Watch a ten-year-old girl act circles around almost every other Scream Queen. Sit tight while almost nothing of consequence happens in the 2nd act. Blood, false scares, near boob exposure, hooray. I dunno, the parts of this that are done well are great -- and largely coincide with Pleasence appearing onscreen -- but the rest is just dumb late '80s horror stuff that you can either forgive or you can't. Fun movie. I've heard 5 is atrocious.

Not So Good

After rotting on his laurels for nearly a decade, Halloween-masked misanthrope The Shape returns for another pointless slaughter spree in a slack hack job that proceeds with none of the original's joie de morte.

"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."

this one has a really badass ending, but not much else.

Very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral.

I haven't seen 2 or 3 yet, but considering the convoluted timeline between the films, I feel I can get away with this. It's another bad horror film to clear through to find the good ones, a slasher at its most rudimentary and clearly a product rather than a film. It hasn't even got good ideas swamped by bad directing and is just dull. It feels cheap too - Michael Myer's mask in this is fucking atrocious and more likely to give you nightmares than anything else in the film.

Actually, it's really number 3 for Michael. Although graphic violence is mostly played down in favor of suspense, the whole masked-maniac-on-the-loose scenario is, by now, so hopelessly cliched that there are virtually no surprises -- except maybe how Pleasence's character manages to survive being stabbed and blown up! The climax is fairly taut, but its effect is negated by a twist ending stolen from _Friday the 13th -- The Final Chapter_.

horrible writing/acting/directing. regular sized plot holes for an 80's slasher flick (how exactly does turtle speed man get on a speeding truck?). i just wish that the slasher genre had discovered the miracle of gore by this time, because this movie has none. i give it pluses for having a cute little girl and that ending was pretty decent.

Unexpected ending O.o

Plot hole city, yet still somewhat watchable. The kills are pretty weak, the writing sucks and this movie needed some major editing work, should've been like 25 minutes long. The ending sucks so much ass that it automatically made me drop my score significantly. Extra points for Jamie's an Orphan! Jamie's an Oprhan!

45.125

surprise ending!

It's Michael Myers. Need I say more?

quite possibly the funniest intro to the series

Not awful back-to-basics installment. One of the great eighties horror endings.

I know I've seen one of the Halloween films, and I'm about 95% percent sure it's this one. Not that I remember much about it anyway, other than thinking it was reasonably scary but mostly stupid.