History YMMV / Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers

* CompleteMonster: Michael Myers. See [[YMMV/{{Halloween}} here]].

* ValuesResonance: This film directly messed with the normal expectations of the slasher genre. Rachel was clearly planning on having sex with Brady before being told to go trick or treating with Jamie, Sheriff Meeker is clearly depicted as an incredibly competent and formidable law enforcement officer, and Brady, despite having cheated on Rachel with Kelly, is still depicted positively and his death is treated as sad. This was relatively rare during the 80's, 90's, and even the early 2000's. Nowadays, with many film critics conceding the original slasher genre has a lot of UnfortunateImplications, subverting, or outright deviating from the slasher genre norm is becoming increasingly common in cinema.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A teenaged Lindsey Wallace from the original film appears briefly in one scene as Rachel's friend. It would have been interesting to see her reaction to Michael's return, considering she was there the night of his first killing spree.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Brady's death. Sure, he cheated on Rachel with Kelly, but his death is quite somber, and Rachel is begging Brady to come with them, and later is on the verge of outright weeping as it becomes obvious to her Michael will kill him.

* TheWoobie: Poor Jamie Lloyd.

** It also would have been neat to have actually seen Michael slaughter the Haddonfield police in their station like Film/TheTerminator. Although, that may have been what they were trying to avoid in addition to the NothingIsScarier aspect.

* {{Tearjerker:}} Brady's death. Sure, he cheated on Rachel with Kelly, but his death is quite somber, and Rachel is begging Brady to come with them, and later is on the verge of outright weeping as it becomes obvious to her Michael will kill him.

* Tearjerker: Brady's death. Sure, he cheated on Rachel with Kelly, but his death is quite somber, and Rachel is begging Brady to come with them, and later is on the verge of outright weeping as it becomes obvious to her Michael will kill him.

** Rachel also gets praise for overcoming her fear and becoming an ActionSurvivor determined to protect her adopted sister. She manages to get the best of Michael twice, the latter of which involves her running him down with a truck.

** Sheriff Ben Meeker is also quite the beloved character as well, being an overall welcome aversion to the usual PoliceAreUseless cliche present in slasher flicks and Beau Starr's intense performance being praised. He's genuinely competent at his job and actively assists Dr. Loomis in his efforts to stop Myers. Not to mention being the one leading the shootout against Michael at the end helped garner him a lot of fans.

* SoOkayItsAverage: After the deviative ''Season of the Witch'', ''The Return'' was made to closely resemble the first two movies and avoid changing the formula tooooo much, though it did feature a couple switches (child protagonist, the twist ending)

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jaime Lloyd, and by extension Danielle Harris, are often considered the best aspect of the film and for good reason. Between being a new take on the FinalGirl formula (a child instead of a teenager) and an overall strong and likable character, she's remained one of the most popular characters in the franchise to this day.

* DudeNotFunny: The kids posing as fake Myers' while the cops are looking for the real Myers. One of them ends up getting shot by a trigger happy posse.

* SoOkayItsAverage: After the deviative ''Season of the Witch'', ''The Return'' was made to closely resemble the first two movies, without adding really anything new to the formula.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel

* SoOkayItsAverage

* NightmareFuel: Jamie's dream sequence at the beginning.