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Summary: A FILM THAT DID JUSTICE FOR THE FILM SERIES
Review: When I heard things about this film, I was thinking of water because of "H20" or a title of a Hall & Oates album. I just thought a Halloween 7 would be just as lame as the previous four sequels. Not knowing what to expect, I was DEAD wrong.This film marks the landmark return of Jamie Lee Curtis (who hates horror movies), then newcomer Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams (Dawsons Creek), Nancy Stephens (who was in Halloween 1 & 2), hip-hopper LL Cool J and a special appearance by Janet Leigh - Jamie Lee's, the scream queen's mother !!! This film originally was to be written and directed by John Carpenter who declined due to other film commitments is written by Kevin Williamson (Scream) and directed by Steve Miner who what ?? directed Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3 !! The film score is by a newcomer John Ottman with influental original music by John Carpenter. This film, which totally disregards Halloween 3, 4, 5 & 6, which I thought was a smart move by the writer takes place 20 years after Halloween 1 & 2. Our masked friend Mikey Myers stops off at Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) house then tracks down his sister Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) - a woman named Keri Tate who now has a 17 year old son, John (Josh Hartnett) and is the Head Dean of a private school in Northern California. She has been in hiding and on the run from her killer brother for the past twenty years. Laurie Strode is a force to be reckoned in this film. My favourite moments are (1) when Norma (Janet Leigh) drives away in her car, which happens to be the same car she driven in the classic Psycho (bonus) and the very end and I think most know what I am talking about. I thought this film did justice for the series because it disregarded all the crappy past sequels, it concentrated on Jamie Lee and Micheal and that Micheal gets it with one clean shot ... which leave it to another bunch of writers would lead to HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION, which I will review when the DVD is released. This film is presented in widescreen (2.35:1) version with Digital 5.1 Surround which is fine for the film. There was a misprint of "Special Feautures" as no commentary was included. A Trivia Game was included and a Creed music video and I think that is about it. I highly recommend this film to all who are Halloween fans, accompanied with Halloween 1 & 2, which I do have in my DVD collection. Get our copy today !!!
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Summary: Finally, A Worthy Sequel Thats All Treat
Review: It took almost 20 years for Jamie Lee Curtis to return to the role that made her famous, but it was worth the wait. "Halloween: H20" is a great suspense film but doesn't have the psyhcological grip that the original has. For Laurie Strode, life has been a rough road since 10/31/78. The head mistress of a private school in California and the mother of a teenage son, Laurie drinks her life away as a closet alcoholic trying to forget that awful Halloween night of long ago. She better get a grip though, because the past is about to rear its ugly head in the form of Michael Myers, who wants to meet his nephew, and get a little payback. Steve Miner, who directed and created the "Friday the 13th" films, directs "H20" after John Carpenter declined (he once said "How can you make a sequel to a film that doesn't need one?"). The cast is great and is one of the best slasher casts I've seen since "Scream" (especially, Janet Leigh who stars as Curtis' secretary in the film, complete with the style car she drove in "Psycho"). Josh Hartnett makes his film debut here as Michael's nephew and Michelle Williams plays his girlfriend.
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Summary: Man, this was bad.
Review: What was that guy in the commercial for this film thinking when he said "Finally a sequel, that lives up to the origanal". Dude, Michael Myers is a COMPLETE Jason rip off. Everything you saw Jason do Michael Myers did in this. Michael is no longer a stange creater that is a part of the shadows like he was in the first film. Even if your a Jason fan you'll hate this movie. The next one is much better. Okay, the so called story is Larie( Jamie Lee Curts) FAKED her death in a car crash that was in Halloween 4. She then moved to Californea. But Michael Myers gets a profile and goes to Californea in one day! O yeah, if you want to see this film because Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, let warn you that her charator is COMPLTELY diffrent then her charactor in Halloween 1-2. Anyway, after about an hour of nothing happing, michael Finally kills someone. From that point on they steal most of the seancens frome the fourth film. Jmaie Lee Curtis's fight with Michael was really dull. But the worst part was after the fight, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers hold hands and cry togther!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!!! Skip this film.
