Review of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) by Michael H — 26 May 2012

A quantum leap better than its two immediate predecessors, even if it's not the first film - for nothing is the first film. It never flirts with the greatness of its predecessor, like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors did, but it is firmly good enough, and "good enough" is something that conspicuously and continuously evaded almost all of the slasher films of the 1980s.

We're grading on a curve here, remember, and whileHalloween 4 isn't a bit imaginative, at least it's competent. Thank God for small favors, I say; I didn't hurt after I watched it, and for a 1988 slasher, that's something like praise.