Halloween H20 Review

As everyone knows it is impossible to kill the boogeyman in a profitable horror film franchise. Freddy Krueger and Friday The 13th`s Jason have been indestructable money makers over the years and their success owes a large debt to John Carpenter`s 1978 classic Halloween - the original and best modern slasher movie and the film which helped make Jamie Lee Curtis a star. It was actually Curtis who proposed a 20th anniversary sequel and Halloween H20 benefits enormously from her return as Laurie Strode, the baby sitter who survived the rampage of her demented brother Michael Myers in Illinois all those years ago. Now the single mother of a 17 year son and headmistress of an upmarket California highschool, Laurie understandably has a Halloween phobia and this year has even more reason to be nervous....While not a patch on Carpenter`s terrifying original, Halloween H20 is easily the best of its six sequels. Veteran horror director Steve Miner delivers a few well executed set pieces and the lack of heavy duty bloodshed is a welcome relief in a genre not noted for its restraint. There are some good touches along the way, including the casting of Curtis` mother Janet Leigh, who offers some knowing advice about dealing with trauma, and Carpenter`s original theme music is used to good advantage. Halloween H20 doesn`t scale any great heights but provides a decently scary time at the movies.