" He walks amongst us , brother; he has come back. And he is very angry".

richard-wheeler

This Halloween film and Halloween 5 were very interesting from all the rest because, it had something to do with symbolism. It was the symbol of the thorn which causes the person to KILL when a constellation of stars are seen on Halloween nights! The story begins when Jamie (J.C Brandy) had a baby and she had to save it from the murderous brother Michael (George.P.Wilbur) and then she got killed in a barn close to Haddonfield.

Now, a family had moved into the Myers' residence called the Strodes, these were relatives who adopted Laurie when she was a child.A grandmother, mother, father, girl and two boys were living in the house together.They were being watched by a man who lived across the road from the unwary family and he could remember last seeing Michael on October 31, 1978. The man's name was Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd).

Soon, the family's youngest son Danny (Devin Gardner) was having night mares about the "Boogey Man" and he started to draw thorn symbols on paper. Tommy decided to track down where Jamie's baby was and he discovered it in a bathroom at a train station. He decided to call the baby Stelia.

The detective is now Dr. Winn (Mitch Ryan) because, Mr. Loomis ( Donald Pleasance) had retired. Loomis decided to go over to the Strode's and tell them what happened in the house they were living in. He told the story to Mrs.Debra Strode ( Kim Karby) she was horrified by the story and called up John Strode (Bradford English). Fortunaely, he didn't believe her and not so soon, she was killed by Michael in the courtyard.

When the daughter, Kara Strode (Marianne Hagan) returned home, Debra was nowhere to be found and suddenly, she discovered Danny in his room with Tommy and he brought Danny and his mom over to his place and he explained the story to Kara. Suddenly, Danny saw Michael outside Tommy's window. And when Tommy's mother mentioned to Kara that Michael heard a voice that told him to kill his own family. As this was all happening, Mr. Strode came home and noticed that Debra was nowhere to be found and when he went into the basement; he noticed that the washing machine was on and when he opened it, he pulled out a shirt covered in blood. And then he got pushed into the main power of the house, got stabbed and then he got Electrocuted!!! Oh, I could remember this freaky part when a little girl was dancing under a tree, and her mom noticed blood on her dress and then; this dead body DROPS OUT! Gruesome. And when the oldest son, Tim (Keith Bogart) followed by his girlfriend Mary (Susan Swift) while the mom was watching through Tommy's telescope from his room. And when the mom went into the house to look for Danny because, he went in there, and when he went upstairs, her mom's body drops out of the ceiling and she discovers Tim's and Mary's bodies' under a duvet in Tim's bedroom.

And to end this review, there were some kiff scenes too! When Kara saw Tomy's mom coming after her with a knife; she goes through the window to save herself and when she woke up, she was in a maximum security ward. Another was when Michael went into a surgery room and then, STAB! SHRIEK! HOWL! CRASH! BOOM! BANG! Everyone's dead. And the last one, was a full shot with Michael throwing Tommy across the room in the maximum security ward and when Tommy smacked Michael so hard against his head with fluid squirting from his eye with him screaming so house that it goes through Haddonfield, to the Strode's house, and with a medium shot set on a Jack'O' Lantern which was on the veranda and it went out.

This movie was the last Halloween film that Pleasance stared in when he passed away in the Alpes- Marines in France from the complications from heart valve in surgery. R.I.P Pleasence. You made directors of the Halloween movies PROUD!!!!

score 8/10

richard-wheeler 15 October 2005

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1194161/