Review of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) by Jonny B — 17 Oct 2011

Here's a peculiar one: 'Halloween H20' is imitating 'Scream'. 'Scream' imitated the original 'Halloween'. So what fans get is a mix of a soporific teen drama involving vacuous characters tied to Laurie Strode.

It's as if a script for 'Dawson's Creek' was found and reworked, by the the two people it took to write this magnum opus of 80-minutes, and then conceived as a horror movie in the slasher heat wave left behind from 'Scream' and, figuring the two writers had no chance to sell their shit script, brand it a 'Halloween' movie.

Now the established franchise needs someone to come back, and, look who has a painkiller addiction and needs a cheque - Mrs. Curtis. The last fifteen minutes of this movie, with very few exceptions, is quite entertaining and attempts to bring back the atmosphere of the original but like most 'Scream' influenced slashers it's too WB teen time and there's not enough of a slow creeping dread that's needed, or in 'H20's' case, required.