Feels more like an obligatory teen slasher than the previous films...but gets the job done.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
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Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 5
Rotten:18
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: This fourth installment of the series takes place ten years after the original and finds the man in the William Shatner mask in a coma and being transferred from Richmond Mental Institute to... This fourth installment of the series takes place ten years after the original and finds the man in the William Shatner mask in a coma and being transferred from Richmond Mental Institute to Smith's Grove. However, the van gets into a horrible accident, skidding off the road and exploding. Predictably, Myers' body is nowhere to be found in the wreckage, alarming both the skeptical police and the indefatigable Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Soon, Myers is spotted back in Haddonfield, and it becomes obvious that his next target is his young niece, Jamie (Danielle Harris). His return has whipped the town into a frenzied mob, which proves to be unfortunate for the Halloween revelers who have chosen the popular "Michael Myers" mask as their costume. Often considered the best of the sequels, THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS is a return to form for the series after the debacle of HALLOWEEN 3. [More]
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Michael Pataki
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Michael Pataki
Director: Dwight H. Little
Director: Dwight H. Little
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Reviews for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Though it is a slasher movie at all points, it's an atypically intelligent example of the form...a quantum leap better than its two immediate predecessors.
Fourth entry in the Halloween horror series is a no-frills, workmanlike picture.
Although this is just more of the same old same, Halloween 4 is directed with some skill by B-movie specialist Dwight H. Little.
While Part 4 is better than Part 3, it is still worse than, say, being bitten in the retina by fire ants.
It seems the latest stage in some curious evolutionary pattern; the slasher species keeps proliferating and getting weaker at the same time.
...[Donald Pleasance's Dr. Loomis] doesn't once refer to Myers as "pure evil," though he does call him "evil on two legs" which is almost as good...
And in the faint praise department: "Halloween 4" is just a little bit better than most of the sequels that followed.
The first half of the film is better than any fourth sequel in a slasher flick franchise deserves to be.
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