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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

Rate: 1
Viewed: 3/08

Halloween20
3/08: Hippy, lame, boring, and pointless, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later gives Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers a serious run for its money as the worst Halloween picture made.

It's that bad. There's too much profanity, way more than all of the Halloween pictures combined. The worst part is how Michael Myers acts, walks, and moves. Instead of the imposing two-hundred pound slashing killer as seen in the previous sequels, he looks like a thinnish seventeen-year-old hipster doofus with manicured hands who thinks he has the part down pat.

Plus, his mask looks ridiculous; the way the eyeholes are cut wide open is unbelievable. Even worse, different masks are used throughout, contributing to the inconsistency in his character. That's when I knew it was no longer a Halloween movie but some bastardized version.

The plot seems to skip what happened in parts four, five, and six, only to be concerned with the first two pictures. I assume the producers refused to acknowledge the previous three sequels because they didn't make enough money to match their expectations. Jamie Lee Curtis is only in this for promotional purposes. So is her mother Janet Leigh (Marion Crane as in ka-ching, get it?). As for everybody else, they're awful. Josh Hartnett and L.L. Cool J in a Halloween flick, anyone?

All in all, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later throws away the past by going "new school."