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Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (Limited Edition)

Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (Limited Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Loved This Movie
Review: It was even better than the second with a surprising ending and good acting performances!Michael still lives on in one of my favorite halloween sequels.I'm not going to say much about this movie unlike my other Halloween movie reviews that i've done so not to ruin it for people.It wasn't as frightning like some of the other Halloween movies, but it was more reallilistic and contained less errors than some of the other Halloween sequels.So please do not critisize this movie like the 3rd Halloween.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Return Of The 'Boogey Man'
Review: This is a great film, admittedly not as creepy as the first and there is a higher degree of gore/violence this time around but not overly so. The sad thing is; the events that happen in this film, and indeed parts 5 & 6 seems to be ignored in the later H20 but nonetheless it's still thoroughly enjoyable.

There are a couple of versions of this film; I found the 'Anchor Bay' version to be best, both for picture quality and features.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Maltin Type Review
Review: back on track with the original series, Halloween 4 returns to Haddonfield, where Michael Myers' niece Jamie lloyd (Danielle Harris) is living with her foster family and foster sister. But on Halloween eve, while being transported to a minumum security ward, Michael awakes from his coma and goes "trick or treating." Actually, this is the first film all over again, with Ellie Cornell replacing Jamie Lee Curtis, but what really saves this film is Donald Pleasance, who steals the film, as Dr. Loomis. Fun for fans, but really, how long can we watch this stuff?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: BEST EPISODE NEXT TO THE ORIGINAL!!!
Review: A successful redemption to a disgraceful part 3. Also took grace for all of the remainder of the sequels to come. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because Ellie Cornell didn't show skin!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: SCARIESTR SEQUEL
Review: THIS IS A VERY DARK AND SCARY MOVIE A CHILD IS BEING HAU NNTTED THE FEAR OF A CHILD IS JUST TERVING

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: only good sequelbesides 5
Review: the sequel with scares great acting litle gore yeh michales scaries movie besides the amazing 1 3678 were just bad horrible and sick they have to much gore to much cursing to much nudity

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Shockingly Bad
Review: It's frightening to think that if this movie was never made we would never have been subjected to the dreck that is Halloween 5, 6, 7 and 8. And the double shame is that even tho the story here is silly it is at least interesting. The continuation of this was the only decent thing about Halloween 5 and it may well have been good in 6 too but that movie all rearranged and jumbled before it hit out screens.

So what we have here is a collection of dull murders with bad story continuity. H20 and Resurrection pretended that 4, 5 and 6 never happened. There is no REAL backbone or history to this series. All they represent is a producer who asks us to pay money for the same thing over and over. We cannot use photocopied money to pay for our tickets at the box office so the movie-makers owe us something new. And in Halloween 4 we don't get it. In fact I'm sure that to the untrained eye Halloween 4 and 5 could very well be the same movie.

And it is SO slow! Nothing really happens for about 70 minutes worth of the movies 88 minute running time. It leaves you begging for a Jason Voorhees style mass murder spree. That does not happen I'm sorry to say. The movie cuts away at the point of every death and when it doesn't the deaths are dull and boring. A man is thrown onto an electrical power grid and...sparks fly. That's it? How about his face melting or at least getting set on fire? Plus the body count is shockingly low. What is up with the thumb thru the head? Not only is it badly shot, too quick and just plain puzzling (surely a quick neck snap would be easier and nastier) the physical possibilities of it match hammering a tack into a concrete slab. It just can't happen. I don't care how superhuman Michael Myers unexplained powers are.

The whole 'motiveless psycho' may have worked well in Carpenter's original but here it's asking for money for old rope. Carpenter used it to great effect and scriptwriter Alan B. McElroy (responsible for some awesome Spawn episodes) uses it as an excuse for lazy, unimaginative writing. Tho he has the scriptwriters strike to blame as he beat the deadline by mere hours. But even a few hours worth more imagination could have made this the tiniest bit better.

There's just not much for Myers to do. He comes out of a coma, goes back to Haddonfield and kills. For no reason. There are no sets other than houses and no opportunity for big excitement or set-pieces. I'm sorry but the 'famous' rooftop scene is boring, badly rehearsed and badly shot. Director Dwight H. Little (Marked For Death, Murder at 1600) even throws in a 10 second scene in an Elementary school for no reason. Plus the only shot of Michael in this shows him with WHITE hair on his mask. A pretty big goof, lookout for it.

