Halloween H20 (1998) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the killcam where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James Agee nice and today we're looking at Halloween h2o the seventh Halloween film released 20 years after the original in 1998 although h2o came out just three years after curse of michael myers.slc punk was a co EP on h2o and wrote an early draft of the screenplay in Williamson's original draft though h2o acknowledged all the previous films that all changed when Jamie Lee Curtis signed on to the project curtis's returned as Laurie Strode was a huge selling point for h2o and is probably what kept it from being a direct-to-video release because the franchise had gotten increasingly complicated silly and less lucrative with all the crap introduced in revenge and curse Curtis and director Steve miner who had helmed the first two Friday the 13th sequels sixteen years earlier decided to make h2o a direct sequel the Halloween - it would be the real Halloween 3 as they described it and thus we get our first split in the Michael Myers timeline in h2o parts 4 5 & 6 never happened and Laurie Strode daughter Jamie never existed so it's for that character and anyone who loved all the Thorne stuff I'm sure there are dozens of you but damn is h2o we're refreshing entry to the series it's back to basics yet again but this time with a healthy dose of humor and because of Scream's influence not only are the characters hip with quips but there's also a healthy dose of meta not only to previous Halloween films but also to the horror genre as a whole I'll admit the humor and meta stuff can be a little much sometimes but come on man at least it's better than this sadly with Donald Pleasance is passing this would be the first Michael Meyers film without Sam Loomis in hot pursuit but to be fair it is hard to imagine how the crazy doctor would fit in with the film that takes place on the campus of a California boarding school can Michael score more kills without loony Loomis chasin after him let's find out and get to them [Music] the movie begins with mr. Sandman playing over some pumpkin-carving helping to remind viewers that this movie is a direct sequel to Halloween - so yeah just keep in mind in this movie Laurie and Michael are still siblings but that's not the case in the new film coming out later this month wasn't it her brother who murdered all those babysitters yeah it was not her brother that's the main that people made up that movies a direct sequel to the original film only hits confusing I know but you got it we visit Langdon Illinois far from Haddonfield where chimney stack nurse Mary Ann Chambers makes her return to the series it's great because she's played by the same actor from Halloween's one-and-two Nancy Stephen today though she's running into some trouble apparently if her house has been broken into she enlists the help of two teenage hockey fans her neighbor Jimmy played by a young Joseph gordon-levitt and his buddy Tony a big fan of the Surgeon General hasn't anyone told you secondhand smoke kills yeah but they're all dead after calling the cops Jimmy heads over to check out Marian's house for himself using the immortal powers of youth Oh ends up doing though is stealing some beers and accidentally getting spooked enough to wreck the drying rack with his hockey stick yo ref you're gonna call slash in there or what he comes outside to tell MS chambers that everything's okay and in the process gives us a taste of the humor in this movie that in my opinion usually works oh and also they messed up your kitchen really bad too good night it's better than Barry kicks ass nurse chambers his office is racked with a picture of Sam Loomis knock-down and the files from her Laurie Strode folder missing that very specific burglaring is enough to send her running next door again because she ain't putting up with no boogeyman bullshit when she gets to Jimmy's house though she finds him dead in a lazy boy with an ice skate lodged deep into his face come on Radford that ain't a slashing penalty out of what is Marian runs through Jimmy's house of horrors only to find another corpse in the form of Tony whose dead body was somehow standing up right outside that door with a knife in his back I always think it's kind of dumb when horror movies have bodies act like haunted house props but maybe Michael was just holding the body up himself cuz don't look now but Holroyd he comin here e arms himself with a knife right as some cops arrive outside and even though Marian fights back with a fire poker she's unable to get the attention of the cops who are checking out her house next door despite her most valiant efforts ouch throat slit takes out a legacy Halloween character but at least she was a fighter to the end and let's be real if Michael hadn't gotten her all those cigarettes probably would have eventually anyway to add insult to injury Michael once again steals Marion chambers his car to make his escape the crime scene is investigated by Detective exposition who says that dr. Loomis had actually lived in this house under Marion's care until his natural death some time ago they go into Loomis's old office which is full of stuff he had been collecting ever since Michael Myers his body disappeared during the hospital fire 20 years ago speaking of which now's a good time for a title car 20 years later an opening credits sequence plays out over b-roll of all the stuff in Lewis's study as voice actor Tom Kane recites Donald Pleasence his speech about Michael Myers from the first film I met this six-year-old child the blackest eyes besides he does a pretty decent Loomis and fun fact Tom Kane also