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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

October. 21,1988
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5.8
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R
| Horror Thriller

Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd -- the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode -- and her babysitter Rachel. Can Dr. Sam Loomis stop him before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece?

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Micitype
1988/10/21

Pretty Good

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Acensbart
1988/10/22

Excellent but underrated film

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Teringer
1988/10/23

An Exercise In Nonsense

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Tymon Sutton
1988/10/24

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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benfrancis-40945
1988/10/25

Halloween 4 is one of the best films within the franchise, with its simple storyline and great scenes, matching the basics of the original. Danielle Harris shines as Jamie, and Ellie Cornell is amazing as Rachel becoming the hero in the end. Donald's plesences returns as doctor Lumis and does one of his greatest performances in this entry. The plot flows nicely, and the cast and characters are highly likeable, which makes you root for them in the end, making the movie more suspenseful and engaging. Some of the best scenes are the rooftop chase, the gas station scene, the truck scene and the cliffhanger ending.

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Eric Stevenson
1988/10/26

After the commercial failure of "Halloween III: Season Of The Witch", the "Halloween" franchise decided to go back to making all of their movies about Michael Myers. I admit this film isn't terrible but it really is bad. Michael Myers returns to kill his niece. Honestly, this movie just come across as being bland. There was nothing interesting about it at all. Like all slasher movies, this was when the series started becoming repetitive. It's Michael killing members of his family and that's about it.The only thing I could really remember as being different was when the niece attacks the woman at the end. Maybe it's just because that was the end! Donald Pleasance as Dr. Loomis appears in this and he basically just gives the same speeches and the same ways to kill Michael that he did in the previous movie. This film is just pointless as Michael obviously isn't dead, but I suppose there's nothing to really hate because it's just another slasher movie, which I'm not a fan of. Those bullies took a liking to the girl rather quickly. **

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Sober-Friend
1988/10/27

In 1987 I was think the following year would be the 10th Anniversary of the original film. I knew there would be a "Halloween IV". For some reason I knew they would call it "The Return of Michael Myers". Now believe it or not I even thought he would go after his "Niece". What I didn't think of was "In the past 10 years where was he"? I saw this film opening night and I saw it again the next day. I enjoyed the film. In was a logical progression of "Where to take the Story" since (At the time) Jamie Lee Curtis said "Should would never do another Halloween". Now this film is well made. The story works and Danielle Harris was very good. The ending was also shocking and well executed. I just wish "Halloween V" would of Incorporated the new direction that was promised at the end of this".

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zkonedog
1988/10/28

After the failed experiment that was "Halloween III: Season of the Witch", the series returned to its Michael Myers-based roots with this fourth installment. Unfortunately, the end result couldn't have turned out more bland.For a basic plot summary, "Halloween 4" opens with Myers having been in a coma for the ten years after the explosion that ended the second film. However, while being transferred to a new institution, Michael wakes up and begins a new killing spree, this time targeting Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), the niece of Laurie Strode.Yep, seriously...that is the plot of this film, easily illustrating the most glaring fault of this "comeback" effort: the series was creatively exhausted after "Halloween II", so all the rest is just an excuse to make some money.Add to this the fact that the movie really isn't even scary. Whatsoever. Heck, even the Friday the 13th series had 3-4 films that were decent. This one, though, does nothing to re-establish the character of Michael Myers and eventually descends into a combination of slasher (which at times is laughable) and suspense (let's just say it ain't Hitchcock). Plus, to add insult to injury, the Myers mask isn't even the old "Bill Shatner mold" from the first two, instead featuring a cheap knockoff that isn't nearly as spooky. The final nail is driven home with the most insipid, cringe-worthy ending of perhaps the entire series.About the only redeeming factor in this movie whatsoever is the performance of Harris as young Jamie. She really does an excellent job and deserves a lot of credit for creating the only human drama element in the movie at all.Thus, though this film tried to resurrect (quite literally) the character of Michael Myers, it eventually only serves to provide 90 minutes of blandness. I wasn't expecting greatness out of the third Halloween sequel, but I wasn't expecting total boredom, either, and that is exactly what I received.

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