The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: December 17 - 24, 1998

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2 stars and a half

Halloween H20

(Dimension)

This 20th-anniversary issue is an efficient exercise, with Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode, along with the archetypal victim of violence, her Psycho mother, Janet Leigh, in a teasing but substanceless cameo. Laurie now realizes what we knew all along: Michael Meyers is back. Unfortunately, the film's chief dynamic lies in who does or doesn't get it.

As for what evil lurks behind that death-white mask, maybe in another 20 years we'll actually find out.

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