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Halloween: H20 (or Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) is the seventh movie in the Halloween horror movie series originally created by John Carpenter (though Carpenter was not involved in the production of H20). Initially released in the US in the summer of 1998, it was released in numerous countries in Europe, as well as Singapore, Israel, Australia, and Mexico over the following months.

Tagline

Twenty Years Later.
Blood Is Thicker Than Water.

Plot

The movie features the return of Curtis's character from the first two Halloween films, Laurie Strode. Laurie is now revealed to be living under the assumed name "Keri Tate." As Tate, Laurie is living a seemingly idyllic life, complete with boyfriend and career (as a head master at a private boarding school in Northern California ). Laurie's life is turned upside down again when her brother, serial killer Michael Myers, tracks her down and starts killing off her co-workers and students one by one. This problem is overcome, however, when Laurie seemingly decapitates Michael in the film's final sequence.

The movie offers two possible explanations for the fact that Laurie has supposedly died some time prior to the fourth film. In this film, it is established that Laurie had faked her death many years prior, thus her assumed name. But additionally, there is dialogue in this film which suggests it wasn't intended to be a directly sequel to the fourth, fifth and sixth films, but instead occurs in some completely different timeline. Throughout the film, Michael is spoken of, even by police officers, as though he hasn't been heard from in the 20 years since the night depicted in first two films. The would seem incompatible with the events of the fourth, fifth and sixth films, as Michael killed, or was involved in the killing of, dozens in those films, including the majority of a town's police force being slaughtered on two different occasions. Such events would certainly not have gone unknown to the characters in this film.

Cast

Chris Durand — Michael Myers
Jamie Lee Curtis
— Laurie Strode/Keri Tate
Josh Hartnett
— John Tate
Michelle Williams — Molly Cartwell
LL Cool J
— Ronald 'Ronny' Jones
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
— Sarah Wainthrope
Adam Hann-Byrd — Charles 'Charlie' Deveraux
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
— Jimmy Howell
Adam Arkin
— Will Brennan
Janet Leigh
— Norma Watson

Trivia

Director Steve Miner
has an uncredited cameo as the School Financial Advisor.

Jamie Lee Curtis's mother also has a role in the movie as Norma, the secretary of Curtis' character. The name "Norma" is a nod to Leigh's role in Psycho
, in which she fell victim to the murderous Norman Bates, which harkens back to the original Halloween films which featured Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence
), whose name was taken from the character in Psycho played by John Gavin
. In Norma's final scene in the movie the theme to the movie Psycho can be heard as she walks over to an exact duplicate model car she drove in the Alfred Hitchcock film.

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