Halloween H20
Twenty Years Later
This smart and suspenseful thriller scares up a bone-chilling good time with original scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies, Halloween I & II) and a hot cast of hip young stars! Now the headmistress of a private school, Laurie Strode (Curtis) is still struggling with the horrifying, 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Myers...when he suddenly reappears with a vengeance! And this Halloween, his terror will strike a whole new generation! Laurie's rebellious son (Josh Hartnett - The Faculty), his girlfriend (Michelle Williams - TV's Dawson's Creek), and the school security guard (LL Cool J - Woo, B.A.P.S.) will become Michael's newest victims unless Laurie can conquer her greatest fears and put evil in its place once and for all! The time has come again for you to experience the frightening fun of Halloween - the motion picture series that totally redefined terror!
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Ok Movie - sampid
"Halloween H20:20 Years Later" made by Steve Miner("House",the second and the third part of "Friday the 13th" series)is quite good,especially if you liked John Carpenter's classic "Halloween".The film disregards Parts 4-6,which is not necessarily a bad thing.Luckily it has plenty of suspense,and a good amount of scares-especially the prologue is quite terrifying.There is only a little bit of gore,so gorehounds will be disappointed.Jamie Lee Curtis is pretty good as a Laurie Strode,but the other characters played by the supporting cast are shallow and empty.The score by Marco Beltrami sounds exactly like the one from "Scream" and this is surely big mistake.All in all I enjoyed this one and you should too if you are a fan of "Halloween" series.7 out of 10-a solid horror flick!Fun For The Fans - Others Stay Away! - revsdd
I thought I was Halloween'ed out! I loved the first movie, thought the second was pretty good - never understood why the third one had nothing to do with the first two - was bored by the fourth and then gave up. When I first heard of Halloween H20 I thought, "oh no, not again!" The franchise - I thought - had been ruined long ago by too many sequels. But I was wrong. This was a good movie.
I love Jamie Lee Curtis. She's a great actress, who can play drama, horror, comedy. She reprises the role of Laurie Stroud, 20 years after Michael Myer's supposed death, having moved far away and changed her identity, trying to deal with her past demons (not too successfully either.) At the very least she's become a very over-protective mother to her 17 year old son (as it turns out, for a good reason!) Even 20 years later, on Halloween day, she still looks for Michael to return, which finally he does. The rest is pretty typical "Halloween" stuff. No, this isn't Oscar-calibre by any stretch of the imagination, but it's fun. But, if you've never seen the original movies - or didn't like them - this movie will not hit home with you.
Three minor weaknesses and criticisms:
(1) I really missed Donald Pleasance (but nothing could be done about that.)
(2) I thought having Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee Curtis's mother) playing her maternal-type secretary was a bit hokey.
(3) Adam Arkin did nothing for me as Laurie's new beau.
Aside from those things, it's a great movie for the fans of the original.Ignorance is Bliss - CaptainRhodes
H20 is an effective installment to the Halloween franchise despite it's total lack of recognition of the previous movies. What, do the filmmakers and backers have the worst memories possible or they simply just do not give a (expletive) about the fans????
As a stand alone sequel to the original 1978 Halloween, H20 does it's job. We get Jamie Lee reprising her Strode role and Michael back with a vengeance, along with the classic theme scattered here and there. It is entertaining and satisfying to call it a successful sequel. We can't ask for much more really. Us hardcore fans bitch and moan with each entry but we know damn well that the original will never be matched. Sometimes we must just bite our tongues and just enjoy the show.
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Ok Movie - sampid
"Halloween H20:20 Years Later" made by Steve Miner("House",the second and the third part of "Friday the 13th" series)is quite good,especially if you liked John Carpenter's classic "Halloween".The film disregards Parts 4-6,which is not necessarily a bad thing.Luckily ...Fun For The Fans - Others Stay Away! - revsdd
I thought I was Halloween'ed out! I loved the first movie, thought the second was pretty good - never understood why the third one had nothing to do with the first two - was bored by the fourth and then gave up. When I first heard of Halloween H20 I thought, ...Ignorance is Bliss - CaptainRhodes
H20 is an effective installment to the Halloween franchise despite it's total lack of recognition of the previous movies. What, do the filmmakers and backers have the worst memories possible or they simply just do not give a (expletive) about the fans???? ...