Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Michael Pataki
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 25, 2006
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- (unspecified) - English
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Reviews
The best of the sequels to Carpenter's seminal slasher movie.
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.
It's nothing more than a slick Hollywood movie that's relatively harmless and never all that scary.
Of all the Halloween sequels, including the irrelevant and unwatchable Halloween III, Halloween 4 stands out as the best of a generally uninspired lot.
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