Halloween IV (1988) - Damnation, Mister!

There’s this great moment, a fun setpiece, where the ambulance is upside down in a slight river under an elderly bridge. Blood all over the place, inside and outside the ambulance, Loomis quite assured while administrator, Hoffman (Pataki) isn’t that Michael is once again heading for Haddonfield. The way Little shoots the trip to Haddonfield I really like a lot. Like when they go to the gas station and Loomis finds the mechanic inside the garage dead (Michael using a rebar to kill him) along with the corpse of a diner waitress/cook on the floor behind a counter. Loomis, with gun in hand, tries to keep Michael from leaving the diner location alive, shooting at cabinets inside the kitchen. Still without his mask, Michael flees in the mechanic’s truck, in the mechanic’s suit, his face still in bandages. Leaving behind the garage and Loomis, Michael hits a light pole that sets Loomis’ car on fire. He’s left to hitch a ride to Haddonfield, slowed down in his pursuit of The Shape.

And probably my favorite moment in the film has Dr. Loomis meeting up with the apocalyptic reverend in his decaying ride. Carmen Filpi, the Reverend Jackson Sayer, “hunting Damnation”. Loomis is, too. I just like this idea that Loomis meets someone on a journey that continues to some inevitable end. It is such a departure from Rachel, her boyfriend, Brady (Sasha Jenson), and the sexy, leggy Kelly (Kathleen Kinmont), daughter of Haddonfield’s Sheriff Meeker (Beau Starr), with Jamie needing a babysitter furthering and fueling the angsty love triangle, interrupted by Myers. Eventually, though, Loomis returns to the sheriff’s office, warns Meeker of what is in Haddonfield, and the film sort of slides back into its plot routine.

Jack Sayer: "You're huntin' it, ain't ya? Yeah, you're huntin' it, all right. Just like me."

Dr. Loomis: "What are you hunting, Mr. Sayer?"

Jack Sayer: "Apocalypse, End of the World, Armageddon. It's always got a face and a name. I've been huntin' the bastard for 30 years, give or take. Come close a time or two. Too damn close! You can't kill damnation, Mister. It don't die like a man dies."

 Dr. Loomis: "I know that, Mr. Sayer."