The film was adapted and transformed into a Broadway play calledApplausein 1970, with Lauren Bacall (later replaced by Anne Baxter!) as Margo Channing.The script for Wes Craven""s new, intellectualizedNightmarefilm was the film itself - a film-within-a-film.Then, theyproceeded to kill every remaining undead zombie within the mall ("We""ll get it all locked off.With the tagline: "Family is Forever."Plans were underway for an 11th film,Halloween III (2011)directed by Patrick Lussier.Body Count:20 (some in Laurie""s dream sequences), plus one murdered, cannibalized dog.Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)d.Dwight H.Little, 88 minutesFilm Plot SummaryOCTOBER 30, 1988.The film opened with the credits viewed with the fall harvest in a rural farm area, of mostly Halloween-related imagery (pumpkins, skull/ghost/skeletal decorations, pitchforks, scarecrows, bare trees, etc.