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Tear Jerker / Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

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  • The scene where Michael is called uncle, sheds a tear, takes off his mask, and reels back in shame when Jamie tries to touch him could be considered Narm. But, consider this; Michael may be FAR from sympathetic, but it seemed that there was at least some bit of humanity in his heart. Considering he never openly takes any joy in killing (just pure emotionless killing, with some sinister tendencies), this implies that Michael is a slave to evil. A disease that can never, EVER be cured. And for a moment...he knew this.
  • Earlier, the death of Deputy Charlie while protecting Jamie from Michael inside the Myers House. Up to his last breath, he tried to comfort Jamie in spite of the circumstances and commended her for her bravery (while taking Loomis to task for endangering Jamie by using her as a means to the end of stopping Michael once and for all).
  • Jamie seeing Rachel’s Peek-a-Boo Corpse in the attic. As if she hadn't been through enough up to that point. Danielle Harris's performs "Rachel NOO!" so convincingly both with her heartbroken scream and look of despair, that you'll be reaching for the tissues soon.
    • If that's not bad enough when Jamie hears Michael walking up the stairs, she asks Rachel's lifeless body to help her, really setting in the reality that the very sweet and genuine Final Girl of Halloween 4 is gone forever and that besides Loomis Jamie has no one to protect her from Michael with Rachel, Tina and Deputy Bloch dead.
  • When Jamie reaches Michael's empty cell she utters a heartbreaking "No...No!", Halloween 6 makes it worse with the knowledge that she was kidnapped straight after, the poor girl couldn't even mourn Rachel and Tina in peace and her nightmare was sadly far from over.
  • During an earlier scene in the movie, Rachel is seen with mascara running down her face, implying she was crying out of sight of Jamie and her friends over what Jamie was going through.
  • Jamie having an emotional breakdown as she desperately begs Tina not to leave for the party.
  • Jamie trying to hide from Michael says the single most heartbreaking line in the film, “Please don’t let him get me, please god”, for an otherwise rather goofy slasher movie this is a genuinely hard-hitting line that highlights the utter injustice of Jamie's situation.
  • While Tina wasn't exactly the most likeable character ever, it's disheartening to see her get stabbed to death while trying to save Jamie, her final words after being stabbed was a tearful plea for Jamie to run, and worse still is seeing Jamie tearfully shout her name after her death and breaking down when she sees her corpse get carried into the ambulance, for all of Tina's many flaws her death highlighted that she was a genuinely Nice Girl willing to die to protect Jamie.
    • Also considering how goofy Tina was as a character, her death is played painfully serious and Wendy Kaplan does a very good job portraying her final moments, with her closing her eyes before Michael stabs her and lying there bleeding to death, weakly shouting at Jamie and Billy to run.
  • Rachel's death, seeing the badass and genuinely loveable final girl of the previous film get stabbed to death 20 minutes into this film is heartbreaking considering the hell she went through in 4. It's also worse when you realize that the final thing she saw before Michael killed her, was a picture of Jamie that Michael destroyed, so like Tina she knew that Jamie was in danger but couldn't save her this time and that her final "No" wasn't just for her own life but Jamie's too.
  • The death of badass cop Sheriff Meeker is a tough blow considering how likeable and competent he was and that he dies in the last minute of the film.
  • The death of the hermit at the beginning, he saves Michaels's life, lets him recover at his house for a year and what does he get in return? Ruthlessly and pointlessly murdered, talk about No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

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