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Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later
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Ignoring the continuity of the last three films of the Halloween franchise, Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later picks up the story of Final Girl Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). After faking her death to live in peace following the horrific events during the Halloween night of 1978, Laurie had changed her name to Keri Tate, had a son, and became a headmistress for a high school far away from Haddonfield, Illinois.Michael Myers, however, has finally tracked Laurie down, and after two decades of waiting, he comes back into her life — and enters the lives of a number of students, including Laurie's son — in order to kill her once and for all...While it offered a solid conclusion to the story of Laurie Strode, that didn't stop the suits from making a sequel.In a rather amusing footnote: the film was directed by Steve Miner, who also directed the second and third Friday the 13th movies—making him the only filmmaker ever to direct installments in more than one of the "big three" Slasher Movie franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street). | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: Laurie after she starts hunting Michael: | |
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Balls of Steel | |
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Balls of Steel: Michael takes a knee to the groin, but barely reacts. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Detective Fitzsimmons is quick to pick up on the likelihood of Michael's return while examining a crime scene (even noting how they Never Found the Body) and how Michael could go on another Halloween rampage, quickly alerting Haddonfield, expecting Michael to return to the scene of his past murders yet again. Too bad that this time, Michael is avoiding Haddonfield in favor of going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Laurie, in a different town. | |
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Back for the Dead | |
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Back for the Dead: Marion Chambers, who featured as a minor character in the first movie and played a bigger role in the second, returns in the prologue. Michael breaks into her house looking for details on Laurie. Naturally she doesn't survive the encounter. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: John's estranged dad is an "abusive, chain-smoking, methadone addict." | |
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Dumbwaiter Ride | |
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Dumbwaiter Ride: Charlie rides the dumbwaiter, and then after he's killed, Michael hides Charlie's body in it. When Sarah finds the body, she's forced to get inside it and try to ride it up with his body, but Myers tampers with the dumbwaiter's rope, further incapacitating her and then kills her. | |
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Stalker Shrine | |
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Stalker Shrine: It is revealed that Dr. Loomis's office is a shrine to Michael Myers, with three decades worth of newspaper clippings about Myers taped all over the office walls. To add to the creepiness, he also has high school photos of Laurie (Michael's sister) stuck to the wall, too. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Norma, the character played by Janet Leigh, gets in a car that is similar to one she drove in Psycho, with a piece of the film's score playing in the background. She also tells Laurie that the shower is clogged - a reference to her character's famous death in the film. The character was originally intended as an Actor Allusion to P. J. Soles - as she was named after Soles's character from Carrie (1976), but was played by Leigh after Soles failed to give them an answer, meaning that her name being similar to Psycho's antagonist Norman Bates was a coincidence. Likewise, Norma's motherly attitude towards Laurie was intended as this, to serve as a nod to the fact that mother and daughter were starring alongside each other. And in another sense, Nurse Marion returning from the first two films; the character was named after Janet's from Psycho. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Laurie Strode, who goes from a Damsel in Distress to a badass Action Girl in this movie. She provides the page image. | |
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Advertised Extra | |
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Advertised Extra: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, whose character dies in the opening scene. | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: invokedMarion Whittington and Doctor Loomis. Actor Donald Pleasence passed away in 1995 while finishing Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. At least Loomis's death was off-screen, unlike Marion's unfortunately. | |
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Sex Signals Death | |
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Sex Signals Death: Downplayed. Charlie and Sarah joke about having sex more than Molly and John and the former pair is killed while the latter pair survives. Will is also keener to do it with Laurie than she is, and he gets killed. | |
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Sassy Black Woman | |
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Sassy Black Woman: Ronnie's wife manages to embody this trope despite never appearing on screen and only featuring on the phone. | |
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works | |
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Averted. During the final confrontation with Michael Myers, Laurie throws several large kitchen knives at him. They all miss. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: John, Molly, and Ronnie, who each try to fight off Michael and end up surviving. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: We're given a Bait-and-Switch implying that Michael will murder a mother and her young daughter, but he just steals their car keys and leaves. None of the film's victims are younger than teenagers. | |
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Triumphant Reprise | |
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Triumphant Reprise: A more triumphant-sounding version of the theme plays as Laurie decides to track Michael down. | |
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Kleptomaniac Hero | |
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Kleptomaniac Hero: Nurse Chambers's neighbor Jimmy does bravely venture into her house with a hockey stick when they think someone dangerous is there, but he also pauses to steal a little beer in the process. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Sarah. While preparing a massive amount of junk food for a Halloween party, she mentions she's got such an intense love of food that it's actually a goal of hers to get fat. Charlie agrees with her philosophy. | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye | |
