Halloween: H20

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Summary: 20 Years Later: ENTER LAURIE STRODE
Review: It was great to see Jaime Lee Curtis back in full force again. Michael Myers is back with 2 things on his mind, killing his sister Laurie and killing everyone that gets in his path. Laurie has many flashbacks of her brother in the beginning of the film until, she is face to face with him in a window of a door. Josh Hartnett plays Laurie's son John and does a pretty good job as a newcomer to the big screen. This movie I thought was a very good one and tries to stick with the original formula of the first one. However, very inferior to the one that started it all. IMO, absolutely no horror movie will ever surpass Halloween, period! If you are new to the Halloween series I would STRONGLY suggest watching the first and second ones before this. If you are a fan of the series it's a no brainer, if you are like me, you've owned this movie for some time now.

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Summary: Overall not too good!
Review: What a delight it was to see Jamie Lee Curtis back in this role! The movie, however, was not so good. Hopefully Jamie will continue to make more horror movies in the future. This one was a slight disappointment.

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Summary: actually pretty good...
Review: I think this was one of the best Halloween movies. Jamie Lee Curtis runs rampid....not in the hospital, but all around! it wasnt really scary, but it was funny and good.If you love Jamie Lee, then dont see Halloween Reserection... its really bad since JLC dies in the first 5 minutes....

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Summary: THE REVENGE OF LAURIE STRODE
Review: This belated sequel to the original "Halloween" (and to "Halloween 2") ignores the other four sequels as if they never were (only if that could be true) but intelligently doesn't go right out and say they never existed (or that the character of the little girl Jamie, etc. didn't).

Jamie Lee Curtis is excellent in her return as Laurie Strode, and the turning-point in the movie when she decides to fight Myers rather than running, really is excellent. As is the ending, where Michael Myers's tendancy to return to life is played out to great effect.

Featuring an excellent tongue-in-mouth scene featuring Janet Leigh (Jamie's mother and star of the INFAMOUS shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho") and her car!!

Perhaps the major problem with this movie is that it's a little too short for its own good, and the body count is rather low, despite the possibilities created by the three-deaths-before-the-opening-credits-roll opening scene. In spite of this, this is a refreshing slasher sequel.

And forget questions like, Why did he wait 20 years to comer after her? After all, as Curtis points out, in the original he waited 15 years! These questions after all are pointless. This movie is not to be viewed as a serious drama! If you think that, you better get the remote handy and switch it off or you're in for a shock!


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Summary: Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Stephens return to HALLOWEEN.
Review: After a five more sequels, the "Halloween" film, series gets back on track and brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as "Laurie Strode". It has been 17 years since we last saw Miss Curtis as "Laurie" and it is the 20th Anniversary since the first film premiered.
(Halloween H2O: H = Halloween 20 = 20th Anniversary)
Lauire is now a Head Mistress at the Hillcrest School and she has a 17 year old son (Josh Hartnett, his film debut) who also goes to the same school in Summer Glen, California. Laurie is stable, but she still suffers with nightmares of the tragic night of October 31, 1978 when her brother, Michael, tried to kill her. Laurie now goes by the name of "Keri Tate". She is in hidding from her brother, stalker, voyuer, murderer Michael. This happened when she was 17 years old and now her son is 17. She fears for her sons life. Michael is just about to find Laurie again and make her Halloween night a living hell again.
Can Laurie outwit Michael this time?
Jamie Lee Curtis has two scenes with her real mother, Janet Leigh, best known for PSYCHO (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Janet Leigh passed away October 3, 2004.
That is Nancy Stephens who returns as "Marion" at the start of the film. You may remember her from Halloween (1978) and Halloween II (1981).
***Thank you Jamie Lee Curtis for returning to your original role for this film and it was really great to see Nancy Stephens again who I think was super in starting this film off right.***
Also in the cast: Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Branden Williams, Beau Billingslea, Matt Winston, Larisa Miller, Emmalee Thompson, David Blanchard, John Cassini, Judy Wood, Lisa Gay Hamilton, and Chris Durand as "Michael".
Jamie Lee Curtis returned for the next film HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION (2002) to start it off and making an end to the "Laurie Stroud" character, but not the end of the "Halloween" film series.
Halloween 9 will be released October 31, 2005.