Halloween H20 is the film 20 years on from the original. Laurie Strode (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) as she was then has faked her own death, changed her name (to Kerri Tate), face and life in desperation to go into hinding from Michael Myers (her serial killing brother). New characters are John, her 17 year old son (played by Josh Harnett)and her lover/counseller Will (Adam Arkin) Its halloween again and the plot thickens. The first killing as in most horror movies doesn't seem directly linked to the hero/heroine. Two teenagers and an older women were bruatally murdered by a shadowy figure.(Laurie's files were stolen) John and his friends (+ girlfriend) skip the camping trip and stay at school to have thier own private halloween party, inturupted before it began by Michael Myers. Although not aware that the killer is in town Laurie/Kerri is taking Halloween badly, seeing Myers 'face' everywhere and getting shaken up by pety things much to the distress of Will. When Laurie discovers that Myers is back she first saves the children and her lover and locks herself in the school for a one on one to the death match. This is the beginning of a fantastic ending. Myers falls from a window, put into a body bag and laurie takes him in the car. The body bag opens and Myers attacks her the car falls down a hill almost killing them both and the big finale is when trapped under a car Myers reaches out his hand (a sign of brotherly bond) Laurie reaches out her hand and as soon as we thought the scene was to get soppy she unreluctantly decapitates him with an axe. I havn't seen all the halloween films but this film was fantastic, if not a brilliant ending to the Halloween films. Hopefully filmmakers will leave it there rather than killing it. This film I think although reasonably predictable inflicts the emotions of the killing perfectly. Jamie Lee Curtis' acting was brilliant and worthwhile. I will be seeing it again as i went out and bought the video. Go see this film you will not regret it. Ci
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Production Year: 1978 - Horror - Director: John Carpenter - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Donald Pleasence, P. J. Soles, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis
Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Denholm Elliott, Brian Cox, Sian Phillips
Don't worry you're not missing out much on the other Halloweens apart from 1,2 and 4 - this one though I thought was great - would you believe though that a sequel is currently in development - apparently that wasn't Michale in the film that gets decapitated - all for the money I'm sure. DanClegg
Yankee_tam 05.03.2001 15:54
A very good option :)
LostWitness 19.01.2001 08:57
There was certainly nothing ground-breaking about this film, but then if you like this
kind of thing Halloween H20 doesn't disappoint. One of the stronger sequels - but the original
film was still the best.
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Advantages: Original characters, classy, good actors, scary and suspenseful. Disadvantages: Too short, for some reason another voice is used to resemble Donald Pleasance - let's jsut say it doesn't
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