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 Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD)
 Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD) ... DVD released 01 May, 2007 at Hollywood Pictures Home Video / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL / 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 humour and style, but it's all set up 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) co-star, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean AxmakerNewest Review: ... 20 years after the events of that film as evil killer Michael Myers returns to wreak havoc again. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee ... more ... Curtis), who was the sister of Myers and the only person to have survived his numerous attacks, is living under an assumed name and seems to have rebuilt her life, now having a son, John (Josh Hartnett), a husband, and a career as a principal at a local high school. However, Laurie hasn't forgotten what's happened, and firmly remembers that this is the 20th anniversary of the events of the first film. Soon enough, her students and colleagues end up dead, and Myers targets here himself. Laurie will therefore have to fac...more |
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Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD): Halloween: Blood really is thicker than water (1006 words)
by - written on 15/10/07 (Very useful, 47 readings)
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It seems fitting, after reviewing the first 2 Halloweens, that I should review the other Halloween that is of notable mention. 20 years after the original, and after 5 fair to poor sequels, Jamie Lee Curtis happened to have it mentioned in an interview that it was coming up to her 20th anniversary in the movie industry. Keen to mark the occassion and give something back to the audience, as well as revisit the character she most admired in her career, Curtis approached original director John Carpenter to do the film. With Carpenter and Debra Hill busy on other projects, they passed. So she had Kevin Williamson (responsible for Scream) write a 4 page draft for the ... Read the complete review
Myers is back 20 years on! (518 words)
by - written on 28/02/09 (Very useful, 41 readings)
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I don't know why, but I'm in a bit of a horror mood tonight. I watched The Descent earlier, a great British horror film, and then I turn the TV on, and Halloween H20 is on. I hadn't seen this film before, but had seen a few of the previous Halloween films, and so knew the basic premise of the film, whereby the serial killer with the freaky white facemask Michael Myers goea around killing people in the quest to find and kill his sister. Recently recovering from ending her brother's life, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has upped sticks and started a new life as the headmistress of a school, changing her name to Keri Tate at the same time. She and son John ... Read the complete review
Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD): Not the best but not the worst (763 words)
by - written on 05/06/02 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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Halloween H20 sees the return of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), Michael Myers's original victim. She now goes by the name of Keri Tate after she faked her death to finally be free of her homicidal brother. She is the Prinicpal of a top private school which her son, John (Josh Hartnett) attends along with his girlfriend Molly(Michelle Williams) and friends Sarah (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) and Charlie (Adam Hann-Byrd). Keri is having bad dreams about what happened to her on Halloween 20 years ago and is worried about her son because he is the same age as she was when she met Michael. John tells her that she needs to get over it and that Michael Myers is dead, but her ... Read the complete review
Halloween 3: Trilogy (2012 words)
by - written on 19/12/00 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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Without John Carpenter spending around 20 days shooting and £30,000 making Halloween we wouldn’t have had most horror movies, an example is Scream. However Halloween H20 owes a lot to Scream as well. Scream made slasher movies profitable again, it drew in a whole new audience to the genre by updating its conventions and getting a new, sexier cast to play the victims and killers. In 1998 Halloween H20 hopped on the bandwagon hoping to put the disappointment of a $15m gross of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers behind them. Their judgement paid off and H20 and it managed to gross a none too bad $60m and around £8m here. It is fair to say that most ... Read the complete review
Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD): The return of Michael Myers.... (720 words)
by - written on 22/02/02 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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Michael Myers returns yet again to our screens. Donned in the same mask as the last time he returns to attempt to kill one person…. his sister. 20 years on from the original Halloween Laurie Strode is targeted yet again. Last time she faked her death, changed her name and moved house to try to evade Michael Myers. She now plays the part of a Californian private school teacher. =========== ~ Boring bits ~ =========== Genre: Horror sequel Released: Oct 1999 Rating: 18 Duration: 87 mins. Set in: Los Angeles, California Director: Steve Miner Producer: Paul Freeman Cast: Laurie ... Read the complete review
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