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List Price: $39.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 05 August, 1998 DVD Release : 19 October, 1999 |
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Halloween H2O description Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humor and style, but it's all setup for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) costar, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Smart Sequel Is Almost as Great as the Original. |
| Of course, the original "Halloween" can never be topped. Except maybe by "Psycho", which can never be topped. Anyway, who'd have thought the SIXTH sequel would be this scary, witty, and well-cast, with bells and whistles galore? H20 is all that.
Our sequel begins with Michael breaking into the late Dr. Loomis' house and terrorizing Nurse Marian (a character from the first movie) and two teenagers. He steals a file kept on Laurie Strode, which revealed that she faked her death and assumed a new identity as headmistress of a "very posh, secluded private school in Northern California." He manages to get from Illinois to Cali in two days (in two really old cars--everything works out for him!), and hijinks ensue. I love you, Jamie Lee Curtis. She's one of my all-time favorites. All her (acting) akills are on display here. She's smart, funny, vulnerable, strong, neurotic, and controlling, all at the same time. Without her intelligence, the script's unique efforts to show Laurie's psychic torment over 20 years could easily have come off as unsympathetic psychobabble. Laurie's had lots of therapy, is highly-medicated, sneaks drinks (not all her self-help efforts are doctor-approved), and won't let her son (far) out of her sight. Mom and son argue (realistically!) about her "irrational" fears ruining both their lives. Most importantly, in the movie's biggest turning point, Laurie passes up the chance to escape and chooses to confront Michael. Her "empowerment" is pure edge-of-your-seat entertainment. The supporting cast is fantastic. I can't believe some of these other reviews dis the acting. Yup, no way Josh Hartnett or Michelle Williams are gonna have a future in the business. The kids playing their friends (Adam Hann-Byrd and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), too far down the supporting cast for safety, actually outplay their now-more-famous costars here. And, that's none other than LL Cool J as a thoroughly unsuccessful security guard for the school. His phone conversations with his wife, who is only heard on the other end of the line, are perfect comic relief. Adam Arkin has the worst line in the movie ("That's sucky"?! when JLC confides that her brother killed her sister!!!???) He goes on to make an even bigger blunder before...well, never mind... A scene with Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee's real-life mom and ultra-victim in "Psycho," actually includes the notorious car from that all-time classic. Later, "Scream 2" is playing on a dorm room TV. And the most soothing oldie one can hear before being brutally slain, the Chordettes' "Mister Sandman," again features on the "Halloween" playlist. A DVD extra has Curtis, Arkin, director Steve Miner, John Carpenter, and other behind-the-scenes folks discussing H20 and the "Halloween" phenomenon in general. Previous films' dialogue from Donald Pleasance is heard over the opening credits (though it may actually be Tom Kane, credited for "Voice Over"), and the closing credits include a dedication to Pleasance. High-class touches abound from beginning to end. A brilliant job by all involved. |
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