Retrospective documentary on the making of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).Retrospective documentary on the making of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).Retrospective documentary on the making of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).
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James Rosenthal
- Narrator
- (voice)
Dwight H. Little
- Self
- (as Dwight Little)
Donald Pleasence
- Dr. Sam Loomis
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis documentary is featured on the DVD for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), released in 2001.
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Nice Featurette On the Making of Halloween 4
Halloween 4 Final Cut (2001)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
This 17-minute documentary can be found on the Anchor Bay release of HALLOWEEN 4. Director Dwight Little, screenwriter Alan McElroy, producer Paul Freeman, musician Alan Howarth are joined by Moustapha Akkad, George Wilbur, Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell in a series of interviews about the production of the film. It should go without saying that 17-minutes really doesn't give you a great view of everything that happened but for a featurette this this is extremely well-made and fans of the series and film will get some pretty good stories. We start off hearing about how Akkad bought the rights to the series back just so that he could try and return Myers to his good old days of being a scary monster. Writer McElroy discusses how a writer's strike was forcing him to rush the screenplay and that's why he decided to just come up with a story that he would like to see. Little talks about how he got involved with the production and also discusses the various technical stuff he lifted from Hitchcock. Both Harris and Cornell go over how they got the roles and everyone else discusses why they were both so good in their parts. Even Wilbur, who plays Myers, gets to relive some fun on the set when he was hiding under a bed scaring anyone who came close to his reach. Overall this is a pretty fun featurette to view after you watch the film. There are longer documentaries that were released after this one that go into more details but this here is still worth viewing.
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
This 17-minute documentary can be found on the Anchor Bay release of HALLOWEEN 4. Director Dwight Little, screenwriter Alan McElroy, producer Paul Freeman, musician Alan Howarth are joined by Moustapha Akkad, George Wilbur, Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell in a series of interviews about the production of the film. It should go without saying that 17-minutes really doesn't give you a great view of everything that happened but for a featurette this this is extremely well-made and fans of the series and film will get some pretty good stories. We start off hearing about how Akkad bought the rights to the series back just so that he could try and return Myers to his good old days of being a scary monster. Writer McElroy discusses how a writer's strike was forcing him to rush the screenplay and that's why he decided to just come up with a story that he would like to see. Little talks about how he got involved with the production and also discusses the various technical stuff he lifted from Hitchcock. Both Harris and Cornell go over how they got the roles and everyone else discusses why they were both so good in their parts. Even Wilbur, who plays Myers, gets to relive some fun on the set when he was hiding under a bed scaring anyone who came close to his reach. Overall this is a pretty fun featurette to view after you watch the film. There are longer documentaries that were released after this one that go into more details but this here is still worth viewing.
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- Oct 31, 2011
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