Cast/Notable Credits:
Steve Miner (Director): Friday the 13th Pt. 2, Friday the 13th Pt. 3, Day of the Dead
Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode/Keri Tate): Pictured right
Josh Harnett (John Tate): The Faculty, Pearl Harbor (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), 40 Days, 40 Nights (2002), Hollywood Homicide (2003), Sin City (2005), The Black Dahlia (2006), 30 Days of Night
Adam Arkin (Will): Hitch (2005), 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Life and Chicago Hope T.V. series
Michelle Williams (Molly): Species, Dick (1999), Broke Back Mountain (2005), Dawson’s Creek T.V. Series
LL Cool J (Ronny): Wildcats (1986), Toys (1992), Deep Blue Sea, Any Given Sunday (1999), Charlie’s Angels (2000), Rollerball (2002), S.W.A.T. (2003), Mindhunters (2004)
Jodi Lynn O’Keefe (Samantha): She’s All That (1999), The Crow 3 (2000), Devil in the Flesh 2 (2000), Nash Bridges & Prison Break T.V. series
Janet Leigh (Norma): Psycho (1960), The Fog (1980)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jimmy): Angels in the Outfield (1994), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), 3rd Rock from the Sun T.V. series
Nancy Stephens (Marion): Halloween, Halloween 2
Chris Durand (Michael Myers)
Trailer:
Plot:
It has been twenty years since the night Michael escaped and went after Laurie; hence...Halloween H20. Michael has tracked down nurse Marion
(nurse at Smith’s Groove in first two Halloween movies) to discover the whereabouts of his sister, Laurie. Michael learns that Laurie has gone into hiding and teaches at a small private academy in Summer Glen, California. She has also changed her name to Keri Tate.Road trip! Mikey goes on a cross-country road trip to California to find her. The majority of the school takes off on a weekend field trip leaving a handful of people behind, one of them being Laurie and her seventeen-year old son (Josh Harnett). On a side note, nothing is mentioned or hinted about Laurie's daughter, Jamie (Halloween 4-6). I guess those movies don't exists in this time line, or are just forgotten...as
Well Mikey arrives for the weekend and breaks into the guarded academy compound. LL Cool J plays the campus security guard in charge of the only entrance into the place. LL drops the ball and unknowingly accidentally lets Mikey in the place. Mikey kills remaining handful of people and ends up in a confrontation with Laurie and her son. Laurie fights back!Villain:
Michael returns! Even better, he's not as built or indestructible looking as some icons tend to do as sequels pile up. Nope. Just a regular ole' Mikey. He still wields the knife around slicin' and dicin' people like a bad-ass.
Cast:
H20 featured a pretty good cast considering it was a horror movie. Jamie Lee returns in the role of Laurie and does a good job. Josh Harnett makes his movie debut and supplies eye candy for the women. As for the men...we get Michelle Williams (Pictured right) and Jodi Lynn O’Keefe hang around and screaming for our eye candy enjoyment.SFX/Gore:
Well for the seven installment of the Halloween series, you would expect some odd Godly number of deaths hovering around the twenties. But not in this case. The film makers went back to old school and tried to make this flick scary rather than bloody. There were a total of seven deaths in the film. There were no over-the-top use of gore or anything hokey like unbelievable deaths or fountains of blood.
TNA:
Heartthrob Harnett and studly LL Cool J supply eye candy for the women, but I don't care about that. The real TNA comes from the two hot chicks (Williams and O'Keefe), and a M.I.L.F. (Curtis). Unfortunately there aren't any boobies. BOO! Michelle Williams pictured below.
T.Gun's Take:
The movie takes a step back from piles and piles of bloody bodies. Instead, the movie tries to accomplish a more of a suspense atmosphere feeling to it. I believe it worked. It was also a breath of fresh air after the previous installments of crap the franchise had put up.
I was glad to see the return of Laurie to the franchise. It's good to see an accomplished actor or actress come back to their roots in the horror genre. On the other hand, I was disappointed that previous four movies, characters and story lines were just written off as if they were never there. Completely ignored. After all, Jamie was Laurie’s “other” child. I thought it might have deserved some type of explanation of why she didn’t pursue her out in the past.
The past two Halloween movies (5 & 6) took a lot out of me to watch. They really did. It was a level of unbearable. Part 5 can be tolerated in small doses, but Part 6 just sucked. H20 revitalized my interest into Halloween.You can tell that the movie was made during the mid to late 90’s. It just had that feel to it. What I mean is that all the hot chicks were from popular T.V. sitcoms and they were afraid to show a little TNA in the film which might have ruined their careers. Can't we even get a peek like this at least! (Jodi Lynn pictured left)
One of my favorite directors, Steve Miner (Friday 2 & 3) directs this one and does a pretty good job at using more suspense and tension rather than blood and guts. He seems to have nailed the horror genre!
Misc. Movie Trivia:
- H20 opened on August 9, 1998 and made $55 million at the box office ($16.1 million opening weekend)
- The car Janet Leigh (Norma) drives off in is the original car from Psycho
- A clip from Scream 2 plays on a background T.V. plays tribute to Scream. Scream showed the original Halloween on T.V. The clip was originally So I Married An Axe Murderer (Mike Myers) but changed later on.
- Movie storyline went on as if Halloween 3-6 never took place. A scene was made explaining the murders Michael Myers did, but was cut from film.
- Josh Harnett and Jodi Lynn O’Keefe’s first featured film
- H2O is the molecular compound of water
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