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The numerous Stealth Hi/Bye Michael pulls are also reminiscent of those in the first film. | |
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Buxom Beauty Standard | |
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Buxom Beauty Standard: Ronnie is narrating a story to his wife, and we hear him talking about a woman with "round, melon breasts." | |
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Villain Decay | |
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Villain Decay: Unfortunately, Michael's iconic and creepy breathing is missing in this film. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: Laurie beheads Michael in the end. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Laurie has become this, though she's still functional. It's underlined by the lunch scene where, while Will is in the restroom, she orders another wine while there's a full glass on the table already, downs the first in a gulp, then drinks the second glass back down to where the first was when Will walked away so he doesn't notice anything strange. | |
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Nonchalant Dodge | |
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Nonchalant Dodge: Michael's response to Laurie's knife-throwing act. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
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Refusal of the Call: A minor example, but Jimmy's neighbor Tony is very keen on staying outside and waiting for the police when Jimmy goes in to investigate. | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: At the end, Laurie turns the tables on Michael and starts hunting him down with an axe. | |
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Bloody Handprint | |
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Bloody Handprint: Laurie leaves a bloody handprint on the door of a closet, tricking Michael Myers into thinking she's hiding inside. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: This film reveals the number seventeen to be this to the series. Michael murdered Judith and tried to kill Laurie when they were both seventeen, and he hasn't returned until now, when John is seventeen. | |
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Prolonged Prologue | |
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Prolonged Prologue: The prologue goes for almost 20 minutes before the opening credits begin. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: Inverted. Ronnie the security guard is mistakenly shot by Will, but appears at the end having survived. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Laurie has had enough of being stalked by Michael and takes the fight to him. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Laurie is teaching an English literature class on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Molly, one of the students, responds to a question about the book and fate with this: This leaves Laurie shaken and deep in thought, and it foreshadows the final scenes in the movie where she finally decides to stop running from Michael and confront her monster. After twenty years of living in fear and seeing her loved ones murdered, she has nothing more to lose. It's time to face her fears and end the nightmare. | |
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Canon Discontinuity | |
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Canon Discontinuity: Played with. The Jamie Lloyd portions of the franchise aren't mentioned (though they would have been in the original treatment), but it's half hinted that they did happen and half hinted that they didn't. The photo montage at the start shows a bloody pair of scissors, as a nod to the fourth film. Laurie faking her death is playing off of her character's death as mentioned in the fifth film. However, it's also mentioned that Michael hasn't been heard of whatsoever since the events of the first and second films, which implies the events of 4 through 6 didn't happen. | |
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Dead Star Walking | |
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Dead Star Walking: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the first to die. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The cheerful and upbeat "Mr. Sandman" opens the film, in an obvious reference to the second one, which started the same way. The credits feature "What's This Life For?" by Creed, a song featuring a section of lyrics repeating over and over that we all live under the Christian god ("We all live under the reign / Of one King")...very out of place in a slasher film. The song also features diegetically in the film while John and Molly listen to it on a boom box, but that actually makes sense since a lot of teens at the time listened to Creed. As a credits song to close out the film, however...not so much. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: From the audience's view. Michael tries to stab John and Molly through a closed gate with no success. Then he notices the keys on the ground, picks them up, and tries to unlock the gate. This shows that Michael may be a psychotic murderer, but he's far from being brainless...if his being able to hunt down Laurie's file and drive cross-country to locate her didn't already indicate that clearly enough. | |
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: No, the movie is not named after the chemical formula for water (H20 = Halloween 20 Years Later). Although, water has a PH of 7.0, and this is the seventh movie in the Halloween franchise. | |
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RetCon | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_b2279346 | comment |
Retcon: Big ones. This film creates a new timeline where the events of 4 through Curse never happen, writing them out of the story. Even though the film purports to take place twenty years after Halloween and Halloween II, Michael shows zero signs of any of the severe injuries he sustained in those films. Both his eyes are perfectly intact despite his left being pierced by a hangar in the original film and both eyes being shot out with a revolver in the second. He also shows absolutely no signs of being a burn victim despite nearly burning to death in the second film. | |
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Evil Overlooker | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_b5f7b739 | comment |
Evil Overlooker: The poster/cover has Michael Myers' Black Eyes of Evil looming over the frightened-looking protagonists. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: After Laurie catches John off campus, she says, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?!" - which even he is uncomfortable with. | |
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Car Fu | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_c2d978fe | comment |
Car Fu: Laurie hijacks an ambulance van with Michael in it and runs it off a cliff in order to kill Michael once and for all. It just ends up pinning him against a tree. | |
