10 Movie Cliffhangers Nobody Cared About
8. Michael Gets Broken Out Of Prison - Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is a film that broke the audience's spirit early on and basically never recovered from it.
After Halloween 4 ended with a genuinely tantalising cliffhanger which suggested that Michael Myers' niece Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) had inherited his killer instinct, the fifth film opened by basically negating it.
The rest of the movie plays out rather dispiritingly, before Michael (Don Shanks) is captured by the police and set to be held in custody until his dying day.
Except, of course, that doesn't happen.
Instead, the movie ends with a mysterious man wearing all-black breaks into the police station, murders all the cops, and sets Michael free.
Even with the genuine mystery of the Man in Black's identity, it was tough to give much of a damn about this cliffhanger after the previous movie's considerably more compelling one was a massive cop-out.
And as it turned out, the sixth film's explanation - that a cult of druids were behind Michael's liberation - didn't exactly impress many fans anyway.