Friday, October 29, 2010

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers


The film begins on October 30, 1988 with atmospheric establishing shots of farm land. Later that dark rainy night, we follow an ambulance truck on its way to pick up Michael Myers from Ridgemont Sanitarium. Michael Myers has been in a coma for 10 years since Halloween II. The ambulance truck comes to transfer Michael Myers to Smiths Grove, Michael awakens after hearing about his niece alive in Haddonfield and kills the four ambulance personnel and escapes. Jamie Lloyd, Laurie Strode's daughter and Michael's niece, has been adopted by the Carruthers family. Strode was thought to have died in a car crash. Jamie knows that Michael is her uncle, but does not know he is the man she has nightmares about.

October 31, 1988, and Jamie's foster sister, Rachel, has to watch Jamie that night - instead of going on a date with her boyfriend Brady - while Mr. and Mrs. Carruthers go out. Michael kills a mechanic and a waitress on his way and makes it to Haddonfield. We learn that Dr. Loomis has survived the fire from Halloween II. Loomis sets off to find him......More>>
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