Taglines: 20 years ago, HE changed the face of Halloween. Tonight, he’s back!
Halloween H20 movie storyline. On Halloween in 1963, Michael Myers murdered his sister, Judith. In 1978, he broke out to kill his other sister, Laurie Strode. He killed all of her friends, but she escaped. A few years later, she faked her death so he couldn’t find her. But now, in 1998, Michael has returned and found all the papers he needs to find her. He tracks her down to a private school where she has gone under a new name with her son, John. And now, Laurie must do what she should have done a long time ago and finally decided to hunt down the evil one last time.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is a 1998 American slasher film and the seventh installment in the Halloween film series. Directed by Steve Miner, the story was developed and created by Robert Zappia. The screenplay was written by Zappia and Matt Greenberg. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode with additional roles played by Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Janet Leigh, Josh Hartnett, LL Cool J and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film was released on August 5, 1998, to mark the 20th anniversary of the original Halloween (1978).
It is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s Halloween and Halloween II and retcons the events that transpired in the fourth, fifth, and sixth installments, rendering them as non-canon in this film. Set twenty years after the events of the first two movies, H20 centers on a post-traumatic Laurie Strode living in fear of Michael Myers, who attempted to kill her all those years ago. When Michael eventually appears, Laurie must face evil one last time, while the life of her teenage son hangs in the balance.
In terms of total gross, Halloween H20 is the second highest-grossing film in the Halloween franchise, behind Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake of the original. It was released on August 5, 1998 in the US and later in many other countries. H20 cost $17 million to produce and returned over $85 million in domestic box office sales with an opening weekend of $26,187,724. As for video/DVD rentals, the film grossed over $21 million.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Directed by: Steve Miner
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Janet Leigh, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Josh Hartnett, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nancy Stephens, Larisa Miller
Screenplay by: Robert Zappia, Matt Greenberg
Production Design by: John Willett
Cinematography by: Daryn Okada
Film Editing by: Patrick Lussier
Costume Design by: Deborah Everton
Set Decoration by: Wanda ‘Beau’ Peterson
Art Direction by: Dawn Snyder
Music by: John Ottman, Jeremy Sweet, Marco Beltrami
MPAA Rating: R for terror violence/gore and language.
Distributed by: Dimension Films
Release Date: August 5, 1998
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