Once again the studios figure they don't have enough money so they whip a sequel on us. This time it is number seven in the Halloween series with a bit of a twist... Jamie Lee Curtis plays Keri Tate, fomrely known as Laura Strode, the exact same character she played in the original Halloween twenty years ago in 1978. I never saw the original but H20 actually was pretty good.
Keri Tate/Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) rememebers her brother, Michael Myers
This time it starts in some town on October 30 in some town and Michael Myers (Chris Durand) has broken into the house of his former shrink at the mental hospital he was in. There he finds out that his sister Laurie Strode wasn't actually dead as everybody thought, but she had actually changed her name to Keri Tate and is now the headmistris of a posh private high school in California. As he goes off to try and kill her again, we flash to one of Keri's many nightmares about Michael... you see, after being stalked and nearly killed by her brother several times Laura is a little mixed up with an assortment of medication and a bit of an alcohol problem. Her son John (Josh Hartnett) is a typical teenager (at least by movie standards), he is the BMOC, he has a girlfriend and (as is typical of horror movies) he is a horny boy. As it turns to Halloween day everybody in the high school is leaving to go on a big camping trip to Yosemite while John and his friend stay behind with their girlfriends. Michael Myers finally shows up and starts killing pretty much everyone he can until he can get to the final confrontation with Keri/Laurie.
Chris Durand gets to be the psycho Michael Myers
By horror movie standards this movie isn't all that great, but it does do one thing that Wes Craven proved could be done in Scream... it made fun of horror movies. No matter what Laurie/Keri could do Micahel Myers just kept coming. She threw him of a balcony onto a huge table, she stuck an ax in his shoulder, I'm pretty sure she stabbed him with a knife too. You have got to give credit to Mr. Myers, he sets his sights on a goal and he sticks with it until he accomplishes that goal, if anybody personifies what should be the American work ethic it's him. It also has a few lines poking fun at itself, like when Keri/Laurie runs him down with a van and then says "This is where he gets back up," and he got back up. But probably the best part about this movie is it sets itself up fast and gets to the end fast. It didn't try to get through a lot of plot... Michael finds Laurie/Keri, he chases her and she fights back, simple. Because of this the movie is only about an hour and twenty minutes long so if you go in the evening you actually have time to do something else that night. I thought Halloween H20 was worth going to the theater.
