The film followed this serial killer, who was committed to a sanitarium when he was six years old for murdering his sister, as he escapes and returns to Haddonfield to stalk and kill Laurie and her friends. It was explained that Laurie faked her death to escape from Michael, changed her name to Keri Tate, and years later moved to California with her son, John. She appeared in the sequel, Halloween: Resurrection , where she died after Michael stabbed her and threw her off the roof.
But none of that quite prepares the audience for the final scene, after Michael has supposedly been vanquished for good. Up until that point, most of the movie's WTF Moments have come from baffling storytelling choices, absurdly exaggerated violence, and blatant continuity errors check out the ever-changing burn scar on Loomis' face! But director Dwight H. Little ends the movie with a true shocker: As her foster mother prepares her a bath, Jamie pulls her costume's mask down over her face, walks down the hall, grabs a pair of scissors, and uses them to stab the woman who raised her.
Little depicts the sequence in the same point-of-view style as the opening of Carpenter's original movie, clearly meant to equate the previously sweet and innocent Jamie with a homicidal maniac. She emerges, covered in blood, as Loomis points his gun at her, just as he would at Michael, barely being restrained from killing her.
Roll credits. Harris pulls off that sudden shift just as well as she does all of Jamie's other emotions, from fear to elation to melancholy.
She does the same in the following year's Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers , which downplays Jamie's murderous turn in favor of putting her in a clinic for mentally disturbed children and gives her a silly psychic connection to Michael that manifests in convulsions and gesticulations.
There are flaws and it is not one of my favourites of the year, but there are a lot of strengths and there have been worse films this year. As far as horror films go, the year has been patchy for horror, it's one of the best ones on the most part. Starting with 'Halloween's' problems, some of the humour is misplaced and out of kilter too much with the rest of the film and a few elements of the story could have been explored and gone further more.
The big twist also didn't seem fully realised although a brave one and the ending felt rushed and abrupt, also felt that there could have been more tension and less unintentionally silly camp. Have always been wary of open-ended endings and that they can be dangerous to do in case a planned sequel falls through.
However, there is an awful lot to like about 'Halloween' Along with 'Halloween H 20 Years Later' it is the best looking of the follow-ups, it is very eerily shot and is close in style to the autumnal look and visual iconography of the original, something that most of the follow-ups failed to do.
Loved the haunting music score, here an asset rather than a drawback in how it adds a lot to the atmosphere and enhances it, coming close too in being a character of its own. While flawed, the script is mostly smart with in-jokes and references that are effectively embedded and coming over as affectionate rather than random.
There are humorous moments too. The deaths are horrifyingly creative and the most shocking since 'Halloween H20', the gore not going overboard on the shock value or looking cheap, not distracting at all. The beginning is unsettlingly tense and Michael Myers has not been this freaky in a long time.
Some moments have surprising heart and the scares made me jump and bite my nails. It was great for the film to return to the franchise's roots and treat the original with respect, while with enough new touches of its own. One of the better examples this year in attempts to cater to everybody.
Didn't find myself annoyed by the characters and there was personality to them to stop them from being bland. Jamie Lee Curtis has still got it, none of what made her character great is lost or forgotten, and Nick Castle is supremely terrifying as Myers. Concluding, didn't bowl me over but found myself enjoying it all the same. TheLittleSongbird Oct 25, FAQ 5.
What happened to Allyson's boyfriend when she left the dance after their fight? He just seem to disappear from the film. According to Wikipedia, this is a direct sequel to the film of the same name, was it necessary to give it the same name as the film if this movie is a direct sequel? I mean what sequel gets the same name as the original?
If this picks up right after the first original, it makes no sense. User reviews Review. Top review. Yes, 'tis true! Michael is back! And he wants revenge for his death! After the failure that was the 3rd Halloween sequel, the writers knew that was mainly due to the absence of Michael Myers. So what did they do? They invited Michael back in for the 4th sequel and back into the story of Halloween. Even though I did enjoy the 3rd sequel, I do agree that I missed Michael.
He's my favorite boogeyman, so it'd be cool to see him return and do what he does best, slice and dice and scare the heck out of me. Well is this really scary? Not too much, but still it's a fun sequel to get into and watch in the dark.
I like the story and how they are continuing into the Myer's past and how far Michael will go to destroy this blood line. Although I was disappointed to not have Laurie Strode in this one, it was interesting to see how her legacy lives on with her daughter and now she will have the struggle with Michael Myers. Michael Myers has been in a coma for ten years, when his massacre was stopped by Dr.
Samuel J. Loomis and Laurie Strode. He awakens when he hears that Laurie Strode, his sister, is deceased, but her daughter, Jamie Lloyd is alive and well in Haddonfield. He kills the ambulance crew and escapes. Loomis races to Haddonfield in an attempt to bring Myers' killing spree to an end once and for all. In Haddonfield, his niece Jamie Lloyd, has been adopted by the Carruthers family. She has frequent nightmares about Michael, though she does not know who he is. On Halloween night, Jamie goes out trick-or-treating dressed as a clown with her teenage foster sister Rachel.
Her uncle, Michael, follows them. Meanwhile, Loomis arrives in Haddonfield after an exhausting journey, and contacts the police department to inform them of Myers' escape. Myers has also blacked out the town's electricity by throwing a technician onto a electrical box and singlehandedly annihilated the entire police force.
The girls barricade themselves in the Sheriff's house, while awaiting the arrival of the state police where Michael follows them and you'll have to see the movie to see the exciting conclusion.
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