Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Reviews

Young Ms. Harris is probably the movie's most powerful element.

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Feels more like an obligatory teen slasher than the previous films...but gets the job done.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

The best of the sequels to Carpenter's seminal slasher movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Fourth entry in the Halloween horror series is a no-frills, workmanlike picture.

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Although this is just more of the same old same, Halloween 4 is directed with some skill by B-movie specialist Dwight H. Little.

Full Review | Original Score: C

The shocks are infinitesimal, the script diabolical.

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One of the best chapters of the series...really novel

| Original Score: 3/5

While Part 4 is better than Part 3, it is still worse than, say, being bitten in the retina by fire ants.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Boy, this one's rich.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It seems the latest stage in some curious evolutionary pattern; the slasher species keeps proliferating and getting weaker at the same time.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

...[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...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

And in the faint praise department: "Halloween 4" is just a little bit better than most of the sequels that followed.

| Original Score: 2/5

The first half of the film is better than any fourth sequel in a slasher flick franchise deserves to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Of all the Halloween sequels, including the irrelevant and unwatchable Halloween III, Halloween 4 stands out as the best of a generally uninspired lot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

H4 is very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral.

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| Original Score: 1/5

| Original Score: 0/5

| Original Score: 1/5

| Original Score: 1/5