Review of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) by Anthony M — 03 Oct 2011
John: If you want to stay handcuffed to your dead brother, that's fine. But your not dragging me along. Not anymore. .
"Blood is thicker than Water.".
Halloween H2O takes place 20 years after the events that occurred in the first two films. Laurie Strode has left Illinois, changed her name, had a son and is now running a private school in California. It's actually a fairly good sequel considering it is... what, the 7th; I think. It has a pretty good opening with a cool cameo from a very young Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Josh Hartnett makes his film debut, as many actors do, in a slasher. He plays John, the son of Laurie, basically like he will play every role from there on out. .
The movie is basically a balance between the extremely stupid and the pretty cool. Let's start with some of the stupid. LL Cool J as a security guard slash wannabe romantic writer. He's bad, like you'd expect. Then there's Michael, who doesn't look all that menacing and an ending that really was in no way satisfying. I see what they were trying to go for, but I didn't buy it. Then the cool. Janet Leigh makes an appearance in the film as Norma. It's cool to see her acting alongside her daughter in a sequel to a movie that was inspired by a movie she stared in 38 years before this movie. There's also a couple references to Psycho in the dialogue. Johns friend tells him he is going toned up living with his mom forever and running a motel in the middle of nowhere. .
The movie is extremely short which normally isn't a bad quality for a slasher, but with this one I wish it had some more length in the middle. It has a cool start and a decent lead up, but the Michael Myers area felt rushed. They should have added about 10 minutes in there. .
Overall though the movie was a lot better than I expected it to be. I liked that they just went back and followed up after the first two and threw out the last few. It's made by a less than original or talented director in Steve Minor. The guy made a few of the Friday the 13th's, so that should give you some sort of idea about him. So I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't hate this. It's not as good the second film and there's no reason comparing it to the original, but after the last two in the series; this was a pretty good addition.
This review of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) was written by Anthony M on 03 Oct 2011.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later has generally received mixed reviews.
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