Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Lyn O'Keefe.
Rated R for graphic violence, language, minor sexual situations and gore.
Running Time: 90 minutes.

Director Steve Miner ("Friday the 13th, Part III", "Forever Young") uses his similar, stylish tactics of his early 1980's "Friday the 13th" thrillers in this exceptional sequel. Now twenty years after the original Halloweens took place (basically forgetting sequels 3-6, thank God), Michael Myers returns to inflict even more terror on Laurie (reprised by scream-queen Jamie Lee Curtis in a fine performance). Laurie struggles to put the fear of Michael away, even after two decades have passes since that dreadful night her deranged brother returned to Haddonfield, Illinois to kill her.

An alcoholic headmistress of her graduating son's (played by Josh Hartnett) private school, Laurie dreads the upcoming infamous fall holiday. With the support from love interest Arkin ("Chicago Hope"), Laurie is coerced to believe that nothing bad is going to happen--until the dead bodies start to pile up. As Laurie attempts to save her son from the horrific monster that is Myers, school security guard LL Cool J comes to the rescue. The battle between good and evil leads to an exceptional climax in which Laurie takes on Michael herself in order to end the mayhem once and for all.

While not up to the caliber of the original, "Halloween: H20" makes up for the unfortunate loss of Dr. Loomis (played by Donald Pleasance, who passed away after during filming of the previous sequel) with excellent supporting roles from the charismatic LL Cool J and the underrated Arkin. Full of chills and thrills, Steve Miner does a fine job setting up the shocks with his deliberate use of camera angles and a frightening musical score. The opening scene is perhaps one of the most terrifying of all time. One of the better slasher films of the "Scream" era.

after halloween 2 jamie lee curtis decited to stop making horror movies she went on to be famous but twenty years after she started acting in halloween she decited to make halloween h20 part seven but they made this a great movie thhey completle ignored part three through part six and went on to continue the story line in halloween and halloween 2 it is a really good movie it is the second best sequel halloween 2 is the best sequel

The 7th installment of the Halloween series called "H2O" is a vastly overrated horror movie. "H2O" starst out with the audience being re-introduced to Laurie Strode, the sister of Michael Myers. The viewer discovers she has a punk son and that she is teaching at a university in California. But, it's 20 years later and Halloween, so we know that Michael Myers is right around the corner, right? Wrong, Myers has to drive 2000 miles to get to his sister while stopping at a rest area to use the restroom in the Men's room there.

It's interesting that Michael Myers, being the social deviant and killer that he is, would observe a social rule such as going to the appropriate restroom rather than go to the ladies room or just do his business in the woods...just seems out of character for such an evil entity as Myers. Nevertheless, Myers finds his sister and he kills a lot of people (with some good kill scenes) to get to her and then we have this face off between Myers and Laurie Strode in which Laurie Strode seems to be portrayed as a heroine and almost not afraid of Myers anymore. In fact, it appears she wants to do battle with Myers so that she can kill Myers and be done with him once and for all.

The fact that there is such a physical struggle between Myers and Laurie Strode dimishes the prowess of Myers as an powerful, evil and murdering being.

There are many flaws with this movie. First, the "Halloween" theme perfected in "Halloween I & II" is completely lacking in this movie as it was in parts 4-6. Second, the movie takes place in California and the notorioius Haddonfield with its rich Halloween history is taken completely out of the picture and I think this takes away from the movie. Third, Michael Myers looks and acts ridiculously in this movie and at times seems almost physically challenged in a way by Laurie Strode which is certainly inconsistent with the previous sequels. Fourth, Laurie Strode cuts Michael Myers's head off in the end (although we find out that was not MM in the next movie). Still, the ending of the movie leaves a bad taste in your mouth as well. Fifth, the acting was subpar except for Jaimie Lee Curtis, although I was disappointed in her for doing this trash.

All and all, this is a very poor movie which is no better or worse than parts 5, 6 and 8 of this series. "H2O" fails miserably as a horror movie and disappoints from beginning to end. In fact, "Halloween III" is considerably better than this movie because part 3 keeps the "Halloween theme" alive and this movie along with parts 4-8 completely fail to do that. My recommendation is to avoid this one and stick with the Halloween parts 1-3.

I'll say this now, this truly isnt a fair review. I'm a huge fan of the original Halloween, and have been desperately praying for a decent sequal (after the 2nd), and I hadn't quite gotten one yet. Most of them were just killing the whole time, the sequals that is, which really wasn't the whole point of Halloween. The whole point was for it to slowly build up to an exciting conclusion, to reach out and pull you towards the edge of your scene, and to prove that horror movies could be scary without blood and a gigantic budget.
I'll be honest, this movie is shallow. It really isn't nearly as good as the original (with its hilarously corny script and lough out loud acting, which made it so great), because, well, it's not low budget.
I know what your saying: What the hell am I talking about?
Well you see, now that he has the money, John Carpenter is trying to make his movies more explosive, which really wasn't the original Halloween was about (which I've said about 4.27518 times). Still, it did try to build up to an exiting conclusion, and Jamie Lee Curtis is still dazzling and cathy on the screen, so why not, I'll give it a three. Still, that's only for a long time fan, who has desperately seen horrible pieces of crap branding the Halloween name, so for those out there who aren't hardcore fans, rent it first. Otherwise, Halloween fans should love it.

I have this Halloween movie, and I love my favorite out of the whole series, i watch like 100 times, very smart halloween sequel and alot of exciting moments 5.0/5.0 9/10 Get this Halloween sequel