Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Review

Review of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

This is the kind of vapid I was honestly looking for in the HALLOWEEN franchise once Michael Myers came back (in response to negative reception to SEASON OF THE WITCH), CURSE notwithstanding of course. There's something that feels rushed in this where it really just wants to start throwing Myers everywhere it can so he can just kill people already. That's fine but there really isn't any time spent developing these characters, least of all Laurie Strode.

We're just dropped into her new life in California, she's a teacher now under a different name and she has a son who's 17 and wants to go to Yosemite and -- hold on, wait when did she move to CA, how long has she been there, who is Josh Hartnett's dad -- there's too many things that you have to just accept without any real background. However this movie feels far from a juggling act as Miner is calling on the Kevin Williamson formula that did so well in, well, Kevin Williamson movies. But it just lands as hollow for the first half (for my money, that's the most important part of a movie). The finale does come around but everything that happens before it doesn't make Laurie's moment feel really earned.

It's still not the worst HALLOWEEN movie I've seen.