played Darwin in The Wild Thornberrys alongside Daniel Harris who voiced older sister Deborah the more you know let's get out of Langdon and head home to head and feel her nope sorry summer Glen California to the Hillcrest Academy High School where it's everyone's favorite holiday hallo fuckin word Laurie Strode has moved here and is living under the alias Kerry Tate with her 17 year old son John played by introducing Josh Hartnett although they both seem like pretty cool people they butt heads because she's overprotective especially around this time of year probably because she keeps having visions of Michael all the time because of her paranoia she's not letting John go on a school trip to Yosemite with the rest of his classmates that weekend but lucky for him various factors have made it so his girlfriend Molly played by Michelle Williams and their friend Sarah and Charlie aren't going either so they'll all be staying back on campus together what place would be empty could have the run of it have a rooming orgy though a man thinks has headmistress of this expensive ass boarding school Laurie strutted sorry Kerry Tate tells the rest of the student body to behave themselves in Yosemite no panky hanky or otherwise before sneaking into her office to make out with alan arkin son Adam Arkin plays will the school's guidance counselor but his counsel ain't the only thing Laura's been guided if you get my meaning later on they have a lunch date in town where she's unable to bring herself to tell him about her head in field history oh well if he can't get over your tragic past might as well chug chug chug keeping Laurie staff and students safe at Hillcrest as security guard Ronny played by LL Cool J and he's also an aspiring smut writer leading to two tumultuous yeah his wife's not exactly the biggest fan he's got to be better at slash fiction than security guarding though since he agrees to let John and Charlie sneak off campus so they can plan a romantic weekend with her ladies why you ain't followin those ll rules J in town John and his high school me looking friends shoplift a bottle of booze from a nearby liquor store way to hurt the local economy hudes and on their way back to Hillcrest they get cornered by Laurie who yells at them because they're not supposed to be off campus at all and on Halloween Day Laurie Strode ain't got no chill do you think you're doing John yells back at her and tells her that Michael Mars is dead get the fuck over it mom but sadly John doesn't know how wrong yes we check back in on Michael in Northern California where a mom is taking her daughter to a rest stop to pee functionally this scene is just here so Michael can trade Marion Chambers is messed up ride for this ladies weirdly old-fashioned whip but stylistically it's a really good scene of tension and suspense especially the way it uses the mothers point of view and how fearful she is for her daughter as a scary stranger steals our purse I think it's a great example of why h2o is a solid sequel even if you're not a fan of the Kevin Williamson liked dialogue Michael drives that shitty rust bucket to Hillcrest to scope out the security cinch and that sucks for Laurie because even someone with - I shot out could see that Ronny is just an LL Cool J don't worry Ronny that verbal flogging you're getting is totally worth it in the name of love because you helped Big John set up the perfect basement date for Molly this place looks like somewhere I'd play poker in high school I'd take my girlfriend to get a handy but huh whatever works I guess as Laura Kerry teaches our class about Frankenstein Molly repeats a beat from the original when she sees Michael out the window when Laurie calls on her and breaks Molly's concentration she's still able to do the final girl thing and answer the question correctly delivering a thematic message about confronting the monster that leaves her teacher frozen still until the bell rings as the other students leave Laurie thinks that she's doing her son a favor when she calls him over and gives him a permission slip for the Yosemite trip but it's too late for good parenting Care Bear this kid's got a Roman orgy plan an updated version of the classic theme plays as all the other Hillcrest kids board their school buses and leave campus for their Yosemite trip and now the place is good and under populated for the slasher ahead before we get to the Knights Affairs though we've got to have a meta textual moment with Laurie secretary Norma played by her real wife mom Janet Leigh if I could be maternal for a moment for extra fun the scene even starts with a quote from the original Halloween it's Halloween I guess everyone is entitled to one good scare Janet Leigh of course played the infamous psycho shower victim Marion crane who yes the nurse from these movies was named after Horrors a very incestuous genre normal wishes carry well and then heads off to trade in her Ford main line as echos of the psycho score play oh mistake happy Halloween sure it's super meta but I enjoyed the scene as an homage to one of the Great's that night Ronnie finds Michael stolen truck smoking outside the school gate and since this is a smoke-free campus he can't help but take a closer look while he's inside the vehicle though a real LL Cool J sneaks behind him and now the campuses security has officially been breached I like this movie but that was a real dumb character moment and the only purpose was to get Michael inside the school pretty lazy in any case he's there now and Laurie sees him as she's closing up shop for the night we get one of those ambiguous was that just an illusion or was he really there moments when will ends up running