![]() ![]() ![]() But fans of the series, or at least of the first two films, should enjoy it. The whole thing feels like it's running on an I.V. The producers of this movie use a bigger budget to add some modern "scary" sound effects for atmosphere and fill out John Carpenter's original score with a sweeping orchestra-it's like John Williams' version of the Halloween theme. But when Laurie Strode takes matters into her own hands and comes after Michael with guns blazing (so to speak), hold on to yourselves-violent tendencies seem to run in this family. There are some obligatory killings, but they go for gruesome rather than frightening, which was not John Carpenter's approach. ![]() ![]() There are some creepy scenes early on in this film (the one in the deserted rest stop bathroom, most notably), but this movie really exists for the sole purpose of having Jamie Lee Curtis kick Michael Myers's ass, and the catharsis in watching her do so is worth the price of admission. It doesn't come close to succeeding, but it does manage to become, in my opinion, the second best of the series, though that's pretty faint praise. "Halloween: H20" makes an obvious effort to return to the franchise's roots and recapture the qualities that made the first one so good. ![]()
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