THE RETURN(S) OF LAURIE STRODE: HALLOWEEN H20 VS. HALLOWEEN/KILLS/ENDS

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The Night HE Came Home… and SHE Came Back! (And then came back again!)

In 1998, after a downward spiral of increasingly inferior sequels, Jamie Lee Curtis returned to the role that made her a star with HALLOWEEN H20: TWENTY YEARS LATER. The backstory: Laurie Strode faked her death in order to escape her psychotic sibling, and is now living a fragile existence as an alcoholic, overly protective single mother and headmaster of a private California high school. (A move that pleased some fans and enraged others, since the events of the previous three installments are essentially ignored here.)

LAKE PLACID (1999) Blu-ray Review

Lake Placid (1999) d. Steve Miner (USA)

Ah, Black Lake, Maine, where women are shrill, heroes are dull, asses are smart, and the sailor-swearing incarnation of Betty White is born. Another high-profile 1999 Fox horror effort that failed to find an audience (see: Ravenous), TV heavyweight David E. Kelley’s (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal) quip-laden dialogue must have looked great on the page, but without several seasons to flesh them out, his quirky, snarky characters barely register as human beings.