Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) (Unrated Producer's Cut)

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Originally Posted by ambient_indie

The advantage Jamie Lee Curtis has now then back in 1998 is that they're not dealing with the Weinstein controlled Miramax/Dimension company hot off their hit film Scream.

They tried to make H20 into a self-referencing teen slasher, replacing John Ottman with Marco Beltrami's jump stings, but halloween is not that. I think Blumhouse and David Gordon Green are going to bring the goods. And Curtis finally has John Carpenter on board. So I think at the least it'll be interesting.

There were reasons why Scream, and subsequently, H20 were box office hits.

Scream stayed true to the formula of the early "whodunit" slashers while adding post modern, self aware sensibilities to a genre that had become riddled with cliches.

H20 took that formula and added tried and true dramatic elements that were present in the more high brow, procedural driven horror films of the era.

What were the other horror revivals doing at the time? TCOMM put a magic wielding cult in control of Michael. Jason Goes to Hell gave us mystical knives and a demonic, Krang-like, body hopping monster. And New Nightmare told us all previous encounters with Freddy weren't real and only existed as movies. I'm all for sequels trying new things, but they all just took their new ideas too far. All of these were, also, financially not very successful.