Michael Myers takes a licking and keeps on ticking

The film opens with scenes from its predecessor, in flashes during the opening credits. Virginal heroine Rachael(a returning Ellie Cornell) runs over psycho-killer Michael Meyers, and Meyers falls into a mine which is blown up by the police. Everyone as usual, thinks that's the last they'll see of the pasty-faced, knife-welding killer with family issues until it's revealed that not only can Michael drive, and leap off buildings, but he can also swim.

A year of blissful ignorance follows, and Jamie(Danielle Harris) is locked up in a psycho ward for emulating uncle Michael, and has during a brief mind-meld with him, established a telepathic link, which foreshadows every single attack by Michael in the movie, thus ruining its suspense. Rachael, who has lost her pure look and has taken to putting on makeup and skimpy clothing, and her tag-along Tina(Wendy Kaplan, overdoing the ditzy dervish bit) visit, before one of them is mercifully dispatched by Michael, hence the word revenge in the title, I guess.

The inevitable spilling of blood follows in Meyers' every footstep, except for a brief interlude where he pulls on a mask of a different sort, and takes Tina out, posing as her boyfriend, whom he skewered only minutes before. Finally, he has had enough of this chatty Cathy, and leaves her at a gas station. Her reprieve from the slasher doesn't last long.

Harris is properly wide-eyed and scared throughout. Whether awaiting her fate in Michael's long abandoned haunt, or running through the field, with her uncle in hot pursuit. Donald Pleasance, sliding even further into dementia, entertains as always. His death has taken away a lot from the series that's appealing.

The plot shifts from being disjointed, to downright chaotic, with the introduction of the Mysterious Walking Dude, who initially looked like he walked out of Stephen King's The Stand, but his character never comes to fruition here and even with guns blazing, never piques one's interest enough to wonder exactly what his motives are in this film

Needless to say, Michael prevails through it all, but whether or not he gets his "revenge", it's hard to say. The title really has nothing to do with this movie.