Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Movie, 1988, The Thorn timeline, Set in 1988
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers is #4 of 13 in release order and #3 of 13 in chronological order in the Halloween.
The story
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.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers recap
Ten years after the hospital fire, Michael has been in a coma. When he is moved by ambulance on October 30, 1988, he hears that his sister Laurie, since killed in a car crash, has a daughter, Jamie Lloyd, and he wakes, kills the crew and heads for Haddonfield. Loomis, scarred from the fire, follows. Eight-year-old Jamie lives with her foster family, the Carruthers, and has nightmares about her uncle. Her teenage foster sister Rachel takes her trick-or-treating. Michael cuts the town's power, kills a police station full of officers, and hunts Jamie. Sheriff Meeker gathers the girls at his house, while a lynch mob of local men goes out after Michael.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers ending explained
Michael chases Rachel and Jamie across rooftops and into a pickup truck, and Rachel runs him off the road. The police and the mob riddle him with bullets and he falls into a mine shaft. At home, Jamie, wearing a clown costume like Michael's first one, stabs her foster mother with scissors, and Loomis screams as he sees what she has become. Halloween 5 picks up from there.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Where to watch Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers is streaming on Philo, AMC+, AMC, and Shudder in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 5.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 42%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Halloween III: Season of the Witch, before Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.
- Chronological order: after Halloween II, before Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.
What to watch before Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Nothing. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) doesn't continue an earlier version, so it stands on its own.
Cast
- Danielle Harris as Jamie Lloyd
- Donald Pleasence as Dr. Loomis
- Ellie Cornell as Rachel Carruthers
- George P. Wilbur as Michael Myers
- Michael Pataki as Dr. Hoffman
- Beau Starr as Sheriff Meeker
- Kathleen Kinmont as Kelly
- Sasha Jenson as Brady
- Gene Ross as Earl
- Carmen Filpi as Jack Sayer
- Raymond O'Connor as Security Guard
- Jeff Olson as Richard Carruthers
Directed by Dwight H. Little.