Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur) has been in a coma for 10 years ever since that incident that he tried to kill his biological sister Laurie.
He nearly died in a gas explosion at the Haddonfield Hospital and now he is being sent to a maximum security prison for the criminally insane.
Laurie died in a car crash all those years later but has a daughter named Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) who is now being raised by a foster family down in Haddonfield.
After finding out about this, Michael awakens, kills the transfer crew in the ambulance he lied in and returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night to try and kill his niece.
Jamie is having nightmares about her uncle. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) travels down to Haddonfield hitching to any transportation there and tries to reach the centre before it's too late.
He tries to contact Sherrif Brackett but he has retired and has the aid of a new Sherrif named Ben Meeker (Beau Starr).
Loomis helps Jamie out by staying in Meeker's house while a pack of redneck hunters are trying to track him down but Michael makes his way in killing everyone in his way.

This film return to the roots of the Michael Myers films and a good thing it does.
The film was an improvement to the triteful part 2 and I enjoyed quite a few scenes of the film like when Loomis tries to confront Michael after he discovers that he's out of his coma at a gas station as well as the end of this film which really begs you for another sequel too.
However, it's nowhere near as exciting or entertaining as the first one but again sequels rarely ever are.

The acting is fairly well done but sometimes it is stale by the supporting actors like the paramedics not making their roles believeable.
Young Danielle Harris really does well in her role as Michael's niece but when she starts crying finding out that he is out to kill her it's a little too over the top.
Sasha Jenson is a good actor regardless ever since I saw him in my favourite film Dazed & Confused.
Donald Pleasance of course is wonderful as always playing Michael's shrink Dr. Loomis and his scene confronting Michael at the gas station is a classic.

Kelly Kilmont's character as the stuck up teen Kelly Meeker has a brief breast shot as well as a butt shot.

A teenage girl is impaled on a shotgun
Stuffs his thumb in a guy's head
Some skulls are crushed
A guys head is ripped off
A mans face while driving is being scrunched up.

Dwight H. Little directs well for this piece. He coached Danielle Harris really well as even you would want to protect her for portroying such a helpless innocent little girl.
Also, he shows a great shot of when her character went into a costume store and she spots a clown costume like what Michael wore as a child to kill his older sister and then sees a hallucination of young Michael when she looks in a mirror.
He also shows a great suspenseful moment when Kilmont and Harris' characters are trying to escape from Michael Myers on a roof top.
Harris looked great running around the neighborhood screaming for help and trying to get away from Michael Myers.
Dwight's ending scene is very memorable as I don't want to give it out since it would be a spoiler.

We of course have Carpenter's theme music as usual since it works for every Halloween film except for part 3 of course.

Alan Howarth is good with his composition as he composed music for all the sequels until H20 saw the light of day. Howarth is the man for this regardless.

Jack Sayer: You're huntin' it, ain't ya? Yeah, you're huntin' it alright, just like me!
Dr. Samuel Loomis: What are you hunting, Mr. Sayer?
Jack Sayer: Apocalypse, End of the World, Armageddon. It always has a face and a name. I've been huntin' the bastard for 30 years, give or take. Came real close a time or two. Too damn close! You can't kill damnation, Mister. It don't die like a man dies!

Dr. Samuel Loomis: You talk about him as if he were a human being. That part of him died years ago.

Dr. Samuel Loomis: The state police will be here soon.
Jamie: And then we'll be safe?
Dr. Samuel Loomis: Yes.
Jamie: You don't believe that, do you?
[checks door, then pauses]
Dr. Samuel Loomis: No...

[after all the cops at the station are slaughtered]
Sheriff Ben Meeker: How could a man do this, Loomis? Tell me.
Dr. Samuel Loomis: This isn't a man.
Sheriff Ben Meeker: Then what is he? Tell me! What the hell are we dealing with here?
Dr. Samuel Loomis: Evil.

Sheriff Ben Meeker: I got a town full of beer bellies running around in the dark with shot guns! Who's gonna be next?

Dr. Samuel Loomis: We're not talking about any ordinary prisoner, Hoffman! We are talking about evil on two legs.

Sheriff Ben Meeker: I got a town full of beer bellies running around in the dark with shot guns! Who's gonna be next?

Dr. Samuel Loomis: We're not talking about any ordinary prisoner, Hoffman! We are talking about evil on two legs.

Dr. Samuel Loomis: Maybe nobody knows how to stop him.

Sheriff Ben Meeker: Oh, yeah... I catch you groping my daughter, I'll use that shotgun on you. Understand?

