Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Directed by Steve Miner
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
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"Halloween H20," the twentieth-anniversary sequel, which director Steve Miner deadpans is "the only sequel - what other films?" is a tribute: by executive producer Kevin Williamson, whose "Scream" series was inspired by the first movie; by star Jamie Lee Curtis, who always felt Laurie Strode had never gotten her face-to-face closure with the terror of Haddonfield; and most importantly, by Miramax's Dimension Pictures, which probably would not exist if it were not for "Halloween" breaking ground so many years ago.
Curtis came up with the idea for this seventh film in the series, an homage to the original done in the style of Scream (1996).
With it feeling more akin to the "Scream" series of movies, which is not really a surprise with Kevin Williamson on board as a producer, "Halloween H20" provides plenty of shocks; a few horror in jokes and bucks the trend where not everyone becomes dispensable.
Taking it’s cue from the Scream series, along with a re-write from scribe Kevin Williamson, H20 manages to pay homage and reboot the series at the same time.
"Halloween H20" is yet another sequel that cannot match up to the glories of its precursor and, in fact, is considerably less hair-raising than recent horror films like "Scream," "Scream 2," and even "Mimic."
In this seventh instalment of the Halloween franchise, Friday the 13th veteran Steve Miner and Scream writer Kevin Williamson made their bold decisions by ignoring every event that has occurred over the course of three previous sequels (Halloween 4, 5 and 6).
…it's worth noting that both "Halloween" (with 1998's "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later")…
It’s the Halloween H20 of Scream movies, a heartless cash-grab sequel that brings back a genre legend in something that wants so badly to be Scream that it bleeds itself dry.