Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers is a 1988 American horror slasher film directed by Dwight H. Little, written by Alan B. McElroy, and starring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, and Danielle Harris. The fourth installment in the Halloween franchise, it follows Michael Myers returning to Haddonfield to kill his niece Jamie Lloyd, the daughter of Laurie Strode, with his former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis again pursuing him.

Halloween 4:
The Return of Michael Myers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDwight H. Little
Produced byPaul Freeman[1]
Screenplay byAlan B. McElroy
Story by
  • Alan B. McElroy
  • Danny Lipsius
  • Larry Rattner
  • Benjamin Ruffner
Based onCharacters
by John Carpenter
& Debra Hill
Starring
Music byAlan Howarth
CinematographyPeter Lyons Collister
Edited byCurtiss Clayton
Production
company
Distributed byGalaxy International Releasing (U.S.)
20th Century Fox (international)[3]
Release date
  • October 21, 1988 (1988-10-21)
Running time
88 minutes[4]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million
Box office$17.8 million (US)

As its title suggests, the film marks the return of Michael Myers after his absence in the previous installment, however, despite being the fourth film of the series, it is a direct sequel to the second installment due to the previous installment taking place on a completely different storyline. Initially, John Carpenter and co-producer Debra Hill intended to create an anthology series, of which Halloween III would be the first. Halloween 4 was originally intended to be a ghost story but, due to the disappointing reception of Halloween III, it reintroduced Michael Myers, and he has remained the main antagonist of the series since.

Released in the United States on October 21, 1988, Halloween 4 grossed $17.8 million domestically on a budget of $5 million, and received mostly negative reviews from critics. However, the film, much like the series in general, has obtained a strong cult following since its release. A direct sequel, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, was released one year later.

Plot

On October 30, 1988, nearly ten years after his escape from Smith's Grove Sanitarium and initial massacre in his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, Michael Myers, having survived the explosion at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, albeit severely burned and left in a coma since that night, is being transferred from Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium back to Smith's Grove in an ambulance. Along the way, two of the paramedics escorting Michael begin to discuss his living relatives and one notes that the only family member he has left is a niece living in Haddonfield. Upon hearing this Michael comes out of his coma, kills all four occupants of the ambulance before escaping and begins to make his way back to Haddonfield.

Jamie Lloyd, Michael's niece, and the daughter of Laurie Strode, who was killed nearly a year prior along with Jamie's father in a car crash, has been adopted by the Carruthers family including Richard, Darlene, and their daughter Rachel. At the same time as Michael's escape, Jamie, who is having trouble sleeping, begins having a hallucination of the ambulance he is being driven in. After being comforted by Rachel, she returns to her room where she privately grieves over the loss of her mother and is then attacked by Michael although it turns out to be a vivid nightmare.

On Halloween, Dr. Samuel Loomis, Michael's psychiatrist, who also survived the explosion but was left badly burned and scarred over most of his body, learns of Michael's escape and, after seeing firsthand the remains of the ambulance and its occupants, immediately leaves to find him. He arrives at a gas station in the middle of nowhere minutes after Michael has killed a mechanic, taken his coveralls, and a waitress. Loomis, seeing Michael standing in the kitchen, pleads with him not to go to Haddonfield. Knowing that his pleas are falling on deaf ears, Loomis shoots at Michael but vanishes he then manages to make his way back into the garage where he steals a tow truck. When the garage door is caught on the front, he frees it by hitting the gas pumps causing the entire station to explode, destroying Loomis' car, and burning the phone lines. Loomis barely survives and continues towards Haddonfield on foot.

Meanwhile, Rachel's parents ask her to take Jamie out trick-or-treating that night. She gets into an argument with them because she has a date with her boyfriend, Brady, which upsets Jamie who overhears the conversation. The two girls reconcile shortly thereafter when Rachel promises to take Jamie for ice cream later that day.