Security Guard: You never get used to the faces. Never!

Sam Loomis: I need to speak with Sheriff Brackett.
Deputy Pierce: Well, then you'll have to travel about three-thousand miles south of here.
Sam Loomis: What?
Deputy Pierce: Brackett retired in '81. He went to St. Petersburg.

[Wade is waiting to approach Kelly]
Brady: Hey, Wade, why don't you go ahead and make your move?
Wade: Don't rush me, Brady. Timing's got to be primo.
Brady: Yeah, well, money talks and bullshit walks. Know what I mean?

[the power worker sees Michael Myers]
Power Worker: Hey, you. This is city property. No trespassing. What are you, deaf? Don't try that Halloween shit with me.

Security Guard: Yeah, the one you're picking up, just thinkin' about him gives me the 'willies.' A decade ago-Halloween night-he murdered sixteen people, maybe more, trying to get to his sister. Nearly got her, too. But his doctor, of all people, shot him six times, then set him on fire. Both of them nearly burned to death. Yeah, I'll be glad to see this one gone. Yes, indeed-dee!

[at Ridgemont; a loud, distant shriek]
Man Attendant: Jesus!
Security Guard: Jesus ain't got nothin' to do with this place!

Dr. Samuel Loomis: Ten years ago, he tried to kill Laurie Strode. Now he wants her daughter.

Dr. Samuel Loomis: Wherever she is, that little child is in mortal danger.

Dr. Samuel Loomis: Six bodies, Sherrif, that's what I have seen! Between here and Ridgemont. An entire filling station in flames! I'm telling you Michael Myers is here, in this town! He's here to kill that little girl and anybody who gets in his way!

Jamie: Oh come alive, Rachel. Please come alive! Don't be dead. You can't be dead. Come alive, Rachel!

Dr. Samuel Loomis: [encounters the Shape in gas station] Michael? Why now? You've waited ten years. Why come back now? I knew this day would come. Don't go to Haddonfield. If you want another victim, take me. But leave those people in peace. Please, Michael?
[pause]
Dr. Samuel Loomis: Goddamn you.
[Loomis shoots at Michael]

Man Attendant: I'd assume Dr. Loomis would be here. Michael Myers is still his patient.
Dr. Hoffman: If Loomis read memos he'd be here. Fortunately, his position is more ceremonial than medical. And with Myers gone, my hope is that he'll either transfer, retire... or die.

Kelly Meeker: I didn't know you and Brady had anything, okay?
Rachel Carruthers: You knew. You just didn't care.
Kelly Meeker: He's not married. Besides, I've got a right to do what's best for me.
Rachel Carruthers: Don't you mean what you do best?
Kelly Meeker: Wise up to what men want, Rachel... or Brady won't be the last man you lose to another woman.

Deputy Logan: What are we doing?
Sheriff Ben Meeker: Making sure no one can get in here.
Deputy Logan: Isn't all this a little paranoid?
Sheriff Ben Meeker: If you'd seen that police station, you wouldn't even ask.

[Rachel catches Brady with Kelly]
Brady: I mean, you blow off our date at the last minute...
Rachel Carruthers: So you hop on to the next best thing? I thought you were different from other guys.
Brady: Oh, I'm different, it's just that... I just got pissed off, that's all.
Rachel Carruthers: Oh really? Well, I'll just let you get back to Miss Hot Panties.

Dr. Samuel Loomis: Why wasn't I notified?
Dr. Hoffman: About what?
Dr. Samuel Loomis: You know damn well about what! You let them take it out of here!

Dr. Hoffman: Now where are you going?
Dr. Samuel Loomis: Haddonfield. It's a four hour drive. You can reach me through the local police. If you don't find him in four hours, I'm sure I will.

Sheriff Ben Meeker: Let it be, Earl. Let the police handle it.
Earl: Like the last time? How many people killed back then? How many kids?

Darlene Carruthers: We'll be at the Fallbrooks. The number's next to the phone.
Rachel Carruthers: I know, and next to that is police, hospital, fire, and probably the National Guard.

Richard Carruthers: I want Jamie to be in bed by 9:30.
Rachel Carruthers: You're gonna be late. You don't want to blow your promotion.
Darlene Carruthers: Don't make fun. Tonight is the difference between vacations in Bermuda, and spending another two weeks with your grandmother in Cleveland.

Jamie: Whoever you are, I've got a big dog with me, and he bites!

Sheriff Ben Meeker: This starts to spook me here, doctor.
Dr. Samuel Loomis: Well, at least I am not the only...