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
Movie Reviews of Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers (Divimax Edition)
Movie 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.
Summary 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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