into Laurie instead but after she leaves will does in fact spot Michael over there so yeah he's definitely walking around and now if you'll excuse me I'd like to nitpick like a real big nerd consider this scene yes that's a clip from scream 2 seems like a fine thing for these high school girls to be watching right but wait a minute what if they had done a double feature that night and watched the original screen before the sequel you know they would have seen what shot Jim you know he's a dude look behind you behind you yeah dude they would have seen Malibu's Most Wanted watching a scene with her headmistress in a movie that's still canon in this timeline yeah don't make tain again it's nitpicky but it also like blows up the fabric of space-time in this universe so it's always bugged me a little bit whatever though that's actually not even the craziest thing in the scene because it has this exchange Joe to join us I can't I'm I'm having my nipples pierced ah I know the humor of this movie doesn't work for everyone but I think the actors sell these lines enough for me to enjoy the teens are having a real fire hazardous evening together with a romantic meal to get them in the mood consisting of school cafeteria leftovers meanwhile Lorien will skip the foreplay and get straight to lip smacking more he puts the lovemaking on hold to finally tell will about her past and here we get some lines that I'm not such a big fan of my brother killed my sister when she was 17 Wow that's lucky yo dude take her seriously she's got her serious face on he does eventually and when he asks how old she was when everything went down war he freaks out because she realizes that she was the same age then that John is now in his bedroom she finds his o7 tea bag as evidence that he never actually left campus and that's enough cause for her to pull out a Loomis style handgun from under her pillow and spring into action Charlie and Sarah are having a real Crispin Glover problem tonight they've got a bottle of booze but no corkscrew a fast thinker Charlie hops into the dumbwaiter to go to the upstairs kitchen and look for one there it's like an updated version of Part fives laundry chute mechanic I like it but before Charlie can yells head where the hell's the corkscrew a shape appears behind him and sadly this shape has a CGI mask what yeah dude it had to do with reshoots and shit but wow he looks like he wandered out of A Scanner Darkly cel-shaded or not Mike still manages to kill Charlie's and Sarah finds his corpse in the dumbwaiter with his throat slit pretty friggin deep there obviously done with a jagged corkscrew instead of your standard chef's knife Michael appears in a doorway and in an effort to escape him Sarah snuggles up to her dead boyfriend and rides the dumbwaiter up giving Michael the chance to repeat a shot from Part 5 as she's climbing out upstairs though Michael cuts the pulley system-- out from the dumbwaiter causing it to fall and crush her leg just snapping that boy real bad good thinking there Mike with their movement marred Sarah's unable to crawl away from Michael when he comes upstairs and he kills her as she pleads for her life with at least four stabs to the back using his standard murder night although the kill is mostly off-screen we do get to see a body shortly when John and Molly opened the pantry to find Sara's corpse strung up like Casey Becker her insides on the outside John and Molly look over to see Michael doing his head tale thing so they get the heck out of there but Michael catches up and almost sticks Molly with his knife before John stops in from that white knighting John gets a knife in the leg but Molly stops Michael with a rock and the teen lovers managed to get away of course without bothering to double tap the guy trying to kill them has in many Halloween films they find themselves stuck behind a locked door as the shape approaches Michael slashes at them through a gate for a while before grabbing the keys Molly dropped to get inside but before he can find the right one John and Molly are saved by Laurie who shares an iconic shot with Michael through this porthole window I mean this shit was literally in every trailer it's the definitive shot of this movie but as she's getting her gun out to kill him Michael plays an old standard and disappears from sight more he puts her son and his girlfriend in a closet and tells them sternly to stay put do as I say now sounds like a plan Laurie but too bad you've got trigger-happy will with you to take your gun away and shoot at what he thinks to be the shade turns out it was just Ronny though here her lucky the same beige of social media will or else your ass would be a hashtag right now but instead of hash his ass is grass and here comes lawn mower Michael the stab will in the back with his knife Michael kills will by lifting him up off the ground as Laurie runs away kind of echoing the park to nurse Karen kill Pam Michael's got fewer moves to him than a friggin Soul Calibur character Laurie gets the kids and they all run off as Michael does what Michael does Mobley chasing after that the lady's load the injured John into an SUV as Michael stalks after them in a scene where his mass keeps alternating between the two different versions they use during shoots they manage to get away but when they reached the gate Laurie tells the kids to carry on without her while quoting even more dialogue from the original I want you to drive down the street through the Becker's the mile down the road tell them to call an ambulance to get the police now you already referenced that line though like we get it the original had a bunch of dialogue we all know but we don't