Review of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) by Gabriel F — 01 Nov 2018

Halloween H20 is a vast improvement on the series. It retconned the events of the previous three films, and picks up twenty years after Halloween II. It's like a fresh restart, and the quality improved tremendously.

I can't explain what it is about entries 4-6. They have this indiscernible quality about them that makes them feel lacking in quality. They felt rushed, poorly made, and just kind of ugly to look at.

But not this one. This one is good, and restores my faith in the series. Well, I mean it did. Jamie Lee Curtis is back, and she beats the absolute hell out of Michael Myers, and officially offs him. It's an ass whooping for the ages.

I didn't quite like their treatment of Michael Myers. He didn't feel as scary, his mask was bad as always (I say as always as it's now a trend to make the worst mask possible for the character), and he's a puny dweeb who gets ass whupped by his little sister.

He's still better than the version if him in Curse, but he doesn't quite fully redeem himself either. The movie also tries way too hard to be hip and "in." It's like it wanted to be Scream, a superior slasher flick that revitalized the horror genre two years before H20 came out.

But Halloween came first, so it should have stayed true to its source material. All in all, not a bad sequel. It almost lives up to the first sequel, and should have ended there. It is effective closure.