Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988, Horror/Other, 1h 28m
28 Reviews 50,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Halloween 4: The Return Of Michaels Myers may bring the series' masked killer back into the fold, but fails to offer the visceral scares and inventiveness of the original. Read critic reviews
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Dr. Samuel 'Sam' J. Loomis
Rachel Carruthers
Jamie Lloyd
Michael Audrey Myers
Dr. E. W. Hoffman
Sheriff Ben Meeker
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Critic Reviews for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (20)
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You can tell that it felt very rushed and things were kind of clobbered together to make this movie at the last second.
November 1, 2019 | Rating: C+ | Full Review… -
I need to state for the record that Donald Pleasence is a truly great actor... But he also loved to chew the scenery, and the middle period of the Halloween franchise gave him plenty to sink his teeth into.
October 19, 2018 | Full Review… -
Fourth entry in the Halloween horror series is a no-frills, workmanlike picture.
August 27, 2007 | Full Review… -
The shocks are infinitesimal, the script diabolical.
June 24, 2006 | Full Review… -
It seems the latest stage in some curious evolutionary pattern; the slasher species keeps proliferating and getting weaker at the same time.
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H4 is very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
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Jan 10, 2018Halloween 4 may just be good because it reintroduces everyone's favourite pale-faced psychotic to the Halloween franchise, that was so clearly suffering from a Michael Myers shape void, evident in entry three, season of the witch. It may also be good because of the young, now a horror veteran Danielle Harris' performance as Jamie - Laurie Strode's abandoned daughter - who is really good in the film. Or it could just be that the film ups the ante, ups the gore and thickens the soup of the story. Either or, The Return of Michael Myers is the best of the franchise after the original Halloween.Harry W Super Reviewer
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Feb 16, 2016In Halloween 4, Michael Myers' sister Laurie is dead but her daughter Jamie has survived. And Myers is after her now. The only person who seems to believe that Myers is still alive is his former doctor, Dr Loomis (played by Donald Pleasance). He is afraid that Myers will come back for Jamie and is doing what he can to protect her. Not much more to say for this film but that it inaugurates the second trilogy and that it is necessary to watch the films in this order if you want to see the second trilogy unfold. Believe it or not, this is very different for a film series like Star Wars. With those films, several of them can stand alone. With the Halloween films, they have to hang together in some ways.Billie P Super Reviewer
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Mar 12, 2015I don't know which of the four (or five, by this time next year) different Halloween timelines to consider the "official" one, but I guess personally I've always considered the one the includes the "of Michael Myers" movies to be it for me. Not necessarily the best movies, but its the longest timeline, and (not counting Season of the Witch) the first. Halloween 4 is a good lead in for the rest of this particular continuity. It's certainly not a perfect movie, but if you're looking for some background kills to accompany your October vibes, you could do worse.Gimly M Super Reviewer
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Oct 24, 2013After a disastrous third installment the Halloween franchise rights itself with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Ten years after his reign of terror Michael Myers awakens from a coma and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois to kill Laurie Strode's daughter. Donald Pleasence returns once again and newcomer Danielle Harris gives an impressive performance that carries a lot of charisma. The storytelling's also pretty good (as far as slasher films go) and has some interesting twists. There are a few plot holes and some bad acting, but overall Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers is a solid horror film.Dann M Super Reviewer
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Quotes
| Dr. Loomis: | Micheal? Why now? You waited 10 years. I knew this day would come. Don't go to Haddonfield. You want another victim? Take me. But leave those people in peace. Please, Micheal. God damn you. (shoots Micheal) |
| Dr. Loomis: | Micheal? Why now? You waited 10 years. I knew this day would come. Don't go to Haddonfield. You want another victim? Take me. But leave those people in peace. Please, Micheal. God damn you. [shoots Micheal] |
| Dr. Loomis: | You're talking about him as if he were a human being. That part of him died years ago. |
| Dr. Loomis: | Six bodies! Sheriff that is what I have seen between here and Ridgemont! A filling station in flames! I tell you, Michael Myers is here in this town! He's here to kill that little girl and anybody who gets in his way! |
| Sheriff Meeker: | It's over? |
| Dr. Loomis: | Yes...Yes it is. Michael Myers is in hell, buried, where he belongs. |
| Dr. Loomis: | Yes. Yes it is. Michael Myers is in hell, buried, where he belongs. |
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