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Summary: WOW!
Review: THE most worthy sequel to Halloween. Fresh, innovative, and featuring the return of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). This one has all the suspense, thrills, and chills we loved in the original Halloween. Also features a great cast, who does a wonderful job!Very highly recommended!
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Summary: Michael Comes Home In a Sequel That Works
Review: Too often, producers create a movie that has mass appeal, and so sequels are produced, often compromising quality of material for speed of release. The Halloween franchise, created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, met with this fate. The original Halloween, a stylized slasher film that changed the horror genre forever, became a marketing tool for a series of sequels that attempted to cash in on the first film's success. The storyline was re-tooled again and again, and with each effort, the Halloween series fell apart, becoming more ridiculous with each film that was released. Halloween H20, the seventh sequel in the series, might have met with much the same fate as its predecessors, but that due to a recent resurgance of popularity in the horror genre with movies like "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer", Hollywood focused its attention on creating a sequel that would have the same slick feel as these other films, while remaining true to the Halloween storyline that Carpenter created 20 years before. They succeeded. Halloween H20, with help from veteran screen writer Kevin Williamson (Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer), and starring a young, fresh cast of rising talent; Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor), L.L. Cool J, Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) & Adam Arkin (Chicago Hope) gave the film a fresh look that made it marketable to a new audience of moviegoers. The greatest success of the movie though, was that it re-introduced us to the original heroine of the film, Laurie Strode, by bringing back veteran actress Jamie Lee Curtis to reprise the role that made her famous. The storyline, which largely ignored most of the story developed in sequels 3-6, continued the narrative of Strode, who went into hiding by changing her identity to Keri Tate. Now the headmaster of a private school in California, a mother to John Tate (Hartnett) and a functioning alcoholic, Laurie struggles to overcome the experiences that changed her life when Michael Myers came after her in Haddonfield 20 years earlier. Her paranoia often gets the better of her, and she sees Michael everywhere-in her mirror, out her window, in her dreams. When John asks permission to go on a school field trip during the weekend of Halloween, Strode is unwilling to let him go. Frustrated and angered, John confronts her, insisting that her paranoia is inhibiting his growth. Strode insists that she is only being cautious, but John lashes out, leaving in anger. Later he learns that his girlfriend and other close friends are going to remain behind as well, and so they instead decide to have a small party of their own on campus. But Michael is coming. Having learned of Laurie's whereabouts after breaking into the home of Marion Whittington, (Nancy Stephens (who was featured in the original Halloween films)), Dr. Loomis's nurse, and stealing the file on Laurie Strode, he heads out to where she has been hiding for the past 20 years. The movie works because it is fresh, hip, and fast-paced. It doesn't meander with long, drawn out, dis-jointed murder scenes like some of the earlier films, but instead deals with the characters, providing a level of depth and understanding that makes the audience sympathetic to their plight. Of course, the audience of these films are clamoring for Michael Myers, and they won't be disappointed. Though the body count in this film is far less than its predecessors, the murder sequences are intenese and genuinely frightening. H20 really delivers the goods and is a satisfying continuation of the story that Carpenter created with the original Halloween. Featuring a cameo by Janet Leigh, Curtis's mother and star of the original "Psycho", this movie is fun, clever with its tongue-in-cheek dialogue between Curtis and Leigh, and down-right frightening, giving audiences a return to Halloween that might keep the franchise alive another 20 years.
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Summary: A new beginning.
Review: "Halloween H20" takes an unusual direction; it goes on the idea that "Halloween" 3 - 6 never happened, and for the most part it worked. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is now the head school mistress at a private school in northern California. She is still haunted by the memories of Halloween night twenty years ago. But now her obsession with her brother is starting to take it's toll on her son (Josh Harnett). But Michael Myers shows up as most of the school goes on a field trip. Now with only a few faculty and some kids who snuck away from the trip, Myers starts slashing his way closer to his sister. This movie was much better than most of the previous outings, mostly because it was directed by horror vet Steve Miner (who made the best "Friday the 13th" sequal, Part 2). Also the suspense was there and some pretty heavy atmosphere. You really felt that there were all alone in the school compond. This movie still isn't perfect. It is still in the "Scream" frame of mind with it's nods to other classic horror movies (the "Psycho" one was pretty good). And hiring a hip, hot young cast simply because they are pretty people was a bad idea. Also casting L.L. Cool J to appeal to a much wider demographic was too obvious. Though he dosn't do a bad job all in all, it's just that all most any one could have been the security guard. The biggest suprise is Jamier Lee Curtis returning to the role that launched her career. No one ever thought she wound do any more horror. But she came back as a battle scared surviver, and she is strong and resourseful and now actually taking the fight to Myers. Her charactor has now come full circle, and hopefully can lay her demons to rest. Over all though, I really liked it, and revitialized a series that was just limping along.
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Summary: 2nd best in the series!
Review: Besides from the origional, this is the best addition of the Halloween series! It is along the lines of WES CRAVENS NEW NIGHTMARE. Jamie Lee Curtis did an amazing job in this movie. Laurie has a family now and teahces at a prep school, and Michael finds her. As claas trip over the weekend leaves 4 kids alone in the dorms ( Lauries Son included ), so there aren't a lot of deaths, but the ones that do occure are done brillantly. After her sons life is threatened, Lauries decides to face her fears and fights her brother. My favorite scene in this movie is when Laurie is in the lunch room and is under the tables and Micheal is on top of them looking for her, then he starts to up turn them. anyways-Laurie takes the ambulance that Michael is in and drives him to where ( it's not made clear where ) and he gets out of the body bag and runs her off the road and they are both flung from the van and michaelis pinned against a tree and the van and Laurie takes an ax and.... This is the best fo the series except for the origional, and I even beg to differ with that! Some say this movie is boring. All I can say is, it has class, and most horro movies with class don't go over well. If you grew up with the origional, this will definitaly please you! It's one of the best horror movies around!
