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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
MEANRANK
56/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4618
- IMDb #4855
- Google retired #2874
- Rotten Tomatoes #3854
- Metacritic #4289
- Letterboxd #4556
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4220
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3749
- Metacritic Critics #4629
- Metacritic Audience #3182
- Douban #2180
- Kinopoisk #5358
- AlloCiné #5037
- Trakt #4669
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 34, highest is Google on 78. Critics average 38, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The comatose shape of evil is being transferred between hospitals ten years after his last massacre. He awakens upon learning he has a young niece, Jamie. He escapes and returns to Haddonfield to hunt her down, while her adoptive sister and the town’s sheriff try to protect her.
Details
- Director
- Dwight H. Little
- Writer
- Alan B. McElroy
- Released
- 21 October 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $17.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Best DVD or Blu-ray Collection 2015 | Best DVD or Blu-ray Collection | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Winner |
| Best Horror Film 1990 | Best Horror Film | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Nominee |
| Best Writing 1990 | Best Writing | Alan B. McElroy | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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3 awards — Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
×| Best DVD or Blu-ray Collection | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Winner |
| Best Horror Film | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Nominee |
| Best Writing | Alan B. McElroy | Nominee |