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Summary: Good effort
Review: For being a 7th movie in a horror series, I expected this movie to plain awful, even with Jamie Lee Curtis in it. I was pleasantly surprised. Halloween H20 was much more than just another movie about kids getting together performing several naughty acts and paying the price for it. There was actually some plot to it with excellent character development (Curtis & Hartnett), and a fair amount of suspense. Unfortunately, it's impossible to live up the first Halloween. H20, while a good effort, falls a bit short of the original Halloween in the thrills & chills department. It just isn't as effective. But I think the movie is still worth it's weight, and is arguably the 2nd best in the series.
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Summary: Jamie Lee Curtis is better than ever.
Review: "Halloween: H20" may not be the scariest of the "Halloween" movies, but it is the most action-packed. This movie never stops, from start to finish. The film opens with a great introduction that showcases the reappearence of Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers, giving the film the kind of historical touch that was necessary for it to work. As the opening credits roll, we sit in awe as the camera scrolls over twenty years of history and mixes with John Ottman's musical score to promote a genuine eerieness. From there, we are transported to Summer Glen, California, where we find Laurie Strode--now Keri Tate--having a nightmare that wakes her son, John. As the movie moves quickly and flawlessly along, not only are we kept in suspense about when Michael and Laurie will meet, but we are kept interested in the psychological profile of Laurie Strode that slowly unfolds throughout the film, showing us exactly how the grim events of twenty years ago effected her. As the hours of October 31st pass, we are kept entertained by John's friends, and my favorite supporting character, Ronny, the security guy, played by LL Cool J, who is attempting to be a romance writer and reads his books to his wife over the phone. The film's funniest moments belong to LL Cool J. The action of the film starts when a strange van is parked out in front of the Hillcrest Prep School gates. With the majority of the students gone camping at Yosemite, the school is virtually empty. The hallways are dark, and it sets the scene perfectly. The film is gripping all the way up to its fantastic ending. Jamie Lee Curtis is back in form with her performance in this film. She impressed me very much. I began to finally accept her as an actress and not as the kind of sexpot portrayal that movies like "True Lies" brought out of her. This film may not be the scariest film ever made, but as an all-around effort in filmmaking, is does John Carpenter proud
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Summary: A Worthly Late Sequel
Review: I have this movie and I watch ir sometimes when I go to bed and everytime I never get tired of it.What a Halloween sequel, Jamie Lee Curtis saved this movie, I mean if this movie didnt have Jamie Lee Curtis the movie was probably not gonna has good has it is, I mean it could of been good like the other sequels but jamie lee curtis tops it.
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Summary: As Any True Halloween Fan Will Tell You...
Review: Alright, I think that if you're reading this, chances are you recognize that the Halloween movies are now a staple of modern horror flicks. But let's be realistic-it's all about the money, and as sequel after sequel has proven, Michael Myers can certainly rake it in. This 7th installment is in my mind the third and final chapter in the story of Laurie Strode, who comes to realize her evil brother Michael is out to kill her, at any cost. The movie's soundtrack was lacking in the originality department(I suggest John Ottman's original score for the movie, entitled "Portrait of Terror") and it was definitely too short. However, it cleanly deals with the truth of Haloween: When the evil comes to find you, you must face your fate. 3,4,5,6,and the forthcoming 8 may be good movies, and any true Halloween efficionado should own them (except for 3-what the heck was with "The Season of the Witch" anyway? ). But "Halloween", "Halloween 2" and "H20:Twenty years later" are the true embodiment of what terrified us all one Halloween night, all those years ago.
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Summary: Just let go.
Review: Firstly, for all of you who keep referencing all of the halloween sequels to the first, please stop. As we all know, there will never be another halloween as good as the first(as long as they keep making them), so please don't be dissapointed when the sequels aren't as good as the original. Ok, now with that said, i believe this is one of the better sequels (notice i didn't compare it to the first) in the halloween series. In this one, the actor who plays Michael(the shape), seems to have studied Michaels moves and bodily expressions from previous films and, in my opinion, improved on them. This actor was by far my favorite to have played Michael. It was somewhat a standalone movie from the previous sequels that really held it's own. I thought the acting was very good(even for the not so well known actors/actresses) and of course Jaime Lee always does a great job. The only complaint i have is that no one (the director or the writers) made any mention of Laurie's other child(the one from sequels 4,5,&6) but, maybe for good reason. I liked halloween 4,5,&6 but, this one put the series back in the spotlight as far as i'm concerned. We have finally had a horror icon(Freddy) vs. horror icon(Jason) but, now let's have a horror legend(Michael) vs. horror icon(Jason). Just thought i would add that for all of you horror fans out there who would like to see that one. Well anyway, i would definitely recommend this one to any halloween fan. So go ahead and get your copy today before Michael gets to you first.