need to hear every last bit of it regurgitated regardless of her repetition the kids do as she says and they leave Laurie alone on campus so she can ax herself up like a boy going to his first middle school dance with our final act all set up Laurie heads back to the school to confront her murderous brother Michael eventually shows up with a real sweet negative one arm to get behind Lori so they can have a slash off we'll call round one and draw but Lori takes round two with a flagpole to the chest round three is in the kitchen where Lori misses a bunch of knife tosses at Michael but successfully defends against his own retaliatory strike we are deep in final girls circuit territory at this point and you all know the words to this song the cool thing here is just how much of a fighter Lori is as she eventually stabs Michael a ton of times in the chest and knocks him over a second-story balcony to crash through a table below unfortunately you when she goes down there to finish him off for good she's interrupted by a still living Rani who what survived a gunshot to the head LL Cool J must have a damn good agent emergency vehicle show up and Michael gets put in a body bag but if you think that's the end of this I've got a fucking bridge to sell you cuz Lori's not leaving this one of the authorities and goes the full Sam Loomis in order to hijack the coroner's van and drive us to this movies finale as she speeds along the California Highway the body in the bag behind her starts coming back to life just as she suspected and after he gets out he goes to attacker but Laurie slams on the brakes and sends the man in the mask flying out through the windshield she waits for him to do the standard Michael Myers sit up before revving up the van and imitating Rachel's part4 attempt at the Hitler homicide so many references the stunts ends both of them and the van all tumbling down the hill together with the shape getting the short end of the stick when the van smashes him against the fallen tree Morey recovers as the van catches fire but she knows better than to trust a fire to kill Michael Myers Fumi walks you know and so she grabs the fire axe and heads over to confront Michael she finds him pawing at his mask in a weird way and he even tries to reach out a hand towards her in an attempt to make peace or something but that shit ain't gonna work on Laurie fuckin strode so after briefly eating with him she takes that axe and cuts his freakin head off yeah Wow okay so here's what we're gonna do I'm account this as a half kill right now and it'll make more sense next video I promise like it's definitely a kill but there's further explanation to it so just take my word right now needless to say though this was a shocking way to end the movie and in my opinion it would have made for an excellent end to the franchise but like all good horror franchises Halloween just didn't know when to quit always got to be adding kills you know let's see how many this entry added and get to the numbers [Music] hmm that's some good h2o there were six and a half kills in Halloween h2o and I promised that'll make at least a little more sense next video the victims included four and a half dudes and two ladies giving us this pretty standard pie chart and with a runtime of 86 minutes we wound up with a kill on average every 12 point two nine minutes I'll give the golden chainsaw for coolest skill - Jimmy yeah it was done off screen but it was with an ice skate that's something kind of new Plus who doesn't want to see Tommy Solomon with a skate in his snarky face - almost ready for lamest kill we'll go to Jimmy's buddy Tony cuz I hate that stupid corpse standing behind a door trow be better or movies and that's it Halloween h2o came out in 1998 20 years after the original and was the first Halloween sequel to make as much money as the original that meant the Myers fire was hot when they cooked up resurrection which I'll cover next week until then I'm James Agee nice this has been the kill count thanks a lot for watching this week's kill count I want to thank a couple of patrons like christopher alden anthony stamps monica Diaz and kobu pan I'm just so thirsty after a corn night kill con I could just [Music] whoo yeah record another one of these right now I'm gonna have to pee thanks I'll pee good people be good people

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Keywords: split, steve miner, horror, alternate, kill count, movies, james a. janisse, kevin williamson, marion chambers, body count, seven, ll cool j, scream, halloween 7, janet leigh, joseph gordon-levitt, laurie strode, california, kills, pine commander boogie, scary, h2o, jaj, 7th halloween, water, dead meat, adam arkin, timeline, psycho, DMKC, michelle williams, josh hartnett, nurse, franchise, h20, retcon, series, llcoolj, adam hann-byrd, continuity, films, jamie lee curtis

Id: jLxhI7zIxNU

Length: 18min 10sec (1090 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 05 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/ServalSpots]

Man, this episode's joke game is on point

[u/mariop715]

I always wrote off them watching Scream 2 as that universe's Scream having Meeks either watch a different horror film or having had Halloween been very similar to Stab (in that they made a movie off an actual killing and answering how Will would know the name of a spree killer twenty years earlier).

[u/Khalbrae]

Stellar work!

Funny how one of the better Halloweens would be the most derivative though.

[u/EthanHughes124]

Can u do a timetable of kill counts you'll be covering after the evil dead series I just like the thought of knowing and being excited

[u/Guer1234]

My favorite episode