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Halloween H20
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788813900
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0788813900
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: October 05, 1999
Running Time: 86 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 05, 1998
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Welcome back Jamie Lee!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now THAT'S more like it!!!
After four horrendous sequels that made ZERO sense, Hollywood brings back Jamie Lee, pretends that parts 3 - 6 never happened and makes the best Halloween since part 2.
A brilliant continuation of the story line.
Expertly directed, superb acting, a great cast, even with Josh and his pillow fight hair.
LL rocks in this movie.
Start to finish a film FINALLY worthy of the Halloween name.
One again it should have ended after this but Hollyweird ... Read More
Rating: - H2O: yes, maybe, no.
I like this movie. Not the best one done of course, but it is passable.
Rating:  - Non canon, non enjoyable
This was a strange move by Dimension, who had picked up the "Halloween" franchise. The first Dimension "Halloween", part 6 "The Curse Of Michael Myers", was a great film - before the last third was reshot due to the postfilming death of Donald Pleasance. In order to keep the series going, they needed a new ending, which almost destroyed the movie. Then they came out with this one, which bizarrely ignores everything that had happened in parts 4, 5 and their own 6 (in fact I believe "H20" also pretty much ... Read More
Rating:  - H20 isn't a terrible movie, but it's mostly lackluster.
Fans of the franchise are split on H20; some say it's the best sequel of the series that captures the style of the original and others disagree and say it's one of the weaker ones. In my opinion both of have some very valid points. Honestly I don't think this movie captured the style of the original at all. There are homage's, but paying homage doesn't make the movies in the same style. A lot of movies pay homage to other flicks, but that doesn't make them a like. H20 feels a lot more like a Scream movie ... Read More
Rating: - Frighteningly Entertaining" and breathtaking"
"Michael Myers" returning after a 20 year absence, was every bit worth the wait! Jamie Lee Curtis, has taken the role of Laurie Strode and made it her own, and adding in the storyline, of Josh Hartnett Playing her son, was priceless. It grabs at your heart how she is always trying to warn everyone and no one believes her. Also bringing her real life mother Janet Leigh in, was an extra bonus no one expected, but loved!!! great addition to my collection!
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