Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later

"Oh, we've got a psychotic serial killer in the family who loves to butcher people on Halloween, and I just thought it in bad taste to celebrate."

- John Tate

Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later is a 1998 horror film of the slasher sub-genre. It was directed by Friday the 13th luminary Steve Miner and released theatrically in the United States on August 5th, 1998. It is the seventh film in the Halloween series and the sixth film to feature notorious serial killer Michael Myers. As the title suggests, Halloween H20 was released as part of the 20th anniversary of the franchise and brings back "scream queen" Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role as Laurie Strode from the first two films. Halloween H20 disregards the continuity set forth by the three previous films, which established that Laurie Strode had a daughter named Jamie Lloyd. It also abandons the normally ubiquitous setting of Haddonfield, Illinois and takes place at an exclusive boarding school called Hillcrest Academy in northern California. In the film, Laurie Strode has spent the past two decades living under the alias Keri Tate. She is the senior administrator at Hillcrest and has a son named John. Laurie never fully recovered from the trauma of being attacked by her psycotic brother Michael, but when Michael tracks her down after all this time, Laurie finds the inner strength to fight back and protect her son.

Notes & Trivia

 * Halloween H20 was released to DVD on October 19th, 1999.


 * This is the only film in the "Michael Myers" series that does not take place in Haddonfield, Illinois.


 * The scenes featuring Hillcrest Academy were shot at the Canfield-Moreno Estate, located at1923 Micheltorena Street, Silver Lake in Los Angeles, California. The estate was also used in the 2000 film Scream 3.


 * Steve Miner makes a cameo appearance as the School financial advisor.

"'I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding, even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.'"
 * The opening credits include a voice over of Donald Pleasence's character Sam Loomis from the original Halloween: