as the Myers house. This film apparently thinks the Myers were millionaires rather than an average middle-class couple in suburbia. The "Myers house" here doesn't even remotely resemble the same home in which Michael killed his sister.
** First Michael was [[Film/Halloween1978 a mysterious, motiveless, psychopathic, and potentially supernatural murderer]]. Then he was given [[Film/HalloweenII1981 a sister and a familial motive]]. Then he was given [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers a niece to go after, so obsessed was he about this familial motive]]. Here he falls as far as ''shedding a tear'' when Jamie asks to see his face. It's one of the most appalling and out-of-character things the series ever did to Michael.
** Loomis, the man who the entire series through had been correcting anyone and everyone who'd call Michael a man ("This is no man."), the man who understands ''better than anyone else on Earth'' how inhuman and deeply, darkly, truly evil Michael is, falls to the point of stupidly, irrationally breaking character by trying to appeal to Michael's emotions and "human" side to stop him (and, of course, failing miserably). On top of that, Loomis in this film is incredibly harsh with the terribly traumatized Jamie, unrelentingly grabbing her, screaming at her, and haranguing her to force information out of her no matter how terribly uncomfortable and upset she clearly is, and even ''uses her as unwilling bait to lure Michael into a trap''; it's all very hard to watch. Loomis is never treated worse by the series than he is in this film.

* AdaptationDecay: A sequel adapted from [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers someone else's sequel adaptation]], which was itself adapted from [[Film/HalloweenII1981 a sequel adaptation made by a team mixed of people from]][[Film/Halloween1978 the original film]] [[Film/HalloweenII1981 and new crew members.]] Thus...

* AdaptationDecay: A sequel adapted from [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers someone else's sequel adaptation]], which was itself adapted from [[Film/HalloweenII1981 a sequel adaptation made by a team mixed of]] [[Film/Halloween1978 people from the original film and new crew members]]. Thus...

* AdaptationDecay: A sequel adapted from [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers someone else's sequel adaptation]], which was itself adapted from [[Film/HalloweenII1981 a sequel adaptation made by a team mixed of people from the original film and new crew members]]. Thus...

** First Michael was [[Film/Halloween1978 a mysterious, motiveless, psychopathic, and potentially supernatural murderer]]. Then he was given [[Film/HalloweenII1981 a sister and a familial motive]]. Then he was given [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers a niece to go after, so obsessed was he about this familial motive]]. Here he's falls as far as ''shedding a tear'' when Jamie asks to see his face. It's one of the most appalling things the series ever did to Michael.

** The ending of 4 had Jamie kill her step-mother and set her up to become the next killer in Michael's place (or alongside Michael). This film decides to contrast that setup, retconning the step-mother's murder with a simple wounding and having Jamie's attack be a one-time freak incident as a result of her psychic connection with Michael, leaving her to be an innocent victim instead of the new killer the previous film intended to set her up as.

* AdaptationDecay: A sequel adapted from someone else's sequel adaptation, which was itself adapted from a sequel adaptation made by a team mixed of people from the original film and new crew members. Thus...

** First Michael was a mysterious, motiveless psychopathic and potentially supernatural murderer. Then he was given a sister and a familial motive. Then he was given a niece to go after, so obsessed was he about this familial motive. Here he's falls as far as ''shedding a tear'' when Jamie asks to see his face. It's one of the most appalling things the series ever did to Michael.

** Loomis, the man who the entire series through had been correcting anyone and everyone who'd call Michael a man ("This is no man."), the man who understands ''better than anyone else on Earth'' how inhuman and deeply, darkly, truly evil Michael is, falls to the point of stupidly, irrationally breaking character by trying to appeal to Michael's "human" side to stop him (and, of course, failing miserably). On top of that, Loomis in this film is incredibly harsh with the terribly traumatized Jamie, unrelentingly grabbing her, screaming at her, and haranguing her to force information out of her no matter how terribly uncomfortable and upset she clearly is, and even ''uses her as unwilling bait to lure Michael into a trap''; it's all very hard to watch. Loomis is never treated worse by the series than he is in this film.

** WordOfGod is that they couldn't find a matching house like the one from the original film, so they went with the big mansion because the plot required it.
** A minor, but still noticeable one--Michael lurks behind a tree on the Carruthers' front lawn to observe Rachel when she comes home. However, there was no such tree in the previous film.
* ShootingSuperman: This trope gets referenced in the commentary track - in a scene where a cop clumsily shoots at Michael, one of the commentators mentions that, as a lifelong resident of Haddonfield, the guy should have realized shooting Michael just pisses him off.
* SingleTear: Strangely enough, Michael has a SingleTear moment... before reverting back to his evil self.

* SlashersPreferBlondes: [[spoiler:Samantha of course is killed. Likewise blonde Rachel didn't get to survive this film. Notably brunette Tina survives much longer than either of them]].

* StealthHiBye: Micheal pulls off some pretty epic ones. He kills Rachel, but hides the evidence and himself so well that Tina has no inclination of what's happened when she stops by and he manages to get Rachel, Max, and Mikey's body to the attic in the Myer house with no one seeing him.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: The fate of [[spoiler:Rachel Carruthers and Ben Meeker]].

* WhereItAllBegan: Loomis sets up a trap for Michael in his childhood home, the location of his StartOfDarkness.
* WouldHurtAChild: Uhm, hello? Aside from the fact that he's spent the entire last movie as well as this one stalking and terrorizing his elementary school aged niece, Jamie, let's not overlook the fact that Michael nearly mowed down her PuppyLove Billy while chasing them down in a car.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The opening credits has someone carving a pumpkin lantern, which is shown with quick cuts that makes it seem that someone is being stabbed.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The advertising repeatedly claimed that we'd get to see Michael unmasked in this film. Not only was this never really that big of a deal since he'd been clearly seen unmasked in the ''original'' film (both as a child and an adult), when he eventually does unmask himself he does so while in the shadows, so we never actually see anything of interest.
** There is a Freeze-Frame Bonus moment near the beginning of the movie, when Michael wakes up in the hermit's shack. With the hermit in the foreground, an unmasked Michael, in the background, sits up. Even though he is in a dark corner, if you look closely you can see his face clear enough to see him glance at the hermit, then his mask which is hanging nearby.
* NotNowKiddo: Tina doesn't take Jamie seriously when Jamie begs her to stay, though this is because she thinks Dr. Loomis' obsessive nature has made Jamie needlessly paranoid.

* PimpedOutDress: Jamie's Halloween costume is a princess dress. Tina's costume ain't too shabby either.

* SceneryCensor: The "big cookie woman" poster.
* SeriesContinuityError: In the original ''Halloween'', the Myers house is a modest two-story home. In this movie, it's a huge, Gothic-style mansion. Then when we get to the next film, it's back to being a typical two-story house that still looks completely different from what we saw in the original film. At the time these movies were made, they were on the same continuity as the first one, so there's no excuse for the discrepancy.