Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Storyline
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- TriviaA scene was filmed to bridge the story with Halloween II (1981). It was a flashback to the finale of part II, with a scene where Loomis is being tended to by paramedics when he sees the burning body of The Shape. Loomis exclaims to the EMS technicians to "Let him burn!" but they douse the flaming body of Myers despite his pleas. A similar moment occurs in Halloween Kills (2021) with Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) saying, "Let it burn!", after she sets her house on fire with Michael trapped at the end of Halloween (2018).
- Goofs(at around 47 mins) When Jamie and Rachel get into the cop car and Sheriff Meeker drives off, you see Michael Myers standing in the road. Right before the scene ends, crew making the smoke blow are visible on the far left of the screen.
- Quotes
Dr. Loomis: You're talking about him as if he were a human being. That part of him died years ago.
- Alternate versionsThe German version of this not-so violent film was cut during the gore scenes to get a more commercial friendly FSK-16 rating. Uncut version was later released with a FSK-18 rating (then later rated to FSK-16 in 2014 after only being BPjM indexed for four short years).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
- SoundtracksHalloween Theme
Written by John Carpenter
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A solid slasher.
It is ten years after Michael Myers escaped from the psychiatric clinic and went on the rampage and he has been in a coma ever since being burnt at the end of Halloween 2. But one of the ambulance drivers transporting him somewhere lets slip that he has a niece in Haddonfield and before you know it he's making his way back there.
Myers has become seemingly indestructable by now. He was seen emerging from a hospital as a human fireball at the end of art 2 and yet he seems to have escaped more or less unscathed. And howcome he can see anything when he was blinded in Part 2 just before being roasted alive?
However, if you overlook these points you'll find this is an entertaining and well-made film. Dr Loomis returns to Haddonfield after his ex-patient, played by Donald Pleasance at his best, and there are plenty of interesting characters and situations.
One of the better of the Halloween series, certainly much more worthwhile than the dismal Halloween 5 or most of the repetative Friday the 13th films.
Myers has become seemingly indestructable by now. He was seen emerging from a hospital as a human fireball at the end of art 2 and yet he seems to have escaped more or less unscathed. And howcome he can see anything when he was blinded in Part 2 just before being roasted alive?
However, if you overlook these points you'll find this is an entertaining and well-made film. Dr Loomis returns to Haddonfield after his ex-patient, played by Donald Pleasance at his best, and there are plenty of interesting characters and situations.
One of the better of the Halloween series, certainly much more worthwhile than the dismal Halloween 5 or most of the repetative Friday the 13th films.
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- G.Spider
- Nov 17, 1999
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Halloween 4
- Filming locations
- Penney's Gas Station Location, Rt. 36, Rush Valley, Utah, USA(now Penny's Cafe - 7760 S UT-36)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $17,768,757
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,831,250
- Oct 23, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $17,768,757
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1(original & intended ratio)
- 1.85 : 1
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