Headscratchers / Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

• How did Michael end up on the truck at the end? When did he cling to it? We see the truck pull up, load the girls onto it, and leave. If Michael clung onto the bottom, he would have had to come out of the school before the girls did, at which point the people pulling up probably should have been able to notice him.
  • Offscreen Teleportation. All slasher film villains have this power. It's how people like Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers can suddenly appear in front of their intended victims despite said victims clearly being able to out run them.
  • More mundanely: in the scene in question, all four rednecks disembark the truck to converse with Rachel at the entrance to the school. This gives Michael an opportunity to make an end-around from the other side of the school and hide himself on the truck while everyone's attention is elsewhere.

• We learn that rather than die in the explosion from H2, Michael suffered third degree burns all over his body and was in a coma for 10 years. The only reason we see him coming out of it is because the paramedics talk about Jamie during the transfer. Why did nobody use this to just blow his brains out while he couldn’t do anything?! You’re telling me that Dr. Loomis (and this is ignoring the absurdity of how he survived being in the center of the explosion and coming out with only a limp and small facial/hand burns), Laurie, the police, hospital medics, anybody who knew or was related to one of his victims, or just anyone at all didn’t take advantage of the immobile mass murderer to just kill him? That the police, state or local, decided that it was probably a good idea to temporarily forget the law, and at least try to kill the psychopath who survived an explosion? I find that rather hard to believe.
  • Most likely to both their consciences and the eyes of the general public, it would be a case of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!. Sure, Laurie and Loomis have tried killing Michael before, but those instances were in self-defence. Killing someone, even a crazed serial killer, while they're in a coma would not only be morally questionable, but there would also be a lot of people angry over that person's constitutional rights being violated.
  • Given how they were keeping Michael in the basement of the hospital, and the unawareness of him among the general public, it doesn’t seem like anyone would know if somebody killed him, and just put his corpse in a wood chipper.
  • Frankly, at this point constitutional rights should have gone out the window when he survived an explosion. Also, how do you kill a guy who survived that?
  • If you follow the Cult of Thorn timeline, they must have been protecting him.

• On the night Michael Myers escapes, Jamie sees the ambulance that was transporting him in front of her house in Haddonfield. Yet the next morning we find out said ambulance crashed "a four hour drive" away from Haddonfield, and he escaped on foot. So either Michael killed the paramedics, drove to Haddonfield to briefly park in front of her house, then drove hours away from Haddonfield just to crash the ambulance and work his way BACK to Haddonfield - or Jamie was hallucinating/imagining the exact ambulance he was in for no reason even though she couldn't have even known about his transfer. Unless you decide to take this as an early sign of the psychic link she's formed with Michael by Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.
  • Yes...it's clearly a hallucination from the psychic link, as evidenced by Michael showing up in her room with the new mask during the same scene despite the fact that at that point in the film he was nowhere near Haddonfield yet, was still in bandages, and hadn't yet even gotten the new mask.

• Michael's Vader Breath has been established from the first film, yet he's able to ride undetected in the back of the police officer's car. In fact he's able to be undetected in many instances in this and other films when people should hear him. Either TPTB forget about this when it comes to these moments, or he can control it when necessary.
  • Theory: Michael's heavy breathing is when he is excited because he is about to kill, or that when he physically exerts himself he has to pant through his mask (seriously, if you ever wore a latex mask for a long period of time, it can get hard to breathe). When he's in the back of the police officer's car, he's rather calm and simply laying down, so his breathing is more controlled.
    • You're both wrong unfortunately. They simply Adapted Out his heavy breathing altogether in this film. You don't hear Michael once throughout the entire movie; he's completely silent from start to finish.

• What the hell does "clear as breasts in blue suede shoes" mean?!

• Why do they need the radio ham to call for reinforcements? Can't the Sheriff just switch his radio over to the State Police frequency?
  • Probably not. Many radios that police carry on person and in the car are preprogrammed with 2 to 3 channels, intended for city/county/personal communication. The police station would have a "base unit" which can have its frequencies adjusted much like a ham radio. Also, the base unit is connected to a large power source and has a much larger antenna which makes it suitable for reaching state police who may not receive the underpowered signal of other units. This is something quite common for small or rural departments.