At school Jamie is tormented by her classmates about her mother being dead and her relation to Michael Myers. Rachel and her friend, Lindsey, pick Jamie up after school and take her to the drugstore where Brady and Kelly Meeker, the sheriff's daughter, work. While Rachel and Brady argue over the fact that they cannot go out that night, Jamie wanders the aisles and finds a clown costume similar to the one her uncle wore the night he killed his sister Judith. Unbeknownst to anyone, Michael is also in the store as well and steals a mask. While Jamie is about to try on her costume she has another hallucination of Michael as a young boy while looking in the mirror. The real Michael then appears and tries to grab her. She screams and backs into the mirror, alerting Rachel and the others. They find Jamie unharmed and help her back to the front while Michael slips away unnoticed.

Loomis continues walking towards Haddonfield when he is picked up by Reverend Jackson P. Sayer, a preacher who claims to be hunting evil and Armageddon. After arriving in town, Loomis goes to the police station looking for Sheriff Brackett, but is told that he retired in 1981 and moved to Florida. The new sheriff, Ben Meeker, Kelly's father, is initially hesitant to believe that Michael has returned to Haddonfield but decides to take the warnings seriously. The two leave to go find Jamie who Loomis believes is Michael's intended target.

After Rachel and Jamie leave to go trick-or-treating, Michael enters the Carruthers house and finds Jamie's shoe box filled with pictures of himself as a child as well as his sister Laurie, confirming that Jamie is indeed his niece.

During a stop at one of the houses in the neighborhood with a group of children, Kelly answers the door and Rachel sees Brady coming down the stairs. She tries to leave but he catches up to her and tries to explain why he is there. While they are arguing again, Jamie continues trick-or-treating with the other children and becomes separated from Rachel. Loomis and Meeker arrive at the Carruthers house and find evidence of Michael's presence including the family dog Sundae dead in Jamie's closet, another of Michael's victims and confirming Loomis' worst fears to Meeker. While all of this is going on, Michael arrives at the electrical substation and kills an electrician named Bucky by throwing him into the transformers which causes a blackout in the entire town.

While searching for Jamie, Rachel has an encounter with Michael and flees as he approaches her. She eventually finds her before they are then found and taken away by Loomis and Meeker in Meeker's patrol car. They return to the station to find that Michael has already been there as well and has killed most of the officers. A lynch mob is formed by the leader of the town's truckers and owner of a local bar, Earl, after they arrive and are informed by Loomis that Michael has returned home to kill again. Meeker is initially furious at him for inciting the men but relents when he realizes that with most of his department dead they are the only line of defense that the town now has. Deputy Logan, the only other surviving officer, who had been waiting at the Carruthers house and heard about the massacre at the station, is radioed by Meeker to meet at his house where they are taking Rachel and Jamie to protect them. He leaves but is unaware that Michael is in the backseat of his squad car.

Meeker, Loomis, Rachel, and Jamie arrive at Meeker's house where Kelly and Brady are barely able to cover up their attempt to have sex. The group decide to barricade all the windows and doors aside from the main entrance. Loomis leaves shortly thereafter to look for Michael. Meeker then leaves as well following a radio message indicating that the truckers have accidentally killed a man, mistaking him for Myers, leaving Deputy Logan as the group's only protection. Unbeknownst to any of them, Michael is already in the house. Kelly, who was preparing coffee, mistakes Michael for the deputy, who has already been killed. When she discovers this he gets up and uses Logan's shotgun to impale her through a door before disappearing into the house again.

Rachel, who was in the basement waiting for a message from the state police about their arrival time, heads upstairs to inform the deputy only to discover his and Kelly's corpses. Rachel also finds that Jamie is missing before running into Brady who insists that Jamie is dead and that they must escape before they are killed too. The front door is locked with a deadbolt and Brady attempts to shoot the lock out only to discover that the door is made of metal which means without the key they are trapped. Jamie emerges from hiding as does Michael. Brady tells Rachel and Jamie to run to the attic while he tries to hold Michael off. He reloads his gun too late and fires but misses Michael. He then tries using it as a melee weapon to no avail and is easily disarmed. His last attempt to fight ends with Michael breaking Brady's hand before lifting him off the ground by his neck which is then crushed in his grasp.

