 
Laurie
(Jamie Lee Curtis) of course is all grown
up and a single mother with her name
changed to Kate Tate as her and her son
are living in the small town of Summer
Glen, California at the Hillcrest Academy
and is still being tormented by her
nightmares of Michael Myers and cringes
of her son being out on Halloween but her
son believes that Michael has been dead
for 20 years since the fire bombing at
the Haddonfield Hospital but Michael is
far from dead as he goes on a search to
kill his sister since she moved far away
from Haddonfield as she can.
However, Michael (Chris Durand) tracks
her down by finding information on her
whereabouts as she tried to one time fake
her death in a car crash.
Her son John (Josh Hartnett) and his
girlfriend Molly (Michelle Williams)
decide to throw a Halloween party while
the rest of the Hillcrest Academy heads
off on a field trip.
Michael heads to the Academy to try and
put away his sister Laurie/Kate and her
son John at the Academy and it's a finale
battle between Laurie/Kate and Michael to
see who will survive.
The beginning of this film seemed promising by showing the character Marion Chambers (Who was in part 1 & 2) appearing and realising that her house was broken into. Right away you have a feeling that Michael could be behind this in which the film brings on a nice suspenseful mystery.
There's some unfunny corny slapstick moments when she asks two delinquent kids to check out her house which the writing and performance here looked very stale. Yet, one of them wears a hockey mask which seems to pay a tribute to you know who.
The opening credits were classy showing a flowing misty feel to it which was effective and necessary for a flick taking place right after part 2. Then right afterwards, a thunderstorm occurs after a murderous incident with detectives and paramedics searching out a house with newspaper clippings on Myers and Laurie Strode which was a total classic by having all of this revealed along with discussing what happened to Loomis since it doesn't leave this film as an unsolved mystery.
Then we go to Laurie Strode waking up from the same nightmare when Michael tried to kill her that Halloween night which was impressive to the fans who remembered her as Michael's biological sister. I for sure got a kick out of that scene.
Next, we see her new lifestyle as a divorced Mom working as a headmistress at an academy behind a locked gate which makes you wonder if she's trying to keep safe after all these years and living miles away. To top it off she's a heavy drinker which you can't blame after what she's been through those past 20 years. I found that moment necessary to be thrown in showing how more paranoid that she is now and trying to lead a different life as well as disguising her name.
There's another creepy moment with Michael waiting near a washroom while a mother and daughter make a stop which seemed creepy wondering if something terrible will happen to them since the setting scene is too quiet along with Michael watching them and planning something.
Then the plotlines really fall into a slump since most of it takes place at the academy but there's some fun touches like Ms. Strode seeing hallucinations on Michael or when there's a heated rage by her to her son sneaking out of the academy and catching him on Halloween day and he tells her off saying that Michael is dead from that fire 20 years ago proving that this film ignored the other one's after part 2. Oh.. and there's a moment with two girls in their bedroom at the Academy watching one of the Scream movies which offered some good comedy scenarios since Scream was a tribute to those old school horror films like Halloween.
There's a great painful situation with a victim in the academy with her leg mangled while trying to escape from Michael and trying to stay alive and is pretty much helpless, making this scene very terrifying.
Plus there's impressive moments with Laurie telling her boyfriend who she really is and the story on Michael which was great to watch. Then the story really gives you the chills when she panicks thinking that Michael is still out there and finding a way to see if her son is okay as this was a nice psychological scene imagining if you were the worried parent and had a terrible incident before and then it comes back to haunt you.
Later on in the story there's some repeated lines that was used in the first film as well as Laurie ready to battle Michael and telling others to learn how to stay alive which really gives you the chills too wondering if the survivors will get killed off one by one.
The ending scene was the best in the film which really seems to close the page of the story after all these years of the sequels but then a few years later another sequel arose which was a disappointment even if it was a bit better than this one. Afterwards a Rob Zombie remake came out following sequels after that one.
To most fans though, they consider this one to be the last of it's kind.
Bottom line is, although many fans
said that this one was terrible I
disagreed but it could've been better I
must admit since most of it just takes
place at the Academy. Some of the
same producers from the recent sequel
helped out on this one too.
The film was on a bigger budget too.