Out of all the lessons in how to make an effective horror film that were were taught in the first film none of them are really echoed here. Slasher flicks by their very nature are low brow but Carpenter had a simplistic purity and charm that made it work. Plus he filmed the movie in Panavision which instantly gives it some class. Plus he used the widescreen framing well. Dwight H. Little seems oblivious to this and instead uses standard 1.85:1 widescreen with no particular flare.

And I must mention the very poor dialogue. It offers no insight into the lives of the teenagers in the story or provides them with extra character. Why are we supposed to care when they get killed. It's obvious from the beginning that they are nothing but fodder for Michael Myers. And it's a crime that when they die it's not even graphic or ugly in the slightest. Just boring and badly shot. It's not a horror film because nothing horrifies or upsets other than paying money to see it. Stay well away. Go watch a Friday the 13th movie and see the J-Man do his thang.

Anchor Bay presents this DVD in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen. The print is grainy and rather dirty. Nothing of reference quality. Sorry. There soundtrack has been remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 from the original Ultra Stereo tracks. It's good enough. One hardly expects a sophisticated soundtrack from a film of this nature. In fact I prefer it to the obnoxiously loud sound designs of more recent slasher flicks.

A 16 minute documentary, offering new interesting insight to the movie, is included. The participants don't have much to say and seem to regard the film in a higher manner than it deserves.

An original theatrical poster replica poses as the cover on a '4-page booklet' (wow-1 sheet of paper) containing some more info about the movie. The DVD itself comes in one of those beautiful Limited Edition Tins. My copy is number 05,194/40,000.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Return Of Michael Myers
Review: Michael Myers returns after after the second one where he should've burned but i guess hes still alive. Before i saw this i thought to myself that it would be nothing more than a bad sequel, but i was wrong. The story revolves over of Laurie Strodes' daughter jaime. Jaime Loyd played by Danielle Harris seems to be stocked by her uncle a.k.a. Michael Myers on a Halloween night. This new halloween seems like the other ones, but has a plot twist at the end that makes the movie a whole plethora amount better. This one I would reccomend to rent but not so sure to buy. All i can tell you is this flick is a great popcorn flick to watch in the dark.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pleasence,Cornell,Harris,Starr,and Kinmont in Halloween 4
Review: It is a great movie WARNING SPOILERS Myers has escaped his sanatariem. Dr.Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is after him again. Loomis already knows 6 people are dead.Jamie Lloyd(Danielle Harris) is in Haddonfield.Her mom was Laurie Strode. But Laurie is dead.NOT! Jamie is being babysat by her fostersister Rachel(Ellie Cornell).Now Rachels boyfriend Brady(Sasha Jenson) is mad.So Brady is going to Kelly(Kathleen Kinmont)the sherrifs daugters house.Dr.Loomis teams up with the sherrif(Beau Starr).Now they all meet at the sherrifs house for percaution of Myers.They saw a bunch of cops dead at the station. Now Kelly found a cop dead in the house.Then Myers comes and shoves a shotgun in her stomach.Now that the sherrif and Loomis have left Rachel,Brady,and Jamie alone.Myers kills Brady.But Rachel and Jamie escape out the roof.Then they get a ride with some hicks.Myers kills the hicks.Then Rachel is at the wheel.she hits the breaks and Myers flies off the car.Then some cops shoot him into a mineshaft.The rest is to suprising to tell.a hint Myers isnt in the surprise.It is a great movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I'm gladly welcoming Michael back with open arms!
Review: I'm so glad to have Michael Myers back after a disappointing part III, which Michael wasn't in, and part III has also been disqualified from the HALLOWEEN series and is now called a "non-sequel".

Anyway, part 4 focuses on Michael's 8-year-old niece, Jamie Lloyd, who is the daughter of Laurie Strode. Laurie is assumed dead after part II, so Jamie is living with foster parents and a foster sister. Jamie tries to lead a normal life, but can't escape the wrath of her "funny uncle". Even though she has never met Michael, all the kids at her school say "you're uncle's the boogeyman". But then, THAT NIGHT comes and HE comes home to kill again. Can Dr. Loomis save the day again? Can Jamie escape the evil power of Michael? Will Michael finally burn in hell? watch HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS to find out. It's a good sequel, expecially for the fourth installment in a series. (13 year old viewer.)


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