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Irony | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Laurie initially refuses to let John go on the Yosemite camping trip, but she relents and gives him a permission slip at the last minute. He decides to stay at the school for a small party...and gets attacked by Michael Myers. | |
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Recut | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_c3ae786a | comment |
Recut: There's a TV Cut that trims the violence and cuss words, but also has some alternate scenes. One added scene gives the counselor played by Adam Arkin some development by revealing that his mother cheated on his traveling salesman father, and he got blamed for knowing but doing nothing, about it. | |
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And Starring | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: There is an "introducing Josh Hartnett." He has done quite well for himself ever since. Janet Leigh is given a special billing for her cameo "Janet Leigh as Norma", although she's not the last billed. Joseph Gordon Levitt gets the "and as" to close off the credits. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One character is named Norma Watson after P.J. Soles' role in the first film adaptation of Carrie. Soles also played Lynda in the original Halloween. There is also a cameo by Janet Leigh, mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and star of Psycho, which is the Spiritual Ancestor to the original Halloween. Janet Leigh drives the car she drove in Psycho, and her scene is scored with the music from that film. One of Josh's friends teases him about Laurie's overprotective ways regarding her refusal to let him go on the class trip, telling him, "20 years from now, you're still going to be living with her, probably running some weird motel out in the middle of nowhere." One of the teens who Nurse Chambers encounters is wearing a hockey mask. Laurie says "drive down to the Beckers'," referencing Casey Becker from Scream (1996) whose parents referenced Laurie's line from Halloween, "drive down to the McKenzies'." | |
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Slashers Prefer Blondes | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_c9561e8b | comment |
Slashers Prefer Blondes: Inverted. The lone blonde in the group is one of the survivors. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Michael has no burn scars or eye injuries, which he would have incurred from the second and first films (which are in this movie's continuity timeline).note Could be an invokedOrphaned Reference to the plot point that it was just a Copycat Killer before Resurrection retconned it. | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_d67aae8f | comment |
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: More like "dusk" and rainy" when the film starts on October 29, but it's a full on thunderstorm by the next day as the cops show up. A thunderclap even cues the opening credits. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Laurie has had enough of Michael's bullshit. | |
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Mama Bear | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_e13156e1 | comment |
Mama Bear: In the original movie, Laurie had no qualms about attacking Michael in self-defense. In H20, she really lets him have it when he attacks her son. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_e9f517e1 | comment |
Artistic License – Geography: Michael drives from Haddonfield, Illinois to Northern California within 1-2 days. Even if he'd driven nonstop—which he didn't, he had to stop because his car broke down and he needs to steal another. Impossible? Not entirely, there's about a 30-hour drive between Chicago and San Francisco. Myers starts his journey from Langdon on October 29th, around 7 p.m., so without stopping, he could arrive in California on the 31st, around 2 or 3 a.m, just in time to "celebrate" Halloween. Gas would definitely remain an issue, though. | |
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Groin Attack | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Laurie knees Michael in the groin. It doesn't do anything except cause him to give her a nasty glare. | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_f068cba | comment |
Oddball in the Series: Alternate continuity or not, this is the first—and only—film in the series to not take place in Haddonfield (the prologue notwithstanding). It also takes place over several days, whereas the other films take place over one. | |
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Camping a Crapper | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_f5c3983a | comment |
Camping a Crapper: Averted. A woman and her daughter go to a public bathroom and Michael Myers follows them in. After a tense scene in which the audience assumes he is going to kill them, he ends up stealing the woman's car keys and leaving instead. | |
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Stab the Salad | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_f6c36157 | comment |
Stab the Salad: The opening shot is of a hand holding a large knife and bringing it down. . .into a large pumpkin, which the knife-holder, a woman, proceeds to begin carving up to make a jack-o'-lantern for a group of delighted kids. | |
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| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_f9c3ecc6 | type |
Series Fauxnale | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_f9c3ecc6 | comment |
Series Fauxnale: Was written and intended to be the final chapter in Michael and Laurie's story and the ultimate end to the Halloween saga. invokedExecutive Meddling and the later sequel had different ideas. | |
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Bittersweet 17 | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_fa08bcdd | comment |
Bittersweet 17: Laurie has a "Eureka!" Moment when she realises that Michael killed Judith at seventeen, tried to kill her at that age and likely is coming after John now that he's turned seventeen. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: The subtitle, considering on how H20 already means that it has been twenty years from the first film's events. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_fd497706 | comment |
Accidental Murder: Will, who is in a panic about Michael, shoots someone wearing a hoodie he presumes to be Michael when in fact it is Ronnie. He is pretty shaken up about it. Apparently Ronnie survives and the bullet only grazed him, but why he would be knocked unconscious in a pool of blood with a mere graze is not explained, making the twist feel pretty contrived. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: A minor gag early in the film is Ronnie reading cheesy romance stories he's written to his wife over the phone. In the climax, he can be seen on the phone with her excitedly saying he's going to write a romantic thriller. | |
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