Halloween H20: 20 years later is a 1998 horror thriller released by Dimension Films. Its stars include Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode/Keri Tate, Adam Arkin as will Brennan, Michelle Williams as Molly, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Sarah and Josh Hartnett as John Tate. The authors are John Carpenter (The fog), Debra Hill (Halloween), Robert Zappia (tv home improvement) and Matt Greenberg (reign of fire). The Director is Steve Miner (Friday the 13th part 2 and part III).
This story is a direct continuation of the events of Halloween II, ignores the last three Michael Myers film. He comes to Marion Chambers Witting tonnes House, nurse of his late stretch film Dr. Sam Loomis, to search for a file. The killer finds Laurie Strode's, his younger sister and trøde to have been killed in a car accident. He discovers that she is now living in summer Glen, California under the name Keri Tate. "Keri Tate" is the main mistress to Hillcrest Academy. After killing Marion and two neighbouring boys, Michael steals a car and drive to California to find his sister. Meanwhile in California, has Laurie Strode is struggling to put the events of 20 years ago behind her. She is still haunted and attempts to drown out his memories with alcohol, much to the chagrin of his son John. Her older brother has now reached the school and, after nightfall, sneak in through the front gate. He is now back to kill the sister he could kill 20 years earlier.
A highlight of this last Halloween series is the appearance of Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtiss real life mother and star of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. There is a line in the movie, I find quite ironic, if not downright deliberate. It is when Jamie Lee and Janet meet in the parking lot. Norma (Janet) announcing that "Ms. Tate" (Jamie Lee) is quite turbulent, especially around Halloween. After she accidentally startles her, asking her if she a moment can be maternal. It is a little too obvious. But what viewers can't say is that the car that Norma get into is the same car, which she ran in Hitchcock's horror classic. Even number plate is from the era. Some of Bernard Herrman's original score from Psycho can also be heard as Norma talk to Keri Tate.
Another feature proves once and for all that people need to put the past behind you before really move. If someone cares too much about the past, sometimes it comes back to haunt him or her. In Halloween H20, this is literally the case. After she witnessed Michael burning at the end of Halloween II, Laurie Strode had been able to suppress the memories of the traumatic night and was afraid that he was still alive. He came after her again in the hospital after Dr. Loomis shot him six times at the end of Halloween. Granted the incidents as she stands in 1978 was pretty difficult to forget had Laurie to put these terrible images out of his mind, if only for one day. She could not make it so that his older brother did, in fact, return to finish what he had started, thus confirming Laurie worst fears.
If you want to wrap, some believe that Halloween H20: twenty years later was an attempt to revive an old horror franchise, which had slowly die after the last three installments. It may have been true, but the Halloween franchise was still fairly well known then and continues to be today!
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