(at around 32 mins) The bus that the Man in Black gets off of stops outside the exact same store where Jamie and Rachel went to get a Halloween costume in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).

The house that Michael returns to when recreating the hair brushing scene is not the same house design as the Myers' house in the first Halloween movie.

Don Shanks revealed in an interview that many of the scenes involving the man in black had him playing the character, because of speculation that he was a blood relative of Michael Myers. He also admitted that even the writers had not yet decided the man in black's identity.

As part of the opening, an alternate scene was shot but never used. The scene shows a man who finds Michael Myers' body at the beginning and removes his mask, staring at it weirdly. The filming of it can be seen in the documentary, Inside 'Halloween 5' (2000).

The poster depicts Jamie Lloyd in her clown costume from Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), despite the fact she wears a princess costume for this film.

Lowest grossing film in the entire series.

This film had one of lowest international theatrical distributions of the series, being seen only in Argentina, Colombia, France, Germany and Turkey. Elsewhere, it was released straight to video, with large campaigns in Norway, the UK and Spain.

Despite the subtitle "The Revenge of Michael Myers" which appears on all movie covers and posters, it does not appear in the actual film. It only says "Halloween 5" in the opening credits.

KNB Effects had designed grotesque facial makeup for Michael Myers' unmasking towards the end of the film. The producers told them to do so as an option, either showing Michael's badly scarred face or keep it in the dark. They went for the latter.

The Jamie Lloyd character has a striking parallel to the Tommy Jarvis character from the Friday the 13th series. Both characters appeared in the fourth, fifth and sixth films of their respective series. They were both about the same age in their first appearance. They both become institutionalized and develop homicidal tendencies themselves after the killer. In this film, Jamie starts out as a mute. In the fifth Friday the 13th, Tommy rarely speaks. At the end of that film, Tommy is seen holding a knife and essentially becomes Jason. At the end of the previous Halloween, Jamie is seen holding a pair of scissors and she essentially becomes Michael.

The scene where Michael Myers drives a car while wearing a different kind of mask was initially scripted to have him wear a Ronald Reagan mask. However, the idea of a Reagan mask was soon rejected in order to keep the film devoid of any political subtexts.

In an odd coincidence, the fifth film of all three of the major slasher series (Michael, Freddy and Jason) has a different title in the film than the one shown on its cover. In this one, "The Revenge of Michael Myers" is missing. In Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, the "Part V" is missing. And in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, the number "5" is missing.

When filming a scene, Donald Pleasence accidentally hit Don Shanks in the nose, breaking it. As a result, they had to cut out the nose of the mask and add on a paper thin nose cut off of another H5 mask. The edges of the nose appliance can be seen clearly in a lot of the film.

Second film in the series to begin by changing the ending of the previous film, after Хэллоуин 2 (1981).

The laundry chute scene was filmed with 30 different sections of the laundry chute. Some were full props, others were positioned horizontally to run the camera through on a dolly, and others were various sections that had cut-out portions for filming. Although the scene was very complex, it was all shot in one night.

(at around 7 mins) This is the first Halloween film to have Michael Myers with black hair. His original hair color is blonde. You can see Michael in this film without the mask twice, first when he wakes up in the cabin and again in the attic when he's in front of Jamie (at around 1h 27 mins). Tom Morga is one of two actors to have played Myers who had a different hair color. The other is Brad Loree in Хэллоуин: Воскрешение (2002).

On the DVD audio commentary, director Dominique Othenin-Girard stated actress Tamara Glynn (Sammie) became increasingly tense and 'unfeminine' as they got closer to filming the love scene between her and Matthew Walker (Spitz) in the barn. Glynn even asked co-star Danielle Harris to be on set during the filming of that scene to help ease her tension.

The car chase sequence was shot in a single night.

The last film in the series to feature a pumpkin in the opening credits until Хэллоуин (2018).

When Jamie starts sensing Michael near Billy, Dr. Loomis is walking in the hallway. The sign tattooed on Michael's wrist and the man in black can be seen on the wall behind Dr. Loomis.

The Man In Black shots were re-shot in the UK for unknown reasons with an unknown British extra. The extra was uncredited.

