Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guest Scott Mendelson, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This year, we are running a season looking at the films in the Halloween franchise. So this week, Steve Miner’s Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later.
Two decades after the horrific Halloween night in which Michael Myers returned to Haddenfield, Laurie Strode finds herself desperately trying to put her life back together under an assumed name at an elite private school. Raising her son, Laurie is still haunted by the trauma of that night twenty years ago, unaware that a Shape is lumbering through the darkness directly towards her.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 1st October 2023.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Buy Taking Shape by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins at Amazon.com.
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- Robert Zappia’s draft of Halloween 7: Two Faces of Evil, July 1997.
- Patrick Lussier talks to JoBlo about the heavy rewrites of Halloween H20, May 2019.
- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to Variety about her involvement with Halloween H20, June 2018.
- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to Entertainment Weekly about her biggest regrets concerning Halloween H20, October 2018.
- Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant looks back at how John Carpenter almost directed Halloween H20, January 2020.
- Mike Holtz at Bloody Disgusting surveys the pre-Scream horror movie landscape, November 2021.
- Edison Smith at VHS Revival considers how dramatically Scream changed the game for nineties horror, August 2021.
- Sam Stone at Comic Book Resources considers how Scream saved the slasher genre, January 2022.
- Scott Tobias at The Reveal considers the rise and immediate fall of the late nineties slasher revival, January 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the post-postmodern slasher boom, October 2023.
- Edison Smith at VHS Revival considers how Halloween H20 was heavily influenced by Scream, June 2020.
- Trace Truman at Bloody Disgusting reports on the decision to use Marco Beltrami’s Scream, Scream 2 and Mimic scores for Halloween H20, December 2016.
- Kevin Williamson talks to The Los Angeles Times about moving from Scream to Halloween H20, August 1998.
- Kevin Williamson looks back with Variety on the influence and legacy of Dawson’s Creek, January 2023.
- Daniel Dimanna at ScreenRant argues for Steve Miner as an unsung hero of horror cinema, August 2021.
- Mara Backman at ScreenRant reports on Mike Myers’ aborted cameo from Halloween H20, February 2021.
- Brian Collins at Fangoria considers the branching timelines of the Halloween franchise, October 2022.
- Jim Vorel at Paste Magazine considers the various Halloween timelines, September 2022.
- Scott Mendelson discusses “pop culture amnesia” at The Wrap, December 2022.
- Josh Hartnett talks to The Guardian about his life and career, October 2020.
- CBS News considers how ladies do, in fact, love Cool James, September 2008.
- Adrienne Tyler at ScreenRant considers why Michael Myers could not die at the end of Halloween H20, December 2021
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