Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humor and style, but it's all setup for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) costar, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: Miramax
  1 win & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
1998
86
Website
1,262 Views
This summer, terror won't be taking a vacation.

Laurie Strode:
[after catching John and Charlie out of school] What the f*** do you think you're doing?

John Tate:
Mom, I'm real uncomfortable with you saying that word.

Laurie Strode:
Then don't put me in the position, John! Do you know what day it is? Of all the days for you to pull this sh*t, just what do you think you can do? Just wander around town? I don't ask you for very much, just give me one day!

John Tate:
Mom, I've given 17 years!

Laurie Strode:
And I need you to be responsible! Do you know what that means?

John Tate:
Responsible?

Laurie Strode:
Responsible!

John Tate:
Don't talk to me about responsibility, Mom!

Laurie Strode:
I just need this one thing!

John Tate:
Mom, I am not responsible for you. That's it; I've had enough. I can't take it anymore, Mom. He's dead. Michael Myers is dead!

Laurie Strode:
What do you want me to say?

John Tate:
That it's over, that we should try to make some attempt at a happy existence, Mom, 'cause all the sh*t that's going on inside of your head is leaking out on me, and I can't take it anymore. You told me, yourself, you watched him burn.

Laurie Strode:
I didn't exactly stay to see his ashes, John.

John Tate:
Mom, 20 years. 20 years. Don't you think he would've shown up by now? What's he waiting for, huh?

[Laurie doesn't respond]

John Tate:
Mom, I can't live like this [Starts to walk away]

Laurie Strode:
What...What does that mean, John?

John Tate:
If you wanna stay handcuffed to your dead brother, that's fine, but you're not dragging me along, not anymore!


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