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Directed by Steve Miner
Written by Robert Zappia and Matt Greenberg
Starring:
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode / Keri Tate
- Josh Hartnett as John
- Adam Arkin as Will Brennan
- Michelle Williams as Molly
- Jodi Lyn O’Keefe as Sarah
- Janet Leigh as Norma
- LL Cool J as Ronny
Rating: 
More commemorative product than organic sequel, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later still ends up being one of the franchise’s most watchable chapters. Twenty years after surviving Michael Myers, Laurie Strode—played with jittery determination by Jamie Lee Curtis—has reinvented herself as a California boarding-school headmistress living under a fake identity. The film’s tight runtime keeps things lean while the influence of Kevin Williamson injects a dose of Scream-era meta wit. But what makes the movie click is its focus on Laurie’s long-brewing reckoning with her trauma rather than just another masked killing spree. Steve Miner gives the film slick momentum, and the sunlit setting creates a strangely intoxicating tension between suburban calm and lurking horror. The finale delivers the rarest thing in slasher cinema: a genuine sense of closure.
