I have always thought of H1, H2 and H20 as a trilogy. I never got the hate for H20. Many of the long standing criticisms are very misguided. People call it a Scream clone. Why? Sure, it's more modern looking than the other films, only because it IS a modern film. Is it because of the teens? The three teens in this film are no different than any other cast of teens in the series or most other slasher flicks. Hell, they are barely in the film. The character of Laurie is still the main protagonist and I think haters completely miss how the bulk of the film is about her. This is very much Laurie's film. It doesn't concern itself with trying to be ultra hip or modern with meta humor gags. It's a straight forward slasher film. The stalk sequences are genuinely suspenseful and the last act is one of the best of any slasher film ever made.
I like to pretend Resurrection never happened. You can argue most sequels are made solely for profit but Resurrection is one of the only films where I could genuinely feel the greed of the producers oozing through the screen. Every single aspect of that film is fake and phony-the plot, the characters, the acting, the absolutely idiotic and insulting way Mike is still alive....urgh it makes me so angry. It's one of my most hated films of all time. Say what you want about Rob Zombies films. At least they are a distinct vision of the director whether you hate it or not. Resurrection is a soulless, empty insult of the highest order.
You know what tonally I can see the Scream comparisons both are set round high schools but other than that H20 is very different. Scream borrowed heavily from the original Halloween quite intentionally! even so far to the point that it basically gets pointed out in the film. I agree with what you said on H20, I'd even add that the script is very clever at times especially when Laurie is teaching the class and what she's talking about references what she eventually has to do in the film by the end
I just hated everything Zombie did with the Halloween films,I really wushu they'd gave made Patrick Lussiers Halloween 3D though.
I don't mind Resurrection I think remove Busta Ryhmes and it's ok. I even liked the big brother style idea behind it, but ultimately I think the better choice would have been to do the whole film in a mental asylum with Laurie.
I love H20 think it's one of the best of the series, I'd rank them like this:
Halloween 10/10
Halloween 2 9/10
Halloween 4 8.5/10
Halloween H20 8/10
Halloween III (heavily underrated, although it fails as a Myers film fir a film set on a Halloween it's great) 7.5/10
Halloween 6 6.5/10
Halloween Resurrection 6/10
Halloween 5 5/10
RZ Halloween 4/10
Halloween 6 Producers Cut 3/10
RZ Halloween 2 2/10 (that 2 is for the dream sequence only)
I like H20.
There was nothing groundbreaking or top-notch in it, but, it is a good horror flick. The locations and sets are terrific: they really ooze atmosphere. Additionally, the characters are written well and played well (again, nothing ground-breaking, but satisfactory.) My only complaint is a minor one: I wish they had used Ottman's score, instead of recycling cues from Scream. I listened to his original soundtrack and have to say, it would have great in the film. Nitpicking aside, this is one of the few films that I play every October.
Nice to see it getting some praise on here, everywhere else I go they tend to slate it. I totally agree on the Ottman thing, like I said fix that and put the right mask all the way through, oh and also add Dinald Pleasance actual dialogue from the original and actually have the balls to kill LL Cool J (who wasn't bad in it) and I think it'd been totally spot on, but it was pretty close anyway.
Something else I always wondered about H20 does anyone know if the head chopping moment set up intentionally for the twist that came to pas in the next one? Cause you do see him feel his head and look a little startled that he's wearing a mask or at least it appears that way.
