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.
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08/03/08
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... [More]
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Michael Pataki
Director: Dwight H. Little
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Reviews for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Feels more like an obligatory teen slasher than the previous films...but gets the job done.
10/28/08
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07/29/07
No review available.
11/20/03
And in the faint praise department: "Halloween 4" is just a little bit better than most of the sequels that followed.
07/26/02
No review available.
06/14/05
While Part 4 is better than Part 3, it is still worse than, say, being bitten in the retina by fire ants.
11/29/03
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02/18/07
No review available.
08/26/02
Boy, this one's rich.
11/02/03
Although this is just more of the same old same, Halloween 4 is directed with some skill by B-movie specialist Dwight H. Little.
08/18/06
It's nothing more than a slick Hollywood movie that's relatively harmless and never all that scary.
02/13/01
It seems the latest stage in some curious evolutionary pattern; the slasher species keeps proliferating and getting weaker at the same time.
05/20/03
No review available.
07/01/05
...[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...
04/19/03
Of all the Halloween sequels, including the irrelevant and unwatchable Halloween III, Halloween 4 stands out as the best of a generally uninspired lot.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
12/07/02
The shocks are infinitesimal, the script diabolical.
06/24/06
The first half of the film is better than any fourth sequel in a slasher flick franchise deserves to be.
01/27/02
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