The girls escape the attic through a window onto the roof, and Jamie is lowered down safely, but Michael attacks Rachel and knocks her off the roof. Jamie tries to wake Rachel up, refusing to believe that she is dead from the fall, but is forced to leave her behind. She encounters Loomis down the street and they take shelter in Jamie's school. Michael appears and throws Loomis through a classroom door before continuing his pursuit of Jamie who falls down a flight of steps near the exit. Before Michael can kill her Rachel appears, having survived the fall, and sprays Michael with an extinguisher which blinds him long enough for the two to escape. They are met outside by the truckers where Earl at first wants to enter the school to kill Myers but is convinced the best thing to do is leave.

The truck carrying Rachel and Jamie drives out of Haddonfield for the next town over, to meet with the Illinois State Police. A lone trooper stops and gives them directions to a nearby station. As they continue driving, Michael climbs into the bed of the truck, having been underneath it the entire time. He throws and kills all the men in the back. Jamie and Rachel are in the front with Earl, unaware Michael has gotten rid of the men, until he smashes his hand through the drivers window and rips Earl's face and neck open from the roof. Rachel takes the wheel after getting Earl's body out of the truck and does her best to keep Michael from getting to Jamie. She stops short, causing Michael to fall from the truck and then hits him, sending him flying into a ditch. Loomis and Meeker then arrives with the rest of the truckers and the state police. Meanwhile, Jamie has gotten out of the truck and approaches Michael, touching his hand before being beckoned away by Meeker and Rachel. Michael is still alive and gets back up, only to be greeted by a hail of gunfire, culminating with him falling down an abandoned mine-shaft to his apparent death.

Following the night's events, Loomis and Meeker take both girls home, where they are met and consoled by Richard and Darlene. Meeker asks if it is over, to which Loomis assures him it is and that Michael is buried in hell where he belongs. Darlene takes Jamie upstairs and runs her a bath. Jamie dons her clown mask and approaches her step-mother from behind; a scream is heard from upstairs. Loomis rushes to the staircase and is horrified to see that Jamie is standing atop the landing holding a pair of bloody scissors, having stabbed Darlene. Loomis attempts to shoot her, but is disarmed by Meeker who, along with Rachel and Richard, look upon Jamie in horror. Loomis continues to cry hysterically as Jamie again holds the scissors up, having become possessed by the same evil as Michael.

Cast
Main article: List of Halloween characters

Production

Development
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.

—Dennis Etchison on his idea for Halloween 4[5]

After Halloween III: Season of the Witch, executive producer Moustapha Akkad wanted to move further with the series, and bring back Michael Myers. Producer Paul Freeman, a friend of Akkad with a long list of credits to his name, explained to Fangoria magazine in 1988 that everybody came out of Halloween III saying, "Where's Michael?"[6] John Carpenter was approached by Cannon Films, who had just finished 1986's release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, to write and direct Halloween 4. Debra Hill planned to produce the film, while Carpenter teamed up with Dennis Etchison who, under the pseudonym Jack Martin, had written novelizations of both Halloween II (1981) and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) to write a script to Halloween 4. Originally, Joe Dante was Carpenter's choice in mind of director for the project.[7]

However, Akkad rejected the Etchison script, calling it "too cerebral" and insisting that any new Halloween sequel must feature Myers as a flesh and blood killer.[8] In an interview, Etchison explained how he received the phone call informing him of the rejection of his script. Etchison said, "I received a call from Debra Hill and she said, 'Dennis, I just wanted you to know that John and I have sold our interest in the title 'Halloween' and unfortunately, your script was not part of the deal."[5]

Carpenter and Hill had signed all of their rights away to Akkad, who gained ownership. Akkad said, "I just went back to the basics of Halloween on Halloween 4 and it was the most successful."[9] As Carpenter refused to continue his involvement with the series, a new director was sought out. Dwight H. Little, a native of Ohio, replaced Carpenter. Little had previously directed episodes for Freddy's Nightmares and the film Bloodstone.

