Halloween H20: Twenty 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 writers are John Carpenter (The Fog), Debra Hill (Halloween), Robert Zappia (TV's 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 sequel to the events of Halloween II, disregarding the last three Michael Myers films. He comes to Marion Chambers Wittington's house, the nurse of his late shrink Dr. Sam Loomis, to look for a file. The killer locates Laurie Strode's, his younger sister and was believed 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 head mistress of Hillcrest Academy. After killing Marion and two neighbor boys, Michael steals a car and drives to California to find his sister. Meanwhile in California, Laurie Strode has been struggling to put the events of 20 years ago behind her. She is still haunted and tries to drown out her memories with alcohol, much to the chagrin of her son John. Her older brother has now reached the school and, after nightfall, sneaks in through the front gate. He is now back to kill the sister he failed to kill 20 years earlier.
One highlight of this installment of the Halloween series is the appearance of Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis's real life mother and star of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. There is a line in the movie that I find quite ironic, if not outright deliberate. It is when Jamie Lee and Janet meet in the parking lot. Norma (Janet) notices that "Ms. Tate" (Jamie Lee) is quite jumpy, especially around Halloween. After she accidentally startles her, she asks if for one moment she can be maternal. That's a little too obvious. But what the viewers may not notice is that the car that Norma gets into is the same car that she drove in Hitchcock's horror classic. Even the license plate is from that era. Also some of Bernard Herrman's original score from Psycho can be heard as Norma is talking to Keri Tate.
Another feature proves once and for all that people must put the past behind them before truly moving on. If a person worries too much about the past, sometimes it comes back to haunt him or her. In Halloween H20, this is quite literally the case. After she witnessed Michael burning at the end of Halloween II, Laurie Strode had been unable to suppress the memories of that traumatic night and was fearful that he was still alive. He did come after her again at the hospital after Dr. Loomis shot him six times at the end of Halloween. Granted the events that she faced in 1978 were pretty difficult to forget, Laurie had to put those horrible images out of her mind, if only for one day. She couldn't do that so her older brother did, in fact, return to finish what he had started, thus confirming Laurie's worst fears.
To wrap, some believe that Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later was an attempt to resurrect an old horror franchise that had been slowly dying after the last three installments. It may have been true, but the Halloween franchise was still pretty well-known then and continues to be today!
This story is a direct sequel to the events of Halloween II, disregarding the last three Michael Myers films. He comes to Marion Chambers Wittington's house, the nurse of his late shrink Dr. Sam Loomis, to look for a file. The killer locates Laurie Strode's, his younger sister and was believed 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 head mistress of Hillcrest Academy. After killing Marion and two neighbor boys, Michael steals a car and drives to California to find his sister. Meanwhile in California, Laurie Strode has been struggling to put the events of 20 years ago behind her. She is still haunted and tries to drown out her memories with alcohol, much to the chagrin of her son John. Her older brother has now reached the school and, after nightfall, sneaks in through the front gate. He is now back to kill the sister he failed to kill 20 years earlier.
One highlight of this installment of the Halloween series is the appearance of Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis's real life mother and star of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. There is a line in the movie that I find quite ironic, if not outright deliberate. It is when Jamie Lee and Janet meet in the parking lot. Norma (Janet) notices that "Ms. Tate" (Jamie Lee) is quite jumpy, especially around Halloween. After she accidentally startles her, she asks if for one moment she can be maternal. That's a little too obvious. But what the viewers may not notice is that the car that Norma gets into is the same car that she drove in Hitchcock's horror classic. Even the license plate is from that era. Also some of Bernard Herrman's original score from Psycho can be heard as Norma is talking to Keri Tate.
Another feature proves once and for all that people must put the past behind them before truly moving on. If a person worries too much about the past, sometimes it comes back to haunt him or her. In Halloween H20, this is quite literally the case. After she witnessed Michael burning at the end of Halloween II, Laurie Strode had been unable to suppress the memories of that traumatic night and was fearful that he was still alive. He did come after her again at the hospital after Dr. Loomis shot him six times at the end of Halloween. Granted the events that she faced in 1978 were pretty difficult to forget, Laurie had to put those horrible images out of her mind, if only for one day. She couldn't do that so her older brother did, in fact, return to finish what he had started, thus confirming Laurie's worst fears.
To wrap, some believe that Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later was an attempt to resurrect an old horror franchise that had been slowly dying after the last three installments. It may have been true, but the Halloween franchise was still pretty well-known then and continues to be today!
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