Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - Movie Review

Halloween is just a few days away, and now that the new series of retcon Halloween movies has concluded, I think this is a good time to revisit the original Halloween retcon HALLOWEEN H20!

#HalloweenH20

[orinanime]

The moment Laurie smashes the controls on the security gate, and grabs the axe, to start going on the offensive... Shouting Michael's name... As the Halloween theme starts playing for her... I get chills every time.

[Nove]

H20 and Halloween 2018 honestly had some of the best endings to the series. It just sucks that both were scrubbed away by their sequels.

[lacolem]

Let’s never forget LL Cool J was the real hero of this movie. A security guard, romance writer, and POV character to acknowledge how ridiculous this whole ordeal is. I love this movie. You had Laurie, her son, Michael, and Laurie beheading tf out of her brother to break the cycle of trauma she’s burdened her kid with. It did everything the new movies did, but it didn’t have art house pretense.

Only negative is that it didn’t push it further by referencing a daughter she maybe had to give away because she was an alcoholic mess.

[thefitnerd]

I think personally that if they had the series as 1, 2, H20, and then did the "Mike tricked her to kill someone else" thing they used in Resurrection, but used that for why Laurie was so traumatized in 2018, then had that be the final showdown, that probably would have been the perfect send off to the series, IMHO.

[LukeLovesRose]

With one chop, Michael and Laurie went out with far more dignity. I'm glad people are finally looking back on H20 fondly

[Savage_]

Halloween 3 is my absolute favorite Halloween movie! It kept with John Carpenter's idea of Halloween being an anthology of movies that take place during Halloween. I wish it could have continued like that.

[wstine]

It's interesting that Laurie Strode has three different children in each Halloween timeline

[blakeellis]

One of my fav Halloweens. Jamie Lee Curtis was badass when she’s walking through the streets screaming michaels name.

[everyoneash]

This movie...in one film...did the ending of Laurie's story so much better and respectful than this new trilogy did

[rubberlover]

“H2O had more tension than gore.” Yes, just like the original! That was the point. 1, 2, and H20 is also my preferred trilogy despite my wavering like or dislike for the other nine films.

[salmonsdontdie]

First of all, Halloween H20 was the very first horror film I saw in a theater, so it holds an insane place in my heart. The ending of H20 does feel very satisfying, apparently that ending explanation in Resurrections, was planned all along. They even filmed those flashback bits during H20s filming

[Havok]

H40 is still my time line. I was born in 91 and scared shitless by horror movies so I didn't see any Halloween films until about 2012. I knew Michael, who he was, and I'd tried to watch a few films but the tension of him walking down shadowed hallways with that theme song always frightened me too much. Around 2012 I finally kicked that fear and dove headlong into horror but, 2018 was the first Halloween film I saw in theaters. That, plus my love of psychological elements, skyrocketed the H40 time line to the top. I just love that they simplified Michael down to what he was in the first film. Evil. He didn't have a reason, he just was, that WAS his reason, and the H40 series put that into the spotlight. The effect that evil has, how it spreads, how it effects individuals and communities.

[JaydonTCD]

Halloween/Halloween II/Halloween H20 is definitely the way I watch the series usually. Love the ending to H20. And after I finish those three, I watch Season of the Witch cause that movie is criminally underrated and I love it.

[Sir_Master_Kaino]

If it actually was Halloween 1, 2 and H20. That would've been an amazing trilogy. Especially for the horror franchise

[isaacwahlers]

Thank you Jeremy for reviewing this! This has to be my 2nd favorite Halloween movie of all time. Also now I have the perfect Halloween trilogy to watch over Halloween weekend. Halloween, Halloween II, & H2O

[maximomaximus]

Yeah. I always thought the ending of H20 was the best ending for Michael and Laurie.

[seereadnhear]

When it comes to H2O it was one of my favorite movie memories, where my brother and I and his friend had an absolute blast in the theater. We were almost thrown out along with everybody else he made people laugh, we pissed the employees of the theater and making people laugh doing so. It would make for a great story in a book. I'll tell it one day, but damn every time I think about Halloween H2O it's one of my most Fondest Memories with my brother. Rest in peace Shaun(Lil'Bro.)

[chrisearle]

H20 had a solid opener with the Loomis narrative. Also appreciated the fact that Meyers seemed faster/angrier. Solid film in the franchise

[adampryor]

I've been saying this for years and thought I was the only one who felt this way. Glad to see theres a community of us who know how good H20 really was, especially compared to Kills and Ends.

[comicking]

"The Better Retcon!"
And then Ressurection made people wanna retcon this retcon...