Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (Divimax Edition)
by Dwight H. Little
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Actor: Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur, Michael PatakiDirector: Dwight H. Little
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Producer: Anthony Masi
Producer: M.N. Sanousi
Producer: Moustapha Akkad
Writer: Alan B. McElroy
Writer: Benjamin Ruffner
Writer: Danny Lipsius
Writer: Larry Rattner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (Divimax Edition)
DVD Review: Probably The Best Sequel in The Halloween Series
Summary: 4 Stars
Halloween 4 is probably the best sequel (or just plain entry) in the Halloween series. That being said, this is the movie where Michael Myers stops being merely an escaped lunatic from an asylum wearing a mask and becomes something almost as unstoppable (and therefore kind of uninteresting) as Jason Voorhees from the 4th rate 'Friday the 13th Series'. Michael Myers can seemingly do anything and be anywhere ... there's no escaping him and so the tension is never amped up like it was in the first, classic 'Hallween.' BUT -- the creative team behind this movie actually put together a really good slasher movie. What would degenerate into Halloween's 5 and 6 and sub-mental movie-making hasn't happened yet, and Halloween 4 delivers something almost as restained and suspensful as the original. Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell are a cut above the normal teen victims, and Donald Pleasence delivers his best performance as Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist bent on destroying his escaped mental patient. In fact, Pleasence manages to wring some sympathy for his character in this movie. And of course, Michael Myers remains the best ongoing character in a slasher series. Even at his worst, he's still better than the Jasons and Freddies of the movie world. Part of it is that great mask, part the John Carpenter music, and part the fact that even as cheapie entries go, the Halloween franchise at least tried to deliver some top-shelf shocks. Halloween 4 is the best entry in the series (after the first) ... it holds a place when he was walking the line between escaped murderer and all-knowing and all-powerful superbeing. It's the last time Michael Myers isn't completely invincible.DVD Review: Brilliant ending
Summary: 5 Stars
In Haloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers, (as suggested by the title) Michael Myers returns (Halloween III having been a completely separate movie and not featureing Michael Myers). It has been 10 years since the events of Halloween and Halloween II and Michael escapes once again, this time while bein transported between institutions in an abulence, this time determined upon killing his niece, Jamie.
Lorrie (Jamie Lee Curtis) in not in this movie. We are instead introduced to her daughter, Jamie, neice of Michael Myers, a girl who is about 7 years old and has horrible nightmares about her Uncle and is teased by the kids at school because her Uncle is "the boogeyman".
Michael Myers makes his way to Jamie in Haddonfield, leaving behind him a bloody trail of corpses.
I wasnt very impressed by this sequel (especially after the greatness of Halloween II). The story-line isnt that great and there is a long period of time in the middle of the movie where there are no killings. However, the reason I gave this movie 5 stars insted of only 2 or 3 was because of the twist in the end which I thought was absolutley brilliant and made up for the rest of the movie not being so good, in my opinion.
DVD Review: You've really got to be kidding me...
Summary: 1 Stars
Suddenly, as the film opens in Halloween 4: The Return of Micheal Myers, we as the viewer are subject to some odd little facts that just suddenly happened. Jaimie Lee Curtis is nowhere to be found, she suddenly has a daughter, Loomis is at his looniest and SOMEHOW survived the explosion in 2 (impossible) and on top of THAT, he lived threw it all with only a few visible scars on his face...
Need I mention that Micheal was shot in both eyes in 2, but has them back (but some strange turn of events) in 4...
I know a lot can happen in "10 years", but i mean some of this stuff is just ridiculous...
While i respect the attempt made here...it was a terrible attempt...
and yet, they went on to make 2 more terrible follow up movies...
no good...
DVD Review: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought it would be awesome to review this movie on this day! Ten years after Michael tried to kill his sister, and six years after Dan Challis saved the kids from dying from the Silver Shamrock masks, Michael comes out of his coma and wants to kill his niece, Jamie Lloyd. Dr. Loomis tries to stop Michael from doing that. Jamie lives with the Carruthers family. Her step-sister Rachel has a big date on HALLOWEEN, but the babysitter broke her ankle at the ice rink, so Rachel has to babysit Jamie. When Rachel takes Jamie trick-or-treating, Rachel sees her boyfriend with the Sheriff's daughter. Soon, Michael comes after Jamie. Some rednecks try to stop Michael also. Jamie, Rachel, Brady, and Kelly all get stuck in the Sheriff's house with Michael inside. If you love the HALLOWEEN series, you'll love HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS!!!
p.s. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
DVD Review: Michael Myers Returns to Kill His Niece (And Wages A One-Man War Against Haddonfield)
Summary: 4 Stars
HAPPY THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY, MICHAEL MYERS!!!
In the fourth installment of the "Halloween" franchise, it is October 31, 1988 - ten years after Michael Myers massacred sixteen people. We learn that Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) and Myers survived the hospital fire. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her husband have been dead for eleven months. Their eight-year-old daughter, Jamie, is living with foster parents. Myers escapes while being transported from one psychiatric hospital to another; he is determined to travel to Haddonfield and kill his niece.
How can this be when Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode in "Halloween: H2O?" She is very much alive and has a son, not a daughter. In order to rationalize away the lack of storyline continuity, I pretend that installments four through six occur in a parallel time universe. Now that we've settled that, on with my review.
"Halloween 4" has a large body count; Michael Myers is stronger and more ferocious than ever. He is now very similar to his number one serial killer competition, Jason Voorhees. Myers likes dismembering his victims. He leaves a bloody mess at the crash site of the ambulance, the garage, the police station, and the sheriff's house. Unfortunately, most of the killings are done off screen; we only see the gruesome aftermath.
Naturally, Donald Pleasance gives an excellent performance as the fire-scarred Dr. Loomis. The real star, however, is Danielle Harris who portrays sweet little Jamie Lloyd. It is quite nerve wracking to see her being relentlessly pursued by Myers. There is quite a bit of grisly violence throughout this Halloween night. The most memorable scene is when Myers slaughters a truck full of rednecks.
The ending was quite shocking. It leads one to believe that the evil that possessed Michael Myers has found a new body to inhabit and that the nightmare has begun again.
"Halloween 4" is a must see for fans of high body count slasher films, especially the ones that dominated the theatres in the mid-eighties. Fans of Michael Myers won't be disappointed. However, they must keep telling themselves that this Myers is from a parallel universe and that Laurie Strode will eventually appear in a later sequel.
Description of Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (Divimax Edition)
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."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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