Halloween 4 – The Return of Michael Myers
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TEN YEARS AGO, HE CHANGED THE FACE OF HALLOWEEN. TONIGHT, HE’S BACK. A decade ago, he butchered 16 people trying to get to his sister. He was shot and incinerated, but still the entity that Dr. Sam Loomis (the legendary Donald Pleasence) calls “Evil on two legs” would not die. Tonight, Michael Myers has come home again…to kill! This time, Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris of HALLOWEEN 5 and THE LAST BOY SCOUT) – the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode – and her babysitter Rachel (Ellie Cornell of HALLOWEEN 5 and HOUSE OF THE DEAD). Can Loomis stop Michael before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece? Michael Pataki, Sasha Jenson and Kathleen Kinmont co-star in this smash sequel that marked the long-awaited return to the original storyline and remains infamous for its startling twist ending and graphic violence.Amazon.com
“You can’t kill the bogeyman,” the children insist to a terrorized Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the original Halloween. How right they are. Laurie is gone, but guess who’s back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? Acting as if the third entry never existed, this installment picks up 10 years after the original, with mad maniac Myers in a coma and moved to a new facility. But wouldn’t you know it that as soon as a loose-lipped orderly lets slip that Myers has a surviving niece he springs back into action, leaving a bloody trail of corpses on the road to Haddonfield. Donald Pleasance returns as Dr. Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage. Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an aging hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorized by her homicidal uncle. Director Dwight Little has managed a generic if professional slasher picture, rife with improbabilities and dominated by a killer whose superhuman powers reach near-mystical dimensions, but he delivers the goods: shocks, stabs, and cold, cruel killings. –Sean Axmaker
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September 12th, 2009
This film is a pile of crap. The actresses/actors are horrible, with the exception of Donald Pleasence. The characters were annoying. The plot was very very weak. Halloween 3 may not have had a different plot from the others, but it is MUCH BETTER than this fourth installment.
Screw this. The first 2 and Halloween 3 are the only good ones.
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September 12th, 2009
After Halloween 1 & 2,I expected this reunion sequel (10 years later) to be awesome.Not even close. One reviewer here commented that the dumb hick town made it worse,agreed. One part has a bunch of fat rednecks going on a “witch hunt” for Myers but wind up shooting one of their own.So we’re supposed to care about these scabs? The character of Jamie Lloyd is equally distasteful.A snotty brat who gets teased by classmates. Myers still wears the same coveralls from part 2 and just happens to find his favorite mask in a dime store. Dr. Loomis now appears as just a bumbling shrink instead of Michael’s concerned psychologist. Plenty of scenes copied the original.This movie is a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of the first two. A real joke.
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September 12th, 2009
Halloween 4: -The Return of Michael Myers. -Is the best shocker since the Original. -Halloween 5. -Was great. -I
felt cheated when I saw this movie when I saw the Advertisement
comercial’s on T.V.
But I enjoy it. -Even on DVD Today.? -I wish they do more
with the DVD. -With Deleted Scenes in the Movie.
But it’s great Entertaiment.? -I like the Town’s new Sherriff
Sheriff Meeker. -He looks like a Spinning Image of. -Clint
Eastwood. -He is Care Free. -And Helps. -Loomis. -Donald
Pleasense. -Ben Meeker. -Bue Star.
Helping Rachel’s Step Sister threw her Horrible Halloween
night with Michael stalking her at every turn.? -And kill’s
every one like in. -”Halloween II.”
The VHS been great. -Now I have it on. -DVD. -It’s a classic campy and Hockey Sequel.
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September 12th, 2009
I like all of the halloween movies but this one is boring until about halfway through. Im glad that Michael is back but i still would rather watch the first one. Danielle Harris is what really makes this movie good. She is a very good actress she is one of the reasons i didnt turn the movie off.
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September 12th, 2009
This movie is way too predictable and just the same as many other sequels. It lacks the unknown tension that the original has. But on the upside you get a good but breif sex scene and some funny deaths and a good opening scene.I thought it was alright. Like I said before, if you’re a hradcore Halloween fan watch it but if not you”l think it sucks. Thats all it boils down to.
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