Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

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Jason H What the heck is Halloween water, anyway??? Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/06/25 Full Review Garrett P. It’s certainly not as bad as the ones that have come before, but a terrible title and cliche slasher tropes keep it from being as good as the other bad sequels. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/04/25 Full Review Cooper J. One of the best Halloween sequels seeing the great return of Laurie Strode Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/27/25 Full Review Jacob P Not quite a perfect Halloween film, but it's something different. It's not incomprehensible gibberish, like Curse, and it's got a great plot. The ending? Perfect finale, but Resurrection dicked that up Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/27/25 Full Review Allan C Ignoring parts 3-6, this direct sequel to HALLOWEEN 2 finds Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode, now the dean of a posh private school, having faked her own death and living under an assumed name, and the mother of a rebellious young son, Josh Hartnett in his film debut. SCREAM had just come out two years before and breathed new life into the tired slasher film genre with witty self-relative humor and winks to horror audiences who all know the “rules” of horror movies. Kevin Williamson, writer of SCREAM, was one of the producers of this film, and his “hip” sensibility is all over this film. Unfortunately, he was not one of the writers on the film, and it’s nowhere as clever as any of his best films. Most of the film feels too much like a CW teen drama and trying way too hard to be hip like SCREAM. However, the last 30 minutes of the film does deliver the slasher film goods, and the film’s final showdown between Laurie Strode and The Shape actually had the ending I kept wondering through all the other sequels, where the would-be heroes unsuccessfully kill Michael Myers. The ending has (SPOILER ALERT!) Laurie rams Michel with her car, pinning him against a fallen tree, where she then beheads him. End of film! It’s a great finale that gives a nice definitive death to Michael, which was one of Jamie Lee Curtis’ demands if she were to appear in the film. She didn’t say they wouldn’t be allowed to make a sequel (because they did), but that the ending could not give even a hint there would be a sequel. Ending with a definitive death for Michael, getting your head chopped off is about as definitive as you can get. Overall, this is a mixed bag of a sequel, but it’s better than most of the sequels. Below is my review from the last time I watched. 11-3-16 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) **1/2 I remember being pleasantly surprised by the seventh entry in the Halloween franchise when it first came out, but rewatching it now just made me want to rewatch Rob Zombie's excellent reboot instead, which did take the time to really develop a fascinating backstory for Michael Myers and develop him as a real character. This film has the novelty of Jamie Lee Curtis returning to the franchise 20 years later, but the film never really rises above its slasher film roots. Kevin Williamson, who was just coming off of the highly successful "Scream," was one of the producers and did uncredited script work. This film isn't as winking or meta as "Scream," but it does have its moments of humor, which does help add to this film's entertainment value. The film also features the film debut of Josh Hartnett and supporting performances by Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Janet Leigh, LL Cool J, and a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt. On the downside, the script lacks any kind of character development or interesting backstory for Michael Myers. Although that was kind of a hallmark of the 80s slasher film, the unstoppable, unknowing, mindless killer, it doesn't make for much of an interesting story. Myers only serves as something for the other characters to react to. The film does certainly benefit from the strength of Curtis as an actress to react to Myers, but it's not really enough to make this film much more than a competent slasher film. And one minor quibble that actually bugged me quite a bit is that the mask looked so vastly different from the original that I almost couldn't take it seriously, as if this wasn't really Michael Myers. Why couldn't they just spray-paint a Captain Kirk mask white like they did in the original? Oh well.  Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/15/25 Full Review Garry A I remember going to see this twice when it was at the theaters. It's got a cool cameo and references to past installments. The final confrontation between Laurie and Michael is epic. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/03/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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