USA, 1998
85m
Super 35mm, color by DeLuxe, 2.35:1
DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS, English
An American horror film directed by Steve Miner. Made to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), it ignores any of the films from Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) onwards and marks the return to the series of Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Plot Summary
Twenty years after Michael Myers escaped from psychiatric hospital and went on a killing spree in Haddonfield, Illinois, his sister Laurie Strode is trying to lead a normal life under a new name having survived her brother’s night of terror. But now Michael is back and stalking Laurie and her teenaged son John at his boarding school – and Laurie finally has to stand up to her murderous brother once and for all…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Steve Miner
© 1998 Miramax Film Corp.
A Dimension Films release. Moustapha Akkad presents. A Nightfall production of a Steve Miner film. Released by Dimension a division of Miramax Films
Executive Producers: Moustapha Akkad
Co-executive Producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Williamson
Produced by: Paul Freeman
Associate Producer: Malek Akkad
Screenplay by: Robert Zappia and Matthew Greenberg
Story by: Robert Zappia
Based on characters created by Debra Hill and John Carpenter
Director of Photography: Daryn Okada
Film Editor: Patrick Lussier
Music by: John Ottman
Sound Mixer: Jim Tanenbaum
Costume Designer: Deborah Everton
Key Make-up Artist: Tania McComas
Key Hair Stylist: Voni Hinkle
Special Effects Make-up: James MacKinnon, Thomas E. Surprenant, Jeff Himmel
Digital Matte Effects Created by: Digital Firepower, Hollywood, California
Digital Visual Effects by: OCS/Freeze Frame/Pixel Magic; Rainmaker Digital Pictures, Digiscope
Production Designer: John Willett
Cast
Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode/Keri Tate)
Adam Arkin (Will Brennan)
Michelle Williams (Molly [Cartwell])
Adam Hann-Byrd (Charlie [Roswell])
Jodi Lyn O’Keefe (Sarah [Thompson])
Janet Leigh as Norma [Crane]
Branden Williams (Tony [Allegre])
Nancy Stephens ([Nurse] Marion [Wittington])
Beau Billingslea (Fitz)
Josh Hartnett (John [Strode/John Tate])
LL Cool J (Ronny [Jones])
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jimmy [Howell]
Matt Winston (Matt)
Larisa Miller (Claudia)
Emmalee Thompson (Casey)
David Blanchard (waiter)
John Cassini (cop #1)
Jody Wood (cop #2)
Lisa Gay Hamilton (Shirl)
Chris Durand (Michael Myers)
Tom Kane (voice over)
Alternative Titles
Halloween 7
Halloween H20 – advertising title
Halloween H20 (20 Years Later) – alternative spelling
Halloween 7: The Revenge of Laurie Strode – working title
Halloween: The Revenge of Laurie Strode – working title
Links
Sequel to
Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween 5 (1989)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Sequel
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
See also
Carrie (1976)
Psycho (1960)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Scary Movie (2000)
Scream 3 (2000)
Includes extracts from
Halloween (1978)
Plan Nine from Outer Space (1958)
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Extracts included in
2nd Annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 Summer Blockbuster Review (1998)
References
Periodicals
- Empire October 1998 p.45 – note
- Empire November 1998 p.36 – illustrated review (by Kim Newman)
- Film Review November 1998 p.19 – illustrated review (by Grant Kempster)
- Shivers no.58 p.5 – review
Newspapers
- Correio da Manhã 19 March 1999 – review (by Vitoriano Rosa)
- Diário de Notícias 4 March 1999 – review (by Marcos Cruz)
- Diário de Notícias 19 March 1999 – review (by Eurico De Barros)
- Diário de Notícias, DNmais 20 March 1999 – review (by João Antunes)
- Expresso, Cartaz 20 March 1999 – review (by Jorge Leitão Ramos)
- Expresso, Cartaz 27 March 1999 – review (by Francisco Ferreira)
- Svenska Dagbladet 6 November 1998 – review (Det räcker bra med föregångaren by Astrid Söderbergh Widding)
Books
- Anatomy of the Slasher Film: A Theoretical Analysis by Sotiris Petridis pp.69-71, 75, 76, 80, 115, 138, 142, 149
- The Films of the Nineties: A Complete, Qualitative Filmography of Over 3000 Feature-Length English Language Films, Theatrical and Video-Only, Released Between January 1, 1990, and December 31, 1999 by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn L. Nowlan p.236
- Horror Films of the 1990s by John Kenneth Muir pp.556-559
- Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter (2nd Edition) by Robert C. Cumbow pp.73; 279-280
- The Pocket Essential Slasher Movies by Mark Whitehead p.71
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film Sequels, Series, and Remakes by Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester 2 p.107-108
