Confusingly Predictable (Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD))

Member Name: clissoldjones

Product:	Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (DVD)
Date:	17/05/01 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: hmmm...are there any?, Curtis is ok

Disadvantages: all so predictable

Right lets get things straight. Halloween H20 is a sequal to Halloween and Halloween 2, but not to Halloween 3 which wasn't even about Michael Myers, or Halloween 4,5 and 6, which seem to have been forgotten. If that sounds confusing then I don't blame you, as the writers for this latest slasher feast have snubbed the last three films containing the serial killer Myers and gone back to making a sequal to the first film.
Jamie Lee Curtis stars as the original victim of the first two films, still haunted by images of her crazy murderous brother still twenty years later. Dr.Loomis is no longer around, Donald Pleasance having died, and she now has a 17 year old son to look after, and a private school to run.
Things start predictably as two teenagers and a nurse are killed in the opening minutes by the masked knifeman. As most of the school leaves for camping, only Jamie Lee, her new boyfriend schoolteacher and four teens (including her son and his girlfriend 'Jen'from Dawsons Creek) and a guard remain, with Michael Myers prowling around menacingly.

The film delivers its predictable scares and shocks, as people walk out of dark corners and behind others to the accompaniment of a sudden chord of music.
While Curtis gives a goodish performance, deciding to take the fight to Michael, the other teens run around screaming as asual. Myers is an extroudinary character. He moves very slowly, not bothering to run when a victim is lying sprawled on the floor and helpless, and then disappears without trace in the matter of a second other times. He has either had some brilliant plastic surgery or simply he is a zombie, as you just can't hurt. Knifes, poles, axes and whatever's around is continously being plunged into him and he doesn't offer a grimace or grunt (although with that mask on, we can't see his face).
This film is certainly predictable, but can still build up small doses of tension once in a while, and s
ome of the in-jokes are subtle while the dialogue not too disgraceful.
I will not give away the ending, but it will no doubt thrill most viewers, and disapoint a few.
A decent batch of gore and entertainment for those who like it, and a better slasher film than most.

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