Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers

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Summary: Almost As Good As The First
Review: H4 surprised me. It is a very well written horror movie, continuing the Michael Myers story. 10 years later, Michael and Dr. Loomis have survived, and Michael is back in Haddonfield, trying to kill Laurie Strode's daughter, Jamie. Although Jamie Lee Curtis is not in this one, the dark atmosphere and new set of characters make the movie very good.

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Summary: Better than 2, but not as good as the original.
Review: Halloween: The Return of Michael Myers, is a great comeback after the simply average "Halloween 2" Back in Haddonfield, Michael is ready to kill again. This time, he is after his nine year old niece, Jamie, who lives in his hometown of Haddonfield. Great scenes in the locked house, especially when Michael's mask "glows" when they show Rachel and the police officer talking. All in all a very well made sequel, with more to offer than many think.

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Summary: A Work In Progress
Review: Ten years later after the first massacre, Michael Myers who was presumed dead by most after getting crisped in a oxygen tank explosion escapes from a mental hospital and goes after his niece Jamie Loyd (Harris). Although still nothing impressive, a steady improvement from the past few sequels.

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Summary: WHAT A GREAT COME BACK
Review: I thought the movie was great. It had a good plot and wonderful killings. The part where Micheal Myers escapes from the ambulance and crashes it into the water wow! If you are a fan of horror movies, or like the Halloween series this one is for you.

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Summary: halloween 4 returns the fear back into the tied series
Review: before i first watched halloween 4:the return of, i was expecting a tied formular with a mike myers trotting around more like a robot than the bogeyman, but i was in for a large suprise.I sat there in fear, the halloween series had finnaly released a sequal worthy of the name. michael was finnaly back in the shadows, stalking his victims. the film was far better than it's slasher rivals that were released that year:Friday the 13th part 7, Nightmare on elm st 5.

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Summary: It's October 31, 1988..and HE is coming home again
Review: "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" is actually quite a good continuation, despite what some people say about sequels. It picks up 10 years after "Halloween II" ended. Michael Myers ends up in a coma after being blown up in the operating room in II. He awakens when being transferred to another hospital after he overhears he has a niece in Haddonfield, Jamie Lloyd, the daughter of Laurie Strode, who is dead (or so we thought). He ends up traveling to Haddonfield and here we are treated to what made the original such a success. Less blood, more suspense, tight scenes and a dark atmosphere are all prevalent in this entry. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is now scarred and crippled after also being blown up with Myers, and he teams up with Sheriff Meeker (Beau Starr) to stop what could be a repeat of what happened 10 years before that. With Jamie Lee Curtis absent, the "scream queen" duties fall to Ellie Cornell as Rachel, Jamie's step-sister. She does a terrific job and she has some great lines in this one. The ending is definitely the best of the whole series, and it still gives me the creeps to this very day. Rent Halloween 4 for a good scare.

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Summary: Halloween turns into a parody of itself
Review: The first Halloween was a horror classic, the second was a respectable rehash. The third was an ill-conceived attempt at something different. With this Halloween movie, the series turns into a big joke. The story is completely by numbers, the acting is horrible, and the dialog is probably the worst I've ever seen in a horror movie. Even Donald Pleasance looks like an idiot, trying to keep a straight face while saying his lines in that aweful make-up. The movie has a totally generic feel. OK, there are a few scenes that make you jump, but these are cheap thrills. The ending was a good try, but not believeable. This was the beginning of the end of the Halloween series!

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Summary: Pretty Good!
Review: This turned out to be a good sequel. Though not as good as one and two, it still deserves a rental.

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Summary: Truly the Ultimate Halloween sequel
Review: In the age of teeni-bopper horror films, it's easy to see how Halloween 4 often goes under appreciated. It doesn't have the hip young faces of H2O, and it was made 11 years ago, which is enough to turn most teenage viewers off these days. But to the real Halloween fan, The Return of Michael Myers stands out easily as the best sequel in the series. It retains suspense and sheer thrills instead of abandoning them for gore like the misguided Halloween II (which was good in its own right), and concentrates on pure atmosphere and suspense playing out like a true homage to Carpenter's original masterpiece. Halloween 4 was shot beautifully, and this DVD truly helps to unlock that aspect for real fans too young to see the film in theatres. The opening scene is filled with bright, changing colors reminding one of Argento's Suspiria, and the shots of Haddonield during the fall are beautiful and professional capturing the essence of fall. The acting is good, the story first rate for a third sequel. Pleasance is superb as the obsessed Loomis and George Wilbur plays a fine Michael. All in all, Halloween 4 is a perfect sequel, that expands on Carpenter's original premise but at the same time carries out its task with an obvious great respect for the original.

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Summary: Ten Years Later
Review: Halloween 4 was a good movie considering it was made ten years after the original. In this movie, we see Laurie Strode's daughter Jamie Lloyd for the first time. Apparently, Laurie had died in a car accident, in H20 we find out that Laurie had actually faked her death to hide from her psychotic big brother. When Michael escapes while being transferred to another psychiatric hospital, he decides to search out his one and only living relative in young Jamie Lloyd. Donald Pleasence is great in this movie as we see that he too survived the explosion at the end of Halloween 2. Since Dr. Loomis is the only man who truly knows what Michael Myers can do, he is the only hope for Jamie Lloyd. In a movie that is criticized for being just another bad sequel or another bad slasher flick, it is not that bad at all. The acting is not as bad as in Halloween 5. There are no exploding heads like in Halloween 6. There is no Michael Myers who walks like he has something shoved up in an interesting place like in H20. Most importantly, there are no evil Irish mask makers like in Halloween 3. If you are a Michael Myers fan, you will truly enjoy this movie.