After filming for two weeks, Donald Pleasence gave his much bigger trailer to Danielle Harris once he left set. Harris's mother had been complaining about the small size of her daughter's trailer and Pleasence decided that she should have his.

In the script, Rachel had Tina's role, and Tina had Rachel's, with a vast change in character for Rachel. Also the script had a scene in the Myers' house that had The Shape fall through the floor into a cage in the basement, and the end had Michael escaping with Sheriff Meeker finding an empty cell, and other drafts had Meeker dying.

This was the only Halloween movie never released in Italy.

(at around 17 mins) The script added two "bumbling" cops, Deputies Nick and Tom, with their own "clown theme" in the background to homage a scene in Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972).

This is the first time Michael Myers is shown driving since the original Хэллоуин (1978). While it's obvious he drives a tow truck in Halloween 4 (right after Loomis confronts him the the garage/diner), you never actually see him behind the wheel.

The old hermit from the opening scene was originally scripted as a younger man named "Dr. Death" who had a fascination with the occult. His shack was supposed to be filled with ancient runes and tablets, and he attempted to bring Michael back to life after finding him. This scene was filmed, and can be seen in Inside 'Halloween 5' (2000).

Don Shanks was originally set to wear the same mask that George P. Wilbur had worn in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) in order to retain consistency between the movies. The mask did not fit Shanks, so a new one was made.

Donald Pleasence had disagreements with Akkad and Othenin-Girard citing that Jamie should have been portrayed as "all evil" after stabbing her stepmother, Akkad disagreed thinking that fans wanted to see more of The Shape. In an interview, Danielle Harris explained what she thought of the idea: "The way Halloween 4 ended I thought I was going to be the Killer, I thought it would have been fun to come back as the Killer or Michael's sidekick. Scary, but fun".

In terms of his appearance, the Man In Black's wardrobe of a long, black coat and black cowboy boots, is a nod to country music singer Johnny Cash, who often wore long, black coats and black cowboy boots, thus earning him his famous nickname "The Man In Black".

Director Dominique Othenin-Girard's name is incorrectly spelled "Dominique Otherin-Girard" in the opening credits.

Tina was originally scripted to wear a devil costume to the Halloween party but this was changed so that Samantha wore this instead as Dominique Othenin-Girard did not want the heroine dressed like a devil.

Although set on 31st of October filming took place in the summer as evident by the leaves still being present on the trees.

On the audio commentary for the DVD, it is stated that Greg Nicotero and Wendy Foxworth were seeing each other during filming.

Jeffrey Landman kept his pirate costume.

Mike (Tinas boyfriend) is the only person to share the exact same name as the iconic serial killer Michael Myers.

A scanned PDF copy of the shooting script exists on line. The title page reveals the moniker: Halloween 5: And Things Go Bump in the Night". The film never carried that title in any market.

The first Halloween film to go directly to VHS in Australia. It also took almost two years from its initial US release to be released in that country.

Tina's boyfriend Mike's car which is subsequently stolen by and used later by Michael (Don Shank's) is a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro.

When Michael kills Spitz by stabbing him through the back with the pitchfork when he's on top of Samantha is similar to Friday the 13th Part II (1981), when Jason uses a spear to kill Jeff and Sandra, except Michael doesn't use enough force to kill Samantha with the pitchfork also, so instead he kills her with a scythe.

George P. Wilbur, who had portrayed The Shape in the previous film, did not express interest in returning to play the role (although he did work as a stunt player on the film). Don Shanks was cast to play the speech-less, white-masked murderer. Shanks had already played a similar character in the first two Silent Night, Deadly Night films.

Unable to find a small Victorian house like the Myers House in Halloween (1978), the filmmakers chose a bigger, more mansion-like house because they needed a house that could provide wide rooms, hallways, an attic, a basement, and a laundry chute.

Danielle Harris and Don Shanks became good friends over the course of filming, reportedly spending a lot of time together while off set.

Don Shanks was also injured when he was filming the scene where the shape crashes Mike's Camaro into the tree, Dominique Othenin-Girard forgot to yell "Cut!" And fire was beginning to emerge from the car (Shanks puts this down to Othenin-Girard being sidetracked by seeing stunts take place during his first major directing job) finally stunt coordinator Don Pike told Othenin-Girard to yell "Cut!".

Don Shanks is the only person of Native American ancestry to portray Michael.

This is the first Halloween movie to contain no full frontal nudity in it.

The handgun that Dr. Loomis uses, is a M1911A1.

The film's first screenplay, which was written by Shem Bitterman, featured Jamie Lloyd and Michael Myers as dual antagonists, with a now-teenage Jamie going on a killing spree of her own, Myers attempting to kill her because she was unwittingly interfering with his own spree, and Rachel being caught in the middle. Executive producer Moustapha Akkad disliked the screenplay, feeling it felt more like a parody of the Halloween series than an actual entry in it, and also because he had already promised Danielle Harris that she would be allowed to return as Jamie, and did not think that the 12-year-old Harris would be credible as a serial killer. As a result, the screenplay was rewritten essentially from scratch by Michael Jacobs and director Dominique Othenin-Girard, though Bitterman remained credited for contractual reasons.

Don Shanks was 6'1", the fourth-shortest Michael Myers in "Halloween" history. Then below him at 6' is Tony Moran who played the unmasked Michael Myers in the first Halloween. The second-shortest at 5'10" is Nick Castle from the original Halloween. Dick Warlock in "Halloween II" was the first-shortest at 5'8-1/2", camera angles were used to make Shanks appear more taller and imposing.

Michael is shot ten times by Deputy Charlie with a, Smith and Wesson Model 64.

As well as all previous movies (but Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) where he doesn't appear), Michael Myers never runs.

The Vincent Drug store featured in in this film and the previous one can be found on Google Street view....

Karen Alston (Darlene Carruthers) reprised her role in the beginning of the film showing the anonymous person in the mask stabbing her as she falls into the bathtub of water. Her voice-over was recorded by Wendy Kaplan (Tina).

Troy Evans starred opposite Don Shanks who played Michael Myers in this film. Don Shanks and Troy were both of Jim Carrey's co-stars. Don Shanks was a stunt performer in Dumb and Dumber(1994) and Troy was Roger Podactor in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective(1994).

Matthew Walker (Spitz) starred in another slasher movie two years later in Childs Play 3 (1991) as Major Ellis however unlike this movie he doesn't die in Childs Play 3.

As well as all previous movies (but Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) where he doesn't appears), Michael Myers never talks.

Moustapha Akkad has said that one of his biggest regrets about the film was killing off the character of Rachel Carruthers. In retrospect, he would've kept her alive, but she was killed in an attempt to show that no one, not even Rachel, was safe from Michael.

In the infamous laundry chute scene, Jamie was originally stabbed in the leg but the shot was cut from the film by the MPAA because it was deemed "too disturbing" (as Jamie exits the chute, a bloody wound is visible on her leg). Danielle Harris still owns the prosthetic leg.

(at around 1h 29 mins) In the scene where Michael is ambushed by Dr. Loomis and beaten with a 2x4, Don Shanks was really hit with the plank. He later admitted in an interview that one of the blows broke his nose.

Rachel was originally supposed to be stabbed in the throat with scissors but the actress, Ellie Cornell, felt it was too gruesome an end for her character, so it was changed.

The film had been fighting an X rating with the violence, blood, and gore. Some scenes were trimmed down to keep it rated R, including a shot of Mike quivering on the ground after Michael stabs him in the head with a hand rake, a shot of glass embedded in Officer Eddy's face after Michael punches through the windshield, and Billy's leg being hit by the Camaro, the scythe that kills Samantha was originally supposed to go through her forehead.

In an article that appeared in the October 1989 issue of Fangoria magazine, director Dominique Othenin-Girard claimed that the film's ending was not scripted. Donald Pleasence stated in the same article that the film would contain the death of his character Dr. Sam Loomis.

Despite receiving third billing, Ellie Cornell is only in the film for the first 20 minutes.

Max (Rachel's dog) is the fourth dog to die in the series.

When Rachel's death scene was altered by the actress' request, it was changed in order to reflect the flashback where Jamie stabbed her foster mother in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) in a similar fashion.

Body Count: 15 (not including the opossum & dog).

2nd Halloween movie where Michael Myers murders on October 30th.