Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Pros: Another fun performance from Donald Pleasence
Cons: interesting ideas are discarded for slasher cliches

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: Trancas International Films/ Anchor Bay Entertainment
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: M

Last time we checked in on Michael Myers, Haddonfield, Illinois favorite masked murderer,...

Pros: Donald Pleasance, advances the storyline a bit further
Cons: Jamie Lee Curtis is nowhere to be found, the script, the direction, not scary

The Horror Genre Is Dead I have seen a lot of horror movies in my fourteen years of ...

Pros: Solid directing, solid acting for the genre
Cons: A virtual absence of gore effect, questionable plot devices

THE (burial) PLOT Michael Myers died in a fiery inferno at the end of Halloween 2 (or so we thought). In actuality, he lapsed into a coma and was taken to a state hospital for the criminally insane. For 10 years he slept—he waited—until paramedics ...

Pros: Donald Pleasence, decent story mixed with some good chills.
Cons: Predictable was a sequel needed? Maybe not.

Halloween 4 the Return of Michael Myers from 1988 offers chills and spills in this pretty entertaining installment of the Halloween series. Dwight H Little takes the turn of dishing out another unwanted installment, but he actually makes this sequel ...

Pros: Introduction of Jamie Lloyd. Just good 80's fun
Cons: Gore is lacking, but you don't really miss it.

I will be the first to admit that I have really random things that attract me to movies. Halloween 4 and 5 are two of the movies that everyone seems to hate, but I've always enjoyed them. One of the reasons that I enjoy them is that other than Death ...

Pros: The storyline, acting and the characters.
Cons: Something about it just didn't feel right

It's 10 years after Michael Myers first attack on Haddonfield and he's now in Richmond Mental Institution. But a few days before Halloween, he escapes while being transfered to a different Hospital and goes to Haddonfield after his 7-year-old niece,...

Pros: Restrained violence; good acting; some suspense; great stalk n' chase scenes
Cons: Ending sets up a sequel, although it is rather effective

Director John Carpenter's "Halloween", revered by many as a
horror classic, was a runaway smash box office success when
released in 1978. It was so popular that another sequel had
to be made. In 1981, "Halloween II" was released and was...

Pros: Visually imaginative camera work with some outstanding scenes; parts of the movie are good.
Cons: Lame ending, familiar plot; movie doesn't realize its full potential.

"Halloween 4" was something of a surprise to me, and something of a disappointment. If I was more literate, I'd make some kind of clever adaptation of Dickens' statement "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times". However, I'm not, so I...

Pros: Some cool kills, some suspense, good ending
Cons: Needs more screen time for Pleasence, no Jamie Lee Curtis

After viewing Halloween one and two I decided to rent the fourth since three is not part of the series. I will try to view the fifth one soon. I have always found the Halloween series to be interesting and the characters involved are usually very good. ...

Pros: Has some really funny dialogue
Cons: Extremely tedious Halloween experience

It's not that I don't enjoy Michael and his endless killing, it has a way of sometimes making me laugh how he can just throw out years of memories in one slash of a sword < knives don't come that big Johnny >. But at least he sometimes makes sense...

Pros: Good gore
Cons: Michael's mask is different (slightly)

Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers takes place ten years after the original two. Michael Myers didn't die after part two but he stayed in a tight coma. Halloween night is quickly approaching and Michael comes to while being transferred to...

Pros: Michael's back! Jamie & Rachel are good heroins.
Cons: The mask looks....goofy.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers was the first Halloween film not to feature the cooperation of Writer/Director/Producer John Carpenter. Strangely, it was the best Halloween sequel to date.

Picking up ten years after the...

Pros: Well demonstrated and acted
Cons: N/A

Well here we go again in a fourth installment of the ever most popular horror flicks Halloween. Michael Myers is in an institution waiting to be delivered to a regular hospital after suffering a terrible fire that nearly killed. Come now, did they...

Pros: All
Cons: None

Yes, Michael Myers does return in Halloween
4, and so does Doctor Loomis played by Donald
Pleasence.And once more the body count piles
up.How do I rate this with the first HALLOWEEN
movie?Not as good, but still a movie worth
...