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Summary: 4-6 are conclude well4 anyway
Review: this movies bad but in the begining you see pitchers on loomis wall one has the bloody scisors trhat jamie stabed her stepmother with laurie far from hadon field they never found his body the escape halloween 4 miuchal would have gone to find laurie put the docter said a niece lived in hadonfdield plus he might of thought laurie was dead after killing jamie hew goes after laurie after heescaped in pt.6 actually theres just evidence that parts 4-5 happened theres no evidence of p.6 hope that helps
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Summary: Great Sequell
Review: The Halloween series, about the deranged psycho killer Michael Myers . It is an absolute favorite among modern day horror flicks. When the film Halloween H2O(Twenty Years Later) first came out it got some bad vibes of reviews but I thought it was great. I liked seeing what happened to Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis).
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Summary: FINALLY A GOOD SEQUEL TO LIVE UP TO THE 1ST!!!
Review: Story: Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a teacher in hiding at a private school for teens. Halloween is just around the corner and so is MICHAEL!!! Very Suspenseful!!! This is one of the best in the series!!! Directed By Steve Miner who Directed Friday the 13th pt 2 & 3!
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Summary: REALLY GOOD!
Review: This movie, at first, I felt was just a way of trying to make money off the "Michael Myers" franchise. But, watching the movie, i realized that they really put a lot of effort into it. The movie doesn't have your average "slasher moments."...surprisingly, no one has sex, which if you look back to slasher films today, people still are having sex, and obviously dying. Jamie Lee Curtis did an amazing job, and the teenage cast, did a surprisngly good job. The plot was good, the story line was good, and you'll really end up enjoying this film, even if you aren't a fan of the other "Holloween" trilogies...enjoy!
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Summary: H20: 20 years later...Halloween still has it!
Review: H20 is the best of the halloween sequels to date. it has chills, thrills & laughs without losing the spirit of the Halloween films. I recomend this movie to fans not only of the "halloween" films but of horror in general.
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Summary: Halloween H20
Review: Okay I am a big fan of the Halloween films, and I will have to give you a little history of the Halloween films, before I will give you my input on H20. Okay the first Halloween was a classic, when we are introdcued to the boogeyman Michael Myers who escapes from a mental instution and goes on a killing spree in Haddonfield and almost tries to kill his sister Lauire Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). The second film, Halloween II is a contuation of the first. We see that Michael Myers was not killed in the first film and tracks Laurie Strode all the way to the hospital where he tries to ensue his finally move. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) tries to warn everyone about how evil he is. Michael Myers is burned. Okay lets skip ahead a year or two later, and for some stupid reason we have Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, which has nothing to do with Michael Myers. Now lets go even further to the late 80's where the next real Halloween film is released, HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERs. Kind of a soggy campy film with no taste and can't live up to the orignial. Michael Myers apparently has been in acoma for 10 years since his crispy escapid in II. He awakens on a killing spree of teens looking for his seven year old niece - Jamie Llyod. Of course, Dr. Loomis returns to Haddonfield after a 10 year absence to find Michael Myers once again. The film ends with a fiery show down and Michael is buried. But his niece is haunted by the unspeakable evil her uncle has, and stabs her Mom with a pair of siccors. Okay lets skip one year later, to Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. This is even more dumb then 4. Jamie Llyod is placed in Haddonfield's Children's Hopsital, after attacking her mother with a pair of siccors. Jamie is being treated by Dr. Loomis along with her foster sister Rachel and her friend Tina, until Michael Myers come back once again, after a year in acoma after 4. Dr. Loomis decides the only way to end all of this is to lure Michael to the Myers house with Jamie. But a man in black has arrived in town with a startling connection to Michael. Lets skip ahead 7 years later, with the scariest Halloween film of all - Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. It's now six years since the last Halloween celebration in Haddonfield. Michael Myers, his niece Jamie, and the mysterious Man in Black all disappeared after the explosive end of Part 5. Everyone assumes them all to be dead...but actually, Jamie has been captured by the Man In Black, who has her impregnated her. A now grown up Jamie delievers the baby on Halloween eve. But Michael is back, and is looking for her and her baby. Jamie dies, and a hunt goes on to protect the baby with the help of Dr. Loomis. The Man in Black is a good old friend to Dr. Loomis who holds a cult of unspeakable evil that Myers can't escape. Okay let's skip two more years later, where we finally have Halloween 7, offically titled Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. We are introduced back to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curits) who teaches at a private school, and stays safetly seculded, under the name of Keri Tate. Just as she is getting back to her old self, Michael once again reappears in her life wanting to finish off what he did in the beginning. Michael at first ransacks Dr. Loomis office in Haddonfield which he has passed away between the Curse of Michael Myers and H20. (And in real life, RIP Donald Pleasence) The film ends as Michael butchers a bunch of teens leaving a conclusion that Laruie chops his head off and finally puts her past away - FOR THE MOMENT. Halloween H20 was probably the best Halloween sequel with the best story, but it's not the scariest. Miramax should have ended the sereis with H20 and the franchise wouldn't have spoiled. Instead they made the stupid, Halloween 8: Resurrection. Which is really dumb. Supposidly, that wasn't Michael who she killed in H20. Of course Laurie finally kills herself before Michael can get to her and a bunch of people are murdered in a Halloween party. Then Miramax is planning a Halloween 9. The Plot: MICHAEL IS GOING WITH A SHOWDOWN WITH PINHEAD, how stupid. H20 was good and they should have left it with that.
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