Absolutely Fantastic

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Ten years after the events of "Halloween" and "Halloween II" (which both took place on Halloween night, 1978), Michael Myers escapes captivity a second time and again returns to his hometown in Illinois with a direly concerned Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) hot on his trail. Myers goes after his sister's daughter, Jamie, and is willing to take down the whole town of Haddonfield if necessary."Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) ranks with the best 80's slasher flicks and is actually superior to the somewhat overrated progenitor of the genre, "Halloween" (1978). Whereas the original "Halloween" was an effective low-key but classy slasher and deserves credit for starting the craze, it wasn't without flaws and "Halloween 4" (1.) fixes those issues and (2.) improves upon its strengths.For instance, while the original movie takes place during Halloween in Illinois, you certainly wouldn't know this by the footage since it clearly looks like summer. This movie, by contrast, definitely looks like it takes place during the fall and has an all-around superior Halloween ambiance with trick-or-treaters and so forth. Another example is the original's lack of drive and the fact that Michael only kills a few teenagers and doesn't seem all that formidable whilst this film features a mounting build-up of suspense and potently conveys Michael's deadly formidableness while upping the ante in the body count.Other advances includes the lack of lame dialogue (like in the original when the girls were walking home) and Dr. Loomis has much more interesting things to do than lurk in the bushes by the Myer's dilapidated abode speaking ridiculously ominous words. When Loomis speaks portentously in this entry there's great reason to believe him (take, for instance, what happens to the Police Station).Yet another (arguable) improvement is the women: Although Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes (Loomis) and PJ Soles were fine in the original, "Halloween 4" has winsome Ellie Cornell as Rachel and hottie Kathleen Kinmont as Kelly and the movie wisely takes advantage of their presence in a classy way. Rachel may not strike you as anything special at first, but as the story progresses she emerges as an attractive and noble final girl.The "Friday the 13th" franchise debuted two years after "Halloween" in 1980; and by October, 1988, when this film was released, the "Friday" franchise had no less than seven films under its belt. Meanwhile, "Halloween 4" was only the third Michael Myers movie (keeping in mind that "Halloween 3" was curiously disconnected from the Michael Myers mythos)."Friday the 13th" of course ripped-off "Halloween," but simultaneously added original components to the genre (e.g. summer camp and everything revolving around it, easily the best females in the slasher genre, as well as an increasingly devolving supernatural killing machine). "Halloween 4" sort of gets its revenge by borrowing from the "Friday" films; for instance, the character of Jamie Lloyd and what happens to her mirrors Tommy Jarvis' story arc from 3-4 years earlier. Perhaps the greatest revenge is that "Halloween 4" is better than any of the "Friday" sequels after "Part 2" and is at least as effective as "Part 2."The original "Halloween" was shot in the Los Angeles area (South Pasadena & Hollywood) while this one was filmed in the Salt Lake City, Utah, region. Like the first film, it's streamlined and doesn't overstay its welcome.GRADE: A

I prefer part 3 over this one because I found part 3 to be more enjoyable. Good story, good characters, good pacing and neat script. The reason why it's not groundbreaking to me because it's still the same movie to me. It's not the best but it's enjoyable.

After the "lousy" Halloween 3, fans were not expecting Myers to return and just left the Halloween franchise behind, moving on to something else..and then they got big news, Halloween 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS was on!! The film follows a new story with Laurie Strode's daughter, Jamie who is now Michael Myers newest target and goes after her on Halloween Night, while also killing a bunch of teenagers, because, it would'int be Halloween with out loads of teenagers being slashed to death. I remember watching Halloween 5 before 4 and thinking how bad the film could be as Halloween 5 was not amazing, this film was all over actually not that bad. The acting in Halloween 4 was actually quite decent, the writing was not something to rave over but was still good, Danielle Harris and Donald Pleasence nailed it as Jamie and Dr. Loomis, the other characters were just typical teenagers that I did not really care for, Michael Myers was really good in this film and his mask was very likable. Halloween 4 is not a Halloween 2 but a pretty good sequel!

This was one of the core movies that got me and sister into horror movies. I still love Jamie Lee so it's tough not having her in this but we had this and the original as kids and we would watch them both nonstop. It's become a bit of a tradition with me and my sister to watch parts 1 and 4 every Halloween.I know it's not as great as the original and there's fans who love the 3rd one but to me I have to say this might be my favorite Halloween ever for personal reasons. Don't hate me.