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Summary: Finally.
Review: It's been twenty years since Michael Myers went on a bloody rampage while stalking his sister, Laurie Strode. Laurie faked her death in a car accident and has been living as Keri Tate, a headmistress at a posh prep school in northern California. She has a son who just turned seventeen a few months ago, the same age Laurie was when Michael came home. Something wicked this way comes.HALLOWEEN H20 was the perfect movie to end the HALLOWEEN franchise. If fits as the final installment of a trilogy with HALLOWEEN and HALLOWEEN 2. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie and she brings just the right amount of soul-weary, grim determination to the role. In the end Laurie refuses to live as a victim and takes things into her own hands by going into battle with Michael. In the end, she is redeemed and goodness is restored. That's how it should end. Unfortunately, there's another HALLOWEEN film coming. Why don't they ever learn.
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Summary: Tight little horror movie, but...
Review: Where in the name of Haddonfield is my damn director/Jamie Lee Curtis commentary?? Apparently I'm oblivious, because in reading another review I just discovered that the ' Bonus Commentary ' advertised on the back cover of my DVD is nonexistent! I just sat down a few minutes ago to watch this movie again ( which I purchased used almost a year ago ), this time with the running commentary, and damned if I couldn't locate it. There is a mistake on the older DVD's apparently that advertises a commentary track that doesn't exist. Shame on you, Dimension Films! Oh well, guess I shouldn't believe everything I read. As for the movie itself..not bad. If you are new to the Halloween franchise, let me recommend that you watch a triple feature, Halloween, Halloween 2 ( takes place the same nite..like one long movie ) and Halloween H2O, which takes place 20 years after that nite.Halloween 3-6 really have nothing to do with the ' trilogy ' , and in the case of #3, have absolutely NOTHING to do with the Michael Myers story. Avoid #6 at all costs..it's an absolutely abysmal movie, which brings up the subject of the new #8 film starring Busta Rhymes that has yet to be released, which has all the writings of a quick-cash travesty on it, but I digress. Halloween H20 is a short film, under 90 minutes, and upon first viewing, it felt TOO short..but now I think it's just right. Michael Myers is back to finish off his sister, but she has something else in mind. Jamie Lee Curtis delivers an excellent performance in this movie, her best in my opinion. Critics may dismiss her performance, because let's face it, this is the seventh Halloween movie, we aren't talking about Citizen Kane here. I urge you to watch this movie once for the fun of it, and then again for her performance..Curtis is in such command of her performance, shows such strength, that it all but screams " This franchise is nothing without me, I OWN this movie ". Great work by her, which will be tarnished somewhat by the next movie, in which rumor has it, she is killed off early on. What a shame, because they could have ended the story with H20. This is not Star Wars here, but in the realm of horror, Halloween is legendary, and it felt right to end it after the last movie. Oh well, money rules the world. So anyways, if you haven't seen this movie yet, don't watch it without seeing the first 2 in the series, because it will mean much more to you than if you saw it on it's own. Still not happy about that missing commentary track though..I would love to hear what Curtis has to say about the movie and her performance.
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Summary: What an ending
Review: This movie was a bog standard 3star film which wasn't scary at all but was generally sound. However when the writer came to write the ending he must have been off his head, as where the people who accepted it. I mean from what i can recall the retarded looking Meyers was stabbed with a kitchen knife, thrown out of closed first floor window, hit with a flag pole, shot, smashed through a car window, run over (by a GMC), thrown down a cliff, crushed by the GMC and yet he was able to reach out to Curtis to grab her hand at the end. (i'm probably missing out some stuff because i was in disbelief). I was expecting him to get up and pick up his chopped off head at the end! I know the film is fictional etc.. but this really takes the ... and completly spoils the movie. The reason i'm giving it 2 stars instead of one is becasue of the really good soundtrack which makes the movie so much more watchable and creates suspense.
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Summary: Lazy and sloppy
Review: Myer's should have hit the makeup artist first. Everyone looks embalmed.
My mate Nigel 'spunky' Turner was banned from watching this with me due to his tendency to do a one legged chicken dance at the sight of blood. I have no furniture or crockery left, just a pile of DVD's of which there is soon to be one less. Too many faults to mention - embarrassingly arch soundtrack comprising nods to the original, Psycho, Re-animator and Wagner. Over-lit. Fast when it should be slow - so I won't.
LL Cool J leads a charmed life. Had his torso nearly chewed in two with massive blood loss in 'Deep Blue Sea', but remained alive and perky. Here he has nearly half his head blown off, loses pints of blood and next he's up and about tap dancing. His extraordinary Lazarus like tendencies in films must be an 'audience demographics' thing. Ours is not to reason why, ours is just be white and die.
