1988 Directed by Dwight H. Little
The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer's path.
Donald Pleasence Danielle Harris Ellie Cornell George P. Wilbur Michael Pataki Beau Starr Kathleen Kinmont Sasha Jenson Gene Ross Carmen Filpi Raymond O'Connor Jeff Olson Karen Alston Nancy Borgenicht David Jensen Harlow Marks M.J. McDonnell Richard Stay Michael Flynn George Sullivan Michael Ruud Donré Sampson Kelly Lookinland Erik Preston Jordan Bradley Richy Cumba Alan B. McElroy Leslie L. Rohland
Fenton Quinn George P. Wilbur Carl Ciarfalio Doug Coleman Laura Dash Tom Morga Debbie Evans Kent Hays Lane Leavitt Fred Lerner Patricia M. Peters
Charles Grenzbach Anthony Milch Barbara Barnaby Richard D. Rogers Mark Hopkins McNabb John Wilkinson Martin Dreffke Don Crosby
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I’ve been on and off harsh on this movie in the past, but I really do love it—it kinda just makes me happy… especially after decorating the outside of the house with pumpkins and skeletons.
I laugh every time the bartender is trying to call the police station and no one is answering so he and all the ‘good ol’ boys’ wearing a lot of flannel and vest jackets (who are getting tanked at said bar) all hop in their shotgun equipped pickup truck brigade and haul ass to the police station lol.
There’s a lot of whacky stuff in Halloween IV... a power company guy named Bucky who gets chucked into some electrical transformers, gas stations blowing up, the…
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The Haddonfield that Michael Myers comes home to in 1988 is colder, meaner, hollowed-out, paranoid and anxious but projecting bravado, occupied with personal status and material comfort in a society which has rejected any sense of collective welfare and all relationships are burdensome or transactional. The nights are warmer, longer and more brightly lit, the darkness flattened, made uniform in pushed back opacity, until the power inevitably fails and it rushes in like water filling a submerged car having gone off a bridge in cop tv slow motion. Michael comes back to Haddonfield only to find Laurie gone, Sheriff Brackett gone, a town emptying itself well before Michael's return. The not-ness, the spreading void at the heart of Haddonfield means…
*Was a 65, now an 85*
I wouldn't say Halloween 4 is aging like a fine wine, necessarily, but I find myself with every re-watch falling deeper into its autumnal setting and its quiet focus on action. There is not an ounce of fat on this cheap, violent tone-poem, which carries the viewer through the Halloween season like a quaint pile of leaves, scraping against the sidewalks lit by jack-o-lanterns and populated by costumes and a slowly-setting sun. To start off, The Return of Michael Myers has one of my very favorite opening credit sequences, and it's one that works simply as atmospheric prep - a delicate mix of still images that evoke the Fall season and the loss of…
“Don’t try that Halloween shit with me!”
Whenever I drive past the power station in my town I always think about Bucky’s scene in this movie and his infamous lol.
Love the credits, the aesthetic commitment to the holiday, and the beer belly pickup truck mob like everyone and their mother but special shout-out to the whacko security guy at the sanitarium, Carmen Filpi as Rev. Jackson P. Sayer, and Beau Starr as sheriff Meeker—every movie I’ve ever seen him in his character was either named officer, deputy, detective, Vito, Lips, Scaglia, or Henry’s father.
I love Donald Pleasence so much in this… the way he storms into Michael Pataki’s office, how he just waltzes into the river to check…
"Jamie's an orphan, Jamie's uncle is the boogey man" - bully chorus,
I like that the cop believes Loomis pretty much right away. Good for you cop, way to not be a horror stereotype!
Those steely blues and shimmering oranges add up to the ultimate in cozy comfort on an overcast October afternoon.
I’m not going to be able to see the new movie until next weekend so I figured I’d rewatch a couple of sequels to help ease the pain.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a pretty bad movie, but that’s never stopped me from throwing stars at something before and this movie has lots of heavy nostalgic vibes that make up for the bad stuff, like that whole Michael climbing up from under the truck while holding onto his knife bit which is ridiculous I love it. Then he kills everybody on the truck and throws them off and nobody in the cab hears a thing and what I love it.
The opening credits are absolutely amazing and give the best…
Redneck beer belly mob tries to defend the town with shotguns and end up murdering a civilian lol. After overdosing on this movie during the 90’s, I’m happy to say that I’ve come around on it big time over the last few years... and yeah sure, the opening credits everyone and their mom talks about are great/amazing and all that... but the fall vibes throughout the town are top tier as far as I’m concerned and that finale is aces.
Easy to hate/write off, but even easier to like after watching slasher movies a thousand times worse than this.