It's great to see Jamie
Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode / Keri Tate) back since she
said goodbye to her scream queen fame
years ago. She still can pull off the
character and showed perfect aggression
too this time as a drunk. She also shows a great firm attitude along with showing a nice jumpy type of behavior. She shows a good serious strictness too. Basically she shows her experienced talent like she did in the bigger films she starred in much later.
Josh Hartnett (John Tate) did a great job
playing her only son in his first motion
picture as he pulls his part off
smoothly. He knew his stuff as a typical teenager pulling off wise ass remarks and really throwing in the punches when he gets to the point of things. He shows alot of fearful emotions when the terrors happens too.
Adam Arkin (Will Brennan) was quite charming as the headmaster at the academy by having an easygoing and bubbly type of personality. He made his role really likeable and believeable too. Plus he had the good looks to top it all off. Basically this guy is what you picture in a hunky type working at the schoolboard.
There is also rapper L.L. Cool J (Ronny Jones) as
a security officer bringing comedy to his
part as a hopeful writer. He really portrays as someone who is very outgoing too along with not really being on the ball with his job. He stood out very well for what he had to do throughout his whole scene's in the film. He showed some good hype without a doubt.
We also have a supporting role by
Jamie's mother Janet Leigh
(Norma Watson) in their second film together as they
both starred in The Fog back
in 1980 her character Norma Watson was
the same character used in Carrie
which P.J. Soles played as she
was in the original Halloween
film. She shows a nice lighthearted attitude and really shows a good open minded type of personality and happy behavior too. She really reminds you as one of those types who tries to encourage you to forget about the past.
Lots more graphic
violence than in the first two films.
A troublemaking teen has his face stabbed
by an ice skate
A teen at the Academy has his throat cut
open and his girfriends leg is mangled as
well she is hung later on by a lightbulb
hanging on a wire with her chest cut open
Michael is decapitated by an axe or so we
may all think in the end.
Steve Miner
improved a great deal since his debut
directing on Friday the 13th
Part 2 & 3.
His opening sequence leaves you a great
impression that Michael is not dead as he
is stalking the house of the nurse who
kept secrets on his biological sister
Laurie but first we have Nancy
Stephens reprising her role as Nurse
Marion Chambers returning to her home to
find out that someone broke into her
house which gives the story a good start
to it as she shows a nice nervous attitude along with talking to bit part actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a delinquent to check out her house which looked corny on how Miner directed this piece.
There's great panicking moments on Stephens trying to fight back against supporting actor Chris Durand as Michael Myers with some good fast action paced camera shots on the two of them.
A nice shot on Jamie Lee Curtis waking
up from a nightmare and screaming her
lungs out.
We have a creepy moment with supporting
cast members performed by Larissa
Miller and Emmalee Thompson
as mother and daughter using a washroom
in which Miller does well acting frightened and then there's a nice dark shot on Chris Durand entering
the washroom as Michael Myers as you
wonder if these two will be okay.
Curtis does a good job by scolding Josh Hartnett for being smart alecky towards her which looked like a realistic mother to son chastising.
There is also a good aggressive dialogue
with Curtis towards Josh
Hartnett acting aggressive and
vulgar towards him for leaving the school
fearing for his life. Hartnett
does well telling her off saying that
Michael is dead and time to move on. All of this was very high energised.
There's a good blocking shot on Curtis suddenly being taken by surprise on supporting actress Janet Leigh as well as a nice sympathetic speaking on Leigh trying to cheer her up which looked incredibly convincing.
There's a nice shot on
Adam Hann-Byrd trying to reach in from a corkscrew in a garbage disposal with a shot on Durand slowly walking up behind him making this look spooky.
There's a great suspenseful shot on supporting actress Jodi Lynn-O'Keefe sliding on the ground with her mangled leg panicking in pain trying to espcae with a good camera looking up on Durand ready to do her in.
We have a nice setting between Curtis
and Adam Arkin
when they are snuggling with one another
as she tries to tell him who she really
is and about the Myers incident by talking in a nice and calm voice and then getting a little emotional too which really looked great and sympathetic like.
Curtis does well by panicking and
trying to make a call to see if her son
is okay and Arkin trying to calm her down which also looked well directed.
Lots of great action sequences at the
Halloween party when Durand goes on a killing
spree at the Academy while Curtis and the others try to get away from him as this almost looked intense and powerful.
There's a good camera shot on Durand staring at Curtis through a door
window with Curtis showing a
suspenseful expression.
A good shot on Curtis standing
in a driveway at the academy screaming