The ending of Halloween II is retconned in the film and both Michael and Loomis would return for the film.

Screenplay

On February 25, 1988, writer Alan B. McElroy, a Cleveland, Ohio native, was brought in to the write the script for Halloween 4.[10] The writer's strike was to begin on March 7 that year. This forced McElroy to develop a concept, pitch the story, and send in the final draft in under eleven days.[11][12] McElroy came up with the idea of Brittany "Britti" Lloyd, Laurie Strode's daughter, to be chased by her uncle, who has escaped from Ridgemont after being in a coma for ten years. Dr. Samuel Loomis goes looking for Michael with Sheriff Meeker. The setting of the place was once again Haddonfield, Illinois. The character of Laurie Strode was revealed to have died in a car accident, leaving Britti with the Carruthers family, which included Rachel, the family's seventeen-year-old daughter. Britti's name was later changed to Jamie, a homage to Laurie Strode actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

McElroy told Fangoria:

When I first saw the original, I was dating a girl and took her to a theater in Boston to see it. We were the only ones in the place, but she was climbing all over me. When Halloween II came out, I got completely blitzed and saw it, and I had the best time. So when the director, Dwight Little, asked me to write the script, I jumped at the chance. Here I was going to bring the Shape — Michael Myers — back to life. It's a piece of film history. He's truly an icon.[10]

In the original draft, Sheriff Ben Meeker was to be killed during the Shape's attack on the Meeker house. A fire would have started in the basement and burnt down the entire house. The scene on top of the roof with the Shape, Rachel, and Jamie was supposed to be engulfed in flames. This idea was scrapped due to budget issues.[13] Instead, a more "soap opera" feel was incorporated, which included a love triangle subplot between Rachel, Brady, and Kelly Meeker, the sheriff's daughter.

Director Dwight H. Little stated in 2006 that his interpretation of McElroy's screenplay had the Michael Myers character played as a literal escaped mental patient, not a supernatural figure.[14] Little approached the screenplay as though Myers was pursuing Jamie as a means of "connecting with her", but that he had no social capacity to interact with her, and thus resorted to violence.[15] The screenplay references the events of Halloween II (1981), in which a fire breaks out in Haddonfield Hospital, by having both Myers and Loomis display burn scars on their respective hands and faces.[16]

Casting

The cast of Halloween 4 included only one actor from the first two films, Donald Pleasence, the only original cast member who reprised his role as Samuel Loomis, Michael Myers' psychiatrist.[17] According to Little, Pleasance was "committed conceptually" to the role, but did not sign on to the project until having read a finished screenplay.[18] Before McElroy's script was chosen, the producers asked Jamie Lee Curtis to reprise her role as Laurie Strode, the original's heroine. Curtis had become a success in the film industry and had established a career with her roles in films like Trading Places (1983) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). Curtis declined and did not want to continue her participation in the film, although she did return for the seventh Halloween film. As a result, her character was written out and died in a car accident, which is briefly explained in the film.

The script introduced Laurie Strode's seven-year-old daughter, Jamie Lloyd. Melissa Joan Hart had auditioned for the role, among various other girls.[19] Up against her was Danielle Harris, who had previously starred in One Life to Live as Samantha Garretson; Harris was ultimately cast in the role after auditioning in New York.[20] Rebecca Schaeffer had auditioned for the role of Rachel Carruthers, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.[21] Twenty-three-year-old Ellie Cornell had also auditioned.[22] Cornell had chosen to audition for Halloween 4 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) as the role of Kristen Parker, after Patricia Arquette had declined to return as Kristen.[19] Cornell chose Halloween 4 and successfully landed the role of Rachel. Beau Starr was cast as the new Sheriff, Ben Meeker, replacing Sheriff Lee Brackett (Charles Cyphers), and Kathleen Kinmont was cast as the Sheriff's daughter, Kelly. George P. Wilbur was cast to play Michael Myers.[23]

