Championing Lowbrow Since 1973
This movie is titled Halloween 5 because there were four previous movies in the series. Sorry. This is the best I could come up with. After so many of these back-to-back my brain is mush.
Although the films are set on Halloween, Jamie is the only child in the series to go trick or treating. This is depressing. The children should at least get some candy. I mean, even death row inmates get a final meal of their choice.
While in captivity in the Silver Shamrock factory, Dr. Challis is forced to watch the Horrorthon Movie, Halloween. This is not a subtle nod that this is another Halloween movie despite it’s lack of Michael Myers.
Dr. Loomis tells Marion, “Samhain… isn’t goblins or ghosts or witches.” This is a subtle nod to the clever change coming in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. That is, the film Halloween will be about a mad Irishman making three deadly children’s masks (jack-o-lantern, skull, and witch) and not Michael Myers (in a William Shatner mask).
I tried to get tickets to Haddonfield High’s prom by calling the listed number, 779-6861. I was thwarted because the number was incorrect, just like all the phone numbers strippers—who clearly loved me in the Boom Boom Room—have given me as I followed them to their cars at the end of their shift.
