BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER.

20 years after first encountering the murderous Michael Myers, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finds that adulthood and a nice job still can’t protect her from him.

Curtis came up with the idea for this seventh film in the series, an homage to the original done in the style of Scream (1996). She is good as Laurie; the Myers experience has turned her into a paranoid drunk, but she is also now the principal of a school and the mother of a teenager.

The supporting cast is fun to watch, including Janet Leigh, Curtis’s mother… but the script offers nothing new. 

1998-U.S. 85 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by Steve Miner. Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode/Keri Tate), Adam Arkin (Will Brennan), Josh Hartnett (John Tate), Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Janet Leigh, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 

Trivia: Followed by Halloween: Resurrection (2002).