Michael's back but something's gone.

It's 10 years after Michael Myers first attack on Haddonfield and he's now in Richmond Mental Institution. But a few days before Halloween, he escapes while being transfered to a different Hospital and goes to Haddonfield after his 7-year-old niece, Jamie(Danielle Harris). She's the daughter of Laurie Strode, who died in an accident 11 months earlier. Her older stepsister, Rachel(Ellie Cornell) is worried about the fact that Jamie has been having intense nightmares about a man with a knife in a white mask and has stopped sleeping. Rachel decides to cheer her up by taking her trick-or-treating for the first time in Jamie's life.
Dr. Sam Loomis(Donald Pleasance), who survived the explosion from the second movie, follows a trail of death created by Michael to Haddonfield in hopes that he can warn the people of Haddonfield before it's too late.
Michael attacks Jamie and Rachel on Halloween, but they get away by locking themselves in Sheriff Meeker's(Beau Starr) house. Dr. Loomis leaves to find Michael and Sheriff Meeker leaves to stop a bunch of drunks who are shooting everything that moves. It doesn't take long before a cop, Rachel, her boyfriend Brady, and the girl he's cheating on Rachel with to realize that they've made the classic horror movie mistake of locking themselves in with the killer. Michael begins to kill them off, one by one, but Rachel and Jamie escape using the roof.
They head to the school, meeting up with Dr. Loomis, only to be cut off by Michael. The beer bellies who were driving around earlier get Rachel and Jamie out of the town, not realizing Michael hitched a ride in the back of their pick-up truck. He gets thrown off and shot up by the state police. After he falls down a mine shaft and is assumed dead, everybody goes home. But when Rachel and Jamie get back to their house, an unseen figure, using scissors, stabs Rachel's mom in the bathroom. Hearing screams, Sheriff Meeker, Dr. Loomis and Rachel run up and seeing in horror that the killer is Jamie, in Michael's clown suit.

Halloween 4 was a welcome movie after Michael-less Halloween 3. It is the best sequel of Halloween over any of them so far. The movie has the same eerie atmosphere of the 1st one. The characters are all believable and, for the most part, likeable. Michael Myer's mask is closer than all of the other Halloweens to the original. It has good scenes and a good plot. Although people missed Jamie Lee Curtis's character, Laurie Strode, they still thoroughly enjoyed Danielle Harris's flawless portrayal of Jamie Lloyd. So why did this movie still feel like it was missing something?

Oh well. This movie was a bit eerie, as I said, but not scary at all to me. Michael was acted out really well, but something was missing. The acting was really good by the entire cast. Danielle Harris manages to make Jamie completely unannoying, and Ellie Cornell's character is so normal and likeable. The characters actually do something other than walk and look the wrong way the entire movie. The strange ending was fantastic and surpising.
This movie is very good and true to the first 2 Halloweens, with good music and directed by Dwight H. Little. The special effects are pretty good, the script was intelligent and the death scenes were creative and still not too gory, with some exceptions.