halloween4-behindthescenes

The first two Halloweens were successful, but everybody came out of Halloween III saying, 'Where was Michael?'" producer Paul Freeman, a friend of Moustapha Akkad with a long list of credits to his name, explained to Fangoria magazine back in 1988.Halloween 4 was welcomed by audiences who longed for the Return of Michael Myers. "Michael Myers is the real thing...and there is no substitute for the real thing.""I think [Michael's] the way you want to take him. I don't think we set out to present any particular sort of person," Donald Pleasence told Horror Fan magazine.
"One of the obvious challenges in making a part 4 of anything is to interest a contemporary audience in old characters and themes," said director Dwight Little. "What I'm trying to do is capture the mood of the original Halloween and yet take a lot of new chances. What we're attempting to do is walk a fine line between horror and mystery.Halloween 4 will not be an ax-in-the-forehead kind of movie." Paul Freeman agreed. "This film does contain some humerous moments, but it's not of the spoof or send-up variety. It's humor that rises out of the film's situations and quickly turns back into terror."
The movie was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah. The scenes at Sheriff Meeker's house were shot inside the Ellis Mansion."What we did," says art director Roger Crandall, "is get a book of odd, spooky Halloween images, still photographs." The art department looked to this book for haunting imagery - from scarecrows on tractors to pumpkins on a porch. Most of the pictures in the book were a bit odd. "Just something a little bit eerie about them." The movie was shot during March. As in previous films, pumpkins weren't the easiest thing to find. A crew member fell and cut his wrists while filming the Michael/Brady confrontation in front of the large window. The film ended up costing $5½ million.
"We had so many scripts for another Halloween sent to us," Moustapha Akkad told Horror Fan. "There were so many stories pitched to us. Dwight Little recommended Alan B. McElroy to do the rewrite, and he came out with a fantastic script. We sent it to Debra Hill, one of the original producers, and she said, 'That's the greatest script I've read out of the hundreds I've seen."
"The first two Halloween movies were the cornerstones of my college years," screenwriter Alan McElroy told Fangoria "When I first saw the original, I was dating a girl and took her to a theater in Boston to see it. We were the only ones in the place, but she was climbing all over me. When HALLOWEEN II came out, a group of friends and I got completely blitzed and saw it, and we had the best time. So when the firector, Dwight Little, asked me to write the script, I jumped at the chance. Here I was going to bring the Shape - Michael Myers - back to life. It's a piece of film history. He's truly an icon." McElroy wrote the script in 11 days to avoid a Writers Guild strike.

Facts-
The part of Micheal Myers was played this time by stuntman George Wilbur.

In the original script Jamie Lloyd's name was going to be Britty, but they renamed the character after Jamie Lee Curtis.

Dannielle Harris also played Bruce Willis's daughter in the action film "The last Boy Scout".

The music was once again composed by Alan Howarth who also scored parts 2 & 3.

Michael's eyes were shot out by a gun in Halloween II, but now they seem to have healed up completely.

The German version of this not-so violent film was cut during the gore scenes to get a 16 rating.

Swedish version is heavily cut!