10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers (1989)

In dealing with the aftermath of the prior film's last-minute twist, Halloween 5 takes some unexpected routes that actually work surprisingly well.

Rather than having Jamie be a serial killer in this one, she's still just an innocent girl. She suffers from a psychological link with Michael, meaning that she can sense when he is near her loved ones and see what he sees, at times. This may sound kind of dumb (it is), but it's the characterizations the film builds off of this that are so brilliant.

Loomis straight-up hates Jamie and thinks she is destined to become a monster just like Michael. The only reason he's left her alive is that he is trying to use Jamie's connection to Michael to find him and kill him once and for all. And he is more than willing to sacrifice her to put an end to it all.

This relationship, bolstered by Pleasence's full-blown scenery-chewing madness as Loomis and Danielle Harris' surprisingly poignant portrayal as Jamie, is great. Jamie isn't just a passive victim like she was in Halloween 4, here she gets to continuously be an active participant in her own story. And after several films teasing his descent into insanity, seeing Loomis go stark-raving mad, to the point that he's ready to murder a young girl if he has to, is incredibly fulfilling.