Amazon.com video review:
"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
