John Carpenter (creator of the original 1978 horror classic "Halloween") must be doing one of two things: a) laughing his head off at this bore of a horror film and enjoying the royalties, or b) kicking himself for not doing it himself. The only thing that allowed me to survive the 90 minutes of sheer boredom was hearing Carpenter's original "Halloween" score, albeit transplanted from the original, being played over and over.
That's right, the movie is only 90 minutes long, and (not including the pre -credit sequence murders that try to get the proverbial ball rolling) not one person dies until an hour in. But there are plenty of Kevin Williamson -style false scares (he doctored the script and served as exec-producer) but they get old really fast. Janet Leigh (of "Psycho" fame) makes a cute little cameo to play the maternal character to real-life daughter Jamie Lee Curtis for a scene, but she really serves no purpose to the film.
The bulk of the movie takes place at the prep school Curtis runs which is situated out in the middle of the boondocks--perfect place for Michael Myers to get a few more practice killings in, right? Hence, all those false scares. And there is the little introduction of Curtis having changed her name and no one knowing her relation to the Michael Myers murders, except her son does know and it doesn't really factor in.
"H20" was originally scheduled to have the traditional Halloween opening but it was finished so fast they decided to push it up to summer so as to get a better chance of a profit. My advice: they should have spent more time on developing a truly scary script and taken their time making it. A lot of potential wasted there. And they would have had the perfect opening day, too. Halloween is on a friday this year.
That's right, the movie is only 90 minutes long, and (not including the pre -credit sequence murders that try to get the proverbial ball rolling) not one person dies until an hour in. But there are plenty of Kevin Williamson -style false scares (he doctored the script and served as exec-producer) but they get old really fast. Janet Leigh (of "Psycho" fame) makes a cute little cameo to play the maternal character to real-life daughter Jamie Lee Curtis for a scene, but she really serves no purpose to the film.
The bulk of the movie takes place at the prep school Curtis runs which is situated out in the middle of the boondocks--perfect place for Michael Myers to get a few more practice killings in, right? Hence, all those false scares. And there is the little introduction of Curtis having changed her name and no one knowing her relation to the Michael Myers murders, except her son does know and it doesn't really factor in.
"H20" was originally scheduled to have the traditional Halloween opening but it was finished so fast they decided to push it up to summer so as to get a better chance of a profit. My advice: they should have spent more time on developing a truly scary script and taken their time making it. A lot of potential wasted there. And they would have had the perfect opening day, too. Halloween is on a friday this year.