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Summary: Got water? Where's the water?
Review: Surprise! Laurie Strode is not only still alive and kicking, but she's got a 17-year old boy and a fancy job as the headmistress of a Californian private school. And she's dating a shrink, who reminds me a little of George Clooney. Everything's going great... except she keeps having nightmares, her son seriously resents her, and her unstoppable psychopathic serial killer brother is not dead. And he wants her to have a VERY scary Halloween. The word-de-jour for this tawdry little sequel is- predictable. All things considered, this series has pretty much been anything but up to this point. The victims are easy to spot, the set-ups are mechanical and routine, the tone of the film is cynical. And what do you know? This was produced by the same studio who turned in SCREAM... Go figure! Typical teen cast includes that long-haired boy from Third Rock From the Sun, that curly-haired blonde chick from Dawson's Creek, and that little boy from Jumanji. No, not the brother of Kirsten Dunst, the one that actually picked up the game. LL Cool J plays a security guard, who's an aspiring novel writer, who shouldn't quit his day job. And is it any surprise, to anyone, that he pulls through in the end? And what's with this supremely lame trend of having characters we thought had been killed earlier in the film not actually being dead, only having had some petty 'minor' injury? It's infuriating! As it happens, teen horror-thrillers are over-populated with dumb characters. Why should they be spared for the sake of the audience? Like I was saying before, this is little more than a completely predictable affair. The music is supposed to be ominous, but instead it's too obvious. The script seems to call for more inventive deaths, but instead it's just a show. Just an over-elaborate set-up for an unconvincing kill. The boy who has to put his hand in a garbage disposal to fetch a corkscrew, the girl who finds herself able to pull her severed leg out from under the same amount of weight that severed it in the first place, a really pathetic throat-slitting. And dig this plot! Laurie Strode is feeling traumatized because she's loosing her son to teen rebeliousness and her boyfriend is smothering her, son John is feeling traumatized because his mother's too over-protective and because she doesn't trust him to be a normal teen, Michael Myers is feeling traumatized because nobody understands him and that knife he always has to carry around is just SO darn heavy... A lot of pissing and moaning, it's worse than Dawson's Creek- trust me! So, what's good about H20? Is there any reason why you should see it? Yes, because it has a great surprise ending- which I used to think was that there wouldn't be any more Halloween sequels... OOPS! Well, at least I could sleep at night knowing that Jamie Lee wasn't going to be suckered into doing any more... OOPS! How the hell is Michael supposed to get his head back on? At least one can take solice in the fact that this sequel is a lot better than Halloween's 2, 5, & 6. At least the actors do a semi-decent job, collectively. At least the viewer isn't accosted by an onslaught of bad pop-rock numbers. At least we get appearences by the real actress who played the nurse in the original Halloween, and the famous shower-scene victim from Psycho. So what if there are shameful references to Casey Becker from Scream and the Cheney family of veteran horror villain-actors? And the absolute worst nightmare sequence I have EVER seen in a horror movie? At least we get that legendary movie still where a horrified Jamie Lee Curtis stares "evil" right in the face...
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Summary: Man, this was bad.
Review: What was that guy in the commercial for this film thinking when he said "Finally a sequel, that lives up to the origanal". Dude, Michael Myers is a COMPLETE Jason rip off. Everything you saw Jason do Michael Myers did in this. Michael is no longer a stange creater that is a part of the shadows like he was in the first film. Even if your a Jason fan you'll hate this movie. The next one is much better. Okay, the so called story is Larie( Jamie Lee Curts) FAKED her death in a car crash that was in Halloween 4. She then moved to Californea. But Michael Myers gets a profile and goes to Californea in one day! O yeah, if you want to see this film because Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, let warn you that her charator is COMPLTELY diffrent then her charactor in Halloween 1-2. Anyway, after about an hour of nothing happing, michael Finally kills someone. From that point on they steal most of the seancens frome the fourth film. Jmaie Lee Curtis's fight with Michael was really dull. But the worst part was after the fight, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers hold hands and cry togther!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!!! Skip this film.
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