Now the mask. It was burned and now it's back. As I recall, it was stolen from a store, so how did he manage to find another after twenty years? Do you know what, I think he must have used *A CERTAIN WELL KNOWN INTERNET AUCTION HOUSE*. Does Micheal Myers have a credit card? Yes, Mr Myers, of course you can have a credit card, just put Mrs Smeddly down, she suffers from vertigo. It can't possibly be the same sort of mask because you can't hear his heavy breathing. Kills the film stone dead and makes him lack presence. He wuz robbed. So wuz we. Curtis is game and there's an ending worthy of the original but it's too little, too late.
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Summary: This was the scarriest movie I ever saw
Review: I really liked this movie, even though I don't watch that many horror films. I love them, but I just...don't watch that many of them. Anyway, this was a really short movie, but it was very suspenseful, and even though I watched with a friend, I still got scared. I love Josh Hartnett and he was really good in this movie. It was his first film, for those of you who didn't know, and, well, now do. Ok, well, anyway, this is a good movie for sleep-overs and stuff.
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Summary: NOT the real Michael Myers !
Review: This was expected to be the final-chapter in the "Halloween" series ! WRONG ! Michael Myers in this movie was not the true masked-murderer . According to some rumors, the killer was only a decoy probably sent out to take Myers' place . I could tell that it was an imposter because of the height and the mask design(it looked nothing like the others). However, I don't know who the Michael Myers impersonator really is . Could be anybody ! All should be revealed in the all-new ''Halloween: the Homecoming" get ready cause its coming soon .
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Summary: finally a sequel that leaves up to the original ! ! ! !
Review: This movie is the best sequel of HALLOWEEN,has a great story but forgets a little the previous ones,is super cool that the new generations enjoy an anniversary like this movie,what was made before some of us be born,this is one of my favorite movies The DVD has a very clear image but the only problem is the widescreen Letterbox aspect,we need a widescreen anamorphic edition to enjoy more this great movie,the audio Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround is excellent the sounds are separated excellently. The previous edition of this DVD indicate in the packing an audio comentary that is not including but in the recent edition this mistake doesn't appears. I think that there's a special edition with DTS,but I'm not so sure if this is true.
All i can say is: Jamie Lee Curtis makes a triumphal return!!!.
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Summary: An action-packed Horror Thriller.
Review: 20 Years Later:Micheal Myers discover that his Sister (Jamie Lee Curtis) is still alive and living in California with her Son (Josh Hartnett) and he goes to Kill Them, once and for all. This is a well made Sequel, this was the supposedly last in the Series. LL Cool J is wasted as a Security Officer. Story written by Kevin Willamson (Scream 1 & 2, The Faculty, Teaching Miss Tingle) but unbilled for the Story. Screenplay is Written by Williamson (Also unbilled), Robert Zappia and Matt Greenberg. Directed by Steve Miner (Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3, House, Forever Young-also Co-Star:Jamie Lee Curtis) shows some of the Style of John Carpenter but not close enough. Carpenter was the original Director of H20 but he didn`t want to do it, Because he was filming Vampires (One of his best films). There`s a Great Cameo by Janet Leigh (Pyscho) and it`s also has a Joke in the end of the Cameo, the one, who will get it. DVD`s has an non-anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) trasnfer and a strong Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD Extras are:A behind the scenes featurette, travia games, music video and trailer. Super 35. Grade:B+.
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Summary: michael's back
Review: michael's back in this latest installment. i found this dvd to be very close to the first halloween. very good acting and storyline. my only complaint with this movie is the fact that it completly leaves out the story of halloween 4 - 5 & 6. it picks up after part 2 and makes no metion of the rest of the halloween movies!!! part 8 will no doubt do the very same thing which is due out in march 2002. the truth is this series died after
part 5. buy this one only if you are a die-hard halloween fan!!!
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Summary: a great sequal
Review: Finally, a sequel I can fully enjoy.The classic Michael Myers is finally back.It's a big relief from Halloween 6.Personally, I think the idea that Michael Myers was being ordered to kill by an ancient evil cult is very stupid.This movie has the same feeling as the first two.It is also not pure carnage wich makes it more interesting than sequels 4-6. The beginning where we hear Dr.lommis' voice speaking the lecture from the first film is excellent. The one flaw that I think was so so so so important was we barely ever hear the original theme song wich is very suprising and depriving.It should also have been a tad longer too.However, this detered me little. The fact it brought back
Lauri Strode is great. The scenes where they brought us back to the first film like the closet scene in the beginng were also great.I also liked the fact that Curtis has a naive son who does not fully understand Michael's horror or invincibilty, it is great. Now the next generation can experiance Michael's terror. The ending is ingenious, but if you haven't seen the film I won't spoil it for you. It definitely lives up to the original in thrills,chills, and sheer delight. This is a miraculous sequel and it really lives up to the original Halloween legacy.I would reccommend it to all fans.
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