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Halloween H20
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by Walt Disney Video
Sales Rank: 9464
Price: $9.99
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<I>Halloween</I> is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. <I>Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later</I>, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (<I>Friday the 13th</I> parts 2 and 3, <I>House</I>), 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 <I>Scream</I> 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 (<I>Dawson's Creek</I>) costar, and the script received uncredited polish from <I>Scream</I> writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. <I>--Sean Axmaker</I>
Viewer Reviews
Halloween H20 is the worst horror flick ever! I can't believe Jamie Lee Curtis reprised her iconic role as Laurie Strode. Halloween is such a classic film, all the sequels are stupid and not even scary. Josh Hartnett and Michelle Williams over do it here, the whole Laurie and Michael Myers are brother and sister is so calculated, I didn't like Halloween 2 and I don't like this one either.
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