Filming

Principal photography began on April 11, 1988. Instead of filming in Pasadena, California (the original filming location and stand in for Haddonfield) due to high-rising costs, filming took place in and around Salt Lake City, Utah.[24] As filming was taking place in March,[10] during springtime, the producers were forced to import leaves and big squash, which they would use to create pumpkins by painting them orange.[25] "One of the obvious challenges in making a part four of anything is to interest a contemporary audience in old characters and themes," said director Dwight H. Little. "What I'm trying to do is capture the mood of the original Halloween and yet take a lot of new chances. What we're attempting to do is walk a fine line between horror and mystery. Halloween 4 will not be an ax-in-the-forehead kind of movie." Paul Freeman agreed. "This film does contain some humorous moments, but it's not of the spoof or send-up variety. It's humor that rises out of the film's situations and quickly turns back into terror."[6]

George P. Wilbur, who was cast as Michael Myers, wore hockey pads under the costume to make himself look more physically imposing, and he was often filmed in mirror reflections or off-center so that the audience could witness him "in pieces" rather than have an encompassing view.[26] During filming, the cast and crew made it a point to take it easy on Danielle Harris, as she was only a young child at the time, and made sure that she was not scared too badly and knew that none of it was real; to this end, Wilbur regularly removed the mask in front of her in order to remind her that it was just a movie and he was not going to hurt her.[27]

The late night scenes caused issues with the cast. Garlan Wilde, a gaffer for the film, was injured during the scene between Brady and the Shape when he dropped a light and accidentally slit his wrists. He was rushed to the hospital. In addition, while filming the rooftop scene, Ellie Cornell cut her stomach open on a large nail while sliding down the roof, though she continued filming the scene despite losing a sizable amount of blood. During most of the night scenes, Donald Pleasence became so cold that he wore a hat for most of the scenes, unbeknownst to the crew. This caused over six hours of footage to be re-shot. The shoot lasted about 41 days and Ellie Cornell and Danielle Harris were required to be on set for 36 of those days.

During filming, it was considered that the customized 1975 Captain Kirk mask be reused for this film. However, the mask was long gone and a new one was purchased from a local costume shop. The producers wanted to test and see what it would look like without the edits. The school scene was filmed and when reviewing the producers did not like how the mask turned out. It was allegedly customized again but did not live up to the original, and the producers felt it was too old and went for a new mask. Some scenes had to be re-shot with the new mask. The only scene left in is when Loomis is thrown through a glass door; as Michael comes up behind him, the unaltered face and blonde hair is visible.[28]

After viewing the film's rough cut, director Dwight H. Little and producer Moustapha Akkad decided that the film's violence was too soft, and so an extra day of "blood filming" commenced. Special effects make-up artist John Carl Buechler (director of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood) was brought in to create the thumb in the forehead kill and neck-twisting of the redneck seen in the film's final cut.

Music
Main article: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (soundtrack)

The score was performed by Alan Howarth, who had assisted John Carpenter on Halloween II and Halloween III. Howarth gained approval from Dwight H. Little before he could accept the offer, creating a new score that referenced the original's but with a synthesizer twist. Howarth also included new tracks such as "Jamie's Nightmare", "Return of the Shape", and "Police Station". The soundtrack was released to Compact Disc on September 28, 1988.

