Review: Halloween 4

[Prince of Horror]

Like many movies to come out of the eighties, Halloween had a shit loud of bad sequels and this is one of them, kinda.

The story focuses on the niece of Michael Myers, Laurie's daughter, who is now in foster care. Though the girl has never met the "boogeyman" face to face, she has visions and dreams of him stalking her. But soon her visions and dreams start to come true as Michael, who has been in a hospital for years, starts terrorizing she and the town of Haddonfield once again.

Now this is when Dr. Loomis comes back to stop Michael from killing his last blood relative.

Now as I have said before, the movie is very corny. For one, you expect me to believe that after his face being burned into a crisp in the second film, that he is just supposed to be put healed, reconstructed with eyes, and a nose in this film. Then we have Dr. Loomis? He was blown up in the second, and now they give us a bullshit reason to why he is alive in this one, I think? And last what is it with him trying to kill his last blood relative? Why is he doing these things? I mean wasn't he after Laurie in the first and second. They basically just have him kill his relatives for the fun of it I guess? I'm glad that they remade this, because it was bad news from start, mainly though to sequels.

Although the movie has many faults it was entertaining. You have your basic set of characters, and some cool death scenes, mainly the face ripping scene and the one when he impales the shotgun through the girls stomach and pins her against the wall. It was suspenseful, but I still can't get over this stupid story.

One more thing about the story, why in the hell is this girl having visions by a man she has never met? She's only a child, and this would be her first encounter with him.

So this was one of those projects that definitely needed remaking, due to dumbass sequels, and I am glad they did, but just don't go into all this stuff about other relatives like this one did. Suspenseful, good death scenes, but with a dumb story, what is meant is meant for an unneccesary sequel. I give this a 5 or maybe something even lower.

[txjeff07]

Leave Michael alone dude

[woodenheart]

I have to disagree o' prince of horror. I really liked this one alot. I thought it emphasized on suspense and atmosphere...It had a dark feel that only enhanced the scary scenes. I favored the creation of a niece for Micheal Myers.

[Pinhead]

The only thing i have to say is that Jamie LIoyd piss me off!! Stop screaming like a bitch stupid kid!
For me, the 4th one is the worst one. I don't like the look of Myers.

[skybrick]

The 4th is one of the best movies in the franchise.

[Doc Awesome]

4 and 5, at least for me, ends the run of amazing to pretty good sequels in the Halloween franchise. No need to move any further past 5.

[Lemmywinks]

7/10 I rather enjoyed this one.

[BigFatOgre]

4 was a good flick. 1 and 6 are still my favorites though

[Red]

Hated the H4 mask and the way Myers was in this movie.

The story was serviceable and it was atmospheric.

The same guy played Myers in Curse but Michael was immensely better in that installment as is the overall movie which is why I think H6 is the best of that middle set.

H5 was one of the worst, only slightly better than Resurrection.

Halloween 4 is serviceable and I can see why its liked but Myers himself more than anything else brought the movie down for me. He pussy footed around but in Curse he was all business and ruthless.

[GrimBeornTheOld]

Good review and I am with you and Redpath for the most part except for the remake thing.

I and III are the only two I can watch nowadays.

[The Tall Man]

screw that review:finger3:. H4 is awesome and it doesn't get much better than that. after H4 it all went downhill but the series picked up some steam after H6. There is no dissing H4

[cmurdur]

Terrible looking Michael with the mask and hockey pads, but I enjoyed this one. The last good sequel to Halloween . And just imagine where the horror world would be without Danielle Harris for thousands of fans to drool over.

[Titanosaurus]

I give this a 5 or maybe something even lower.

:straightface2: What?

[Sutter Kane]

H4 was better that a 5/10... Prince of Whorer has no clue.