Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is a 1998 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, and Josh Hartnett. It is the seventh installment in the Halloween franchise. Retconning the "Thorn Trilogy" story arc of the previous three installments, H20 is a direct sequel to the first two films and follows a post-traumatic Laurie Strode, who has faked her death in order to go into hiding from her brother, Michael Myers, who finds her working at a private boarding school in California. Released in the United States on August 5, 1998, Halloween H20 grossed $75 million worldwide on a budget of $17 million, and received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with many considering it to be the best sequel in the series. A sequel, Halloween: Resurrection, was released four years later.
Director | Steve Miner |
Produced by | Paul Freeman |
Screenplay by | Robert Zappia, Matt Greenberg |
Story by | Robert Zappia, Kevin Williamson, (uncredited) |
Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Janet Leigh, Josh Hartnett, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Music | John Ottman, Marco Beltrami |
Cinematography | Daryn Okada |
Edited by | Patrick Lussier |
Production, company | Dimension Films, Nightfall Productions, Trancas International |
Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Released | August 5, 1998 |
Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17 million |
Box office | $75 million |
Netflix ID | 16915002 |
About Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Slasher film and seventh installment in the Halloween franchise which sees a post-traumatic Laurie Strode fake her own death and start over as a headmistress of a boarding school in northern California as a way to hide from Michael Myers.
Achievement of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
The film is a direct sequel to Halloween and Halloween II. The sequel to it was released in 2002 and called Halloween: Resurrection.
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