Release

Halloween 4 opened in 1,679 theaters on October 21, 1988 and grossed $6,831,250 in its opening weekend, ranking number one at the box office. It held the top spot in its second weekend, and achieved a total domestic gross of $17,768,757 in the United States, becoming the sixth best performing film in the Halloween series.[29]

Reception

The film received negative critical reception. It currently has a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 3.89 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Halloween 4: The Return Of Michaels Myers may bring the series' masked killer back into the fold, but fails to offer the visceral scares and inventiveness of the original."[30] On Metacritic it has a score of 34 out of 100 based on reviews from 10 critics, which indicates "generally unfavorable reviews".[31]

Caryn James of The New York Times criticized the film for abandoning the original film's strengths saying "suspense and psychological horror have given way to superhuman strength and resilience."[32] Variety found the film to be "a no-frills, workmanlike picture."[33] Richard Harrington of The Washington Post declared the film "very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral."[34] Kim Newman for Empire said "It's incredible that a film could be so closely patterned on Carpenter's still-thrilling original movie and yet be so stupid, unscary and plodding as Halloween 4 is."[35]

Time has been relatively kind to the film with many modern reviews being more positive. JoBlo.com said, "The movie is tight, has good murders and a kicked my butt ending. The Shape is back and in good form; this is my favorite Halloween next to the first one."[36] IGN declared "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers stands out as the second best film in the entire series."[37] Dread Central said, "Halloween 4 is a strong sequel, horror film and Halloween movie."[38] DVD Talk said "Despite its flaws, Halloween 4 is one of the best slashers from the late 1980s, standing out in an era when the subgenre was in steep decline."[39]

Home media

The film was first released on VHS in May 1989 as a rental title by CBS/FOX home entertainment.[40] It was made available for sell-through in October 1989 to coincide with the theatrical release of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. In 2006, Anchor Bay Entertainment released special editions of this film and its sequel for DVD.[2] Supplements include the Halloween 4/5 panel at the Return to Haddonfield convention, theatrical trailer, Halloween 4 Final Cut – a "behind-the-scenes" documentary, a commentary with Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell, and another commentary by Alan B. McElroy and Anthony Masi. Halloween 4, along with Halloween 5, and a Blu-ray, standard DVD and extended edition of Halloween, was released with the first disc of the documentary, Halloween: 25 Years of Terror, and The Shape's mask in 2008 in a limited 30th anniversary box set of the first film. The film was released on Blu-ray in Germany on May 4, 2012,[41] in the US on August 21, 2012.[42]

In the United Kingdom, Halloween 4 was originally released on VHS format, where distribution rights were initially held by Braveworld in the early 1990s, and then, Legend distribution. On June 17, 2002, Digital Entertainment released the film on VHS,[43] while a second version from the company containing a "Widescreen Presentation" on September 5, 2002.[44] Anchor Bay Entertainment released the film for the first time on DVD in "Special Edition" on January 28, 2002, while Digital Entertainment did release the film to DVD several months later on September 5, 2002 to coincide with their newest VHS release,[45] and an additional release via distribution company, Hollywood on October 27, 2003, which also released a set containing Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman and Boogeyman II, and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,[46] and another set containing the film alongside Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood.[47] After which, Anchor Bay acquired rights to all subsequent home video releases, and again released Halloween 4 with the 1986 film House in a "Double Disc Box Set" on February 6, 2006.[48] A re-issued DVD was made available once again courtesy of Anchor Bay on October 11, 2010 which features the theatrical trailer and the featurette, "Inside Halloween 4".[49] Anchor Bay released the film as part of a DVD set, "Halloween Collection" on October 15, 2012, which contained the first five Halloween films.[50] Halloween 4 was released on Blu-ray on October 15, 2012, which contains new Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio and special features consisting of audio commentary with actors Ellie Cornell and Danielle Harris, audio commentary with director Dwight H. Little and author Justin Beahm, Halloween 4/5 discussion panel, and theatrical trailer.[51]

The film was released on Blu-ray in Germany on May 4, 2012,[52] in the US on August 21, 2012,[42] and in Australia on October 2, 2013.[53]

Novelization

To tie in with the film's release, a novelization by Nicholas Grabowsky was published, containing 224 pages. The novel closely follows the film's events, with a few alterations. In 2003, the novel was re-issued with new material and cover art, titled Halloween IV: The Special Limited Edition.

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