Halloween is here again let’s all celebrate. Hooray! No? Well that seems a bit of a shame as this one follows on from the second movie and completely ignores the third movie. I have already spoken about the third instalment of the story so won’t go into that one here. (or hopefully ever again). The fourth edition (or third!) will not be challenging the leaders of the Tri-Critic Sync Challenge as I can already guess how low the Rotten Tomatoes are going to be scoring this one. This was made on a budget of $5m and then went onto gross $17.8m which to me is a success and a tidy one at that. It stars the returning legend that is
Donald Pleasence along with Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris and Michael Pataki. Despite making all that profit the critics were a bit tougher on this movie with IMDb giving it a rather cool 5.0/10 and the Tomatoes giving it a disappointing 39%. Shall I just move on with the plot.
The plot is very similar to many other movies with Michael returned to a mental hospital and Dr Loomis still his patience but he is being transferred without Loomis truly realising because he doesn’t read memo’s but Michael is being shipped out just before Halloween and then the staff talk about Laurie being killed in a car crash but he daughter has been adopted which sparks Myers into life and he organises an escape plan which involves killing all on the ambulance and then everyone at a gas station where Loomis who has assumed the worse with the Ambulance crash and following a route to Haddonfield. Meets Myers in the garage where there is a starring competition between the two before Myers high foots it out of there and heads off to Haddonfield in his newly stolen vehicle. Blowing up Dr Loomis’ ride in the process. It returns to the classic original story someone with Myers on the loose in Haddonfield on Halloween night. Laurie’s daughter is the target this time and she is out trick or treating as Myers slashes his way through the town to get to her. Which all leads to another grand finale and a twist in the tail that I didn’t see coming but I could have slowly clapped at the end result.
OK they took that shock ending and just threw it in the bin for the next movie but that’s by and by as they had the opportunity to build on something there which they didn’t and there took the who thing in a truly weird direction thereafter. That is a different movie and I am here to give my view on this one and the view is good. It wrestles the story back to what the first two was about it ignores the director that wasn’t interested in continuing until the cash runs out some 20 or 30 years later and ran with what the fans wanted. OK it does play a bit fast and loose with the plot in places but this is the movie that saw Michael Myers return to the screens. For that I give thanks and appreciate the efforts of the producer not stick to his guns and bring that character back because he saw that people (well paying customers) were not happy with the end result of Halloween 3 and he changed it, so well done him! I liked this movie and like the fact it kept the story going or brought it back to what worked. If something is so good that people are copying it left right and centre. It must be good then? Give it a chance, ignore three and just watch this with an open mind and you might actually enjoy it as well.
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