Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

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Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Beau Starr, Sasha Jenson

Michael Myers escapes from the sanitarium, and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois to search for his only living relative.

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  • clooneyfan
    October 31, 2009
    clooneyfan
    I watched this 20 years later and somehow it seems laughable! Not as scary as when it first came out!
  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    Not great. Michael Myers is not scary at all but good ole Donald Pleasence and a nice twist ending make it watchable. For hard core horror fans/completist only.
  • sononothing
    April 22, 2009
    sononothing
    This is where the Halloween franchise began to spin out of control into oblivion. Michael Meyers is back, even though we saw him practically reduced to ash in Halloween 2. This time he's back to kill his niece Jamie (Danielle Harris) because he's just weird like that. Look out Ha...( read more)ddonfield.

    Halloween 4 is just a cheap attempt at keeping the franchise alive amongst the Jason and Freddy movies that were making tons of $$$ in this era. Yeah, those weren't very good either. Michael goes around slashing teens and whoever gets in his way. What's hard to understand is how a guy who was burned to death (almost) and lying in a bed for most of the Reagan administration can be strong enough to thrust his thumb into another mans forehead. But hey, if that Voorhees kid can do it.

    And while we're at it, why in the hell does everyone feel the need to transport him so close to Halloween. Hey, let's take him out of maximum security on the night he gets a woody to slash some family. I know that something like this is like picking lint out of a belly button, but it just furthers the case that Halloween 4 was thrown together schlock.

    The only redeeming thing about the film is Donald Pleasence, who returns as Dr. Sam Loomis. Even in this low budget slasher he is still a great actor who gives an uncredible film credibility. He's riveting, but it's still not enough to save this film.

    So as an entry into the unkillable killer genre of the 1980's Halloween 4 is low rent, which like I said isn't saying much considering what we were getting into (think Manhattan). Completists can't even really hop on this film since future films ignore this one. Sadly, this film is a notch above another- the remake.
  • QueenCityFilms
    March 8, 2008
    QueenCityFilms
    Holy ASS this was fucking terrible - laugh out loud funny at this piece of shit...utterly ridiculous
  • AgentLexi2132
    February 3, 2008
    AgentLexi2132
    Pending Review...

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  • jordonjojosmith
    December 16, 2009
    jordonjojosmith
    i want to see this soooo bad
  • cuzofthebrat
    December 4, 2009
    cuzofthebrat
    I only saw a little bit but, it's okay. I'm sure it can't be all about Laurie Strode, so the niece was an okay pick. But the mask is a little on the fake side.
  • itbegins2005
    November 30, 2009
    itbegins2005
    I guess it's a pretty solid tradition that every ten years or so, someone has to re-invigorate the Halloween franchise, usually by disregarding something of what came before. There was Halloween H20, which marked the twenty-year anniversary of the first film and ignored a decade'...( read more)s worth of Halloween sequels, and there was Rob Zombie's Halloween remake, which was released nearly thirty years after Carpenter's original- but before either of them was Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, a film meant to wash away the foul taste of Halloween III by returning the franchise to its slasher roots and resurrecting the eponymous villain Myers, who had (to all appearances) burned to death at the end of Halloween II. Part four is the start of what I refer to as the "Jaime Lloyd Trilogy": a storytelling tangent in which Michael chases not Laurie Strode but her seven-year-old daughter, Jaime (in this tangent, Laurie died in some sort of accident before the start of 4; this storyline was ultimately ignored so that Halloween H20 could feature Laurie as the heroine again, which is why I gave these films so little credence until recently). While it has its moments of patchy production values and questionable creative merit, Halloween 4 is easily the best of this vestigial trilogy, conjuring the spirit of the season more ably than any other Halloween film (Carpenter's included), introducing a new, even more wholesome and adorable lead to the Halloween franchise (one that gives us access to a child's perspective on the holiday, something lacking in most of the sequels), and bringing it to a close with perhaps my favorite ending from ANY slasher film: a sequence that starts with an homage to the original film's P.O.V. opening, and ends with Dr. Loomis screaming in horror as he discovers that little Jaime Lloyd is a chip off the old block. The movie opens with a heavily burned, nearly catatonic Michael Myers escaping during a hospital transfer when he learns of the existence of a single living relative- seven-year-old Jaime, who, being recently orphaned, is living with a foster family, and has a repeating nightmare of being attacked by the boogeyman. When Halloween arrives, Jaime goes trick-or-treating with her foster sister, Rachel, little suspecting that her uncle is on the hunt for her- and that he is in turn being hunted by the inexplicably un-exploded Dr. Sam Loomis, whose conviction that Michael is evil incarnate has not wavered with the passing of a decade. But even with the full cooperation of the sheriff's department and a gun-toting militia of pot-bellied locals, on the alert after what happened ten years ago, patrolling the streets, can Loomis track down Michael before he can get his hands on Jaime? Short answer: no. As per most horror sequels, the cast is primarily fresh faces, since almost none of the original characters carry over from previous films (and one of the two who does is wearing a mask). Jaime, our kinda-sorta main character (it's a split between her and her sister on that count) is played by ten-year-old squirt Danielle Harris, probably the most precocious child actor to ever come out of an eighties film- she's a real little actress, who can apparently cry on command and screams like she's in mortal terror better than even Jaime Lee could. The character is just a kid, but she's a bright kid, and Harris conveys that sort of natural brightness that you really need to identify with a child protagonist- no wonder they brought her back, somewhat illogically, as the hero in part five. Splitting good-guy duties with Harris is Ellie Cornell as Rachel Carruthers, a good-hearted and unaffected teen who has to spend Halloween babysitting instead of going out with her boyfriend, which she's nice enough to do without (much) complaint since she has a pretty strong bond with Jaime. Cornell is, well, unaffected, just an average-seeming teen, and what primarily sets her apart and makes you like her is her motherly relationship with Jaime; the two have a natural rapport, and more than anything you want her to pull through for Jaime's sake (the foster parents are virtual non-entities for most of the film, laying down rules and going off to do their own thing). Returning for a third round against Michael is the horribly burned Dr. Sam Loomis, played once again by the great Donald Pleasence, who, like Michael, must be made of some pretty stern stuff to have survived the massive explosion at the end of part two. Loomis is the same doom-preaching Ahab we've come to love after the first films, the only real difference being an undercurrent of weariness, some scar make-up, and a cane. He's the unifying force of the film, keeping up the spirit of a real Halloween movie when everything else seems to be slipping too close to a Friday the 13th knockoff. Something that doesn't help this slight sense of decline is Michael himself, played by stuntman George Wilbur, whose appearance is so non-threatening that the film is at its most impotent when he shows his bland face on screen. The new mask is too white and featureless, the hair shapeless and uninteresting, and the costume is actually padded to make him appear bigger, giving him the impression of a giant plush doll rather than a monster or serial killer; I wouldn't be surprised if all he wants from Jaime is a big, cuddly hug. (more to come)
  • ythelastman89
    November 18, 2009
    ythelastman89
    Brutal and relentless like the previous two, it's always good to see Michael killing. They sort've went the Friday the 13th route and just made Michael unstoppable and almost superhuman in strength. His ability to shove a rifle through a girl's stomach is quite amazing. They kept...( read more) the style of the first two, which was really nice. It fits in perfectly with the story. Danielle Harris was great even back when she was little and Donald Pleasence was crazy as always.
  • ilovetheeightiesforever
    November 15, 2009
    ilovetheeightiesforever
    stupid movie, the first halloween movie is the best, part 2 was okay but the rest totally suck
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