Review – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

I like how the title takes care to assure us that Michael Myers is indeed back for this one. Having done in his entire family either via direct butchery or simple attrition, The Shape has now been reduced to stalking his prepubescent niece. Seriously, this guy has trooped back to Haddonfield so many times that the kids in the local grade schools must have Boogeyman drills just like kids in Kansas have tornado drills and kids in Japan have Godzilla drills. Donald Pleasance and photos of Jamie Lee Curtis are about all that’s left from the original, with the saga otherwise reduced from helping to spawn the slasher genre to becoming just another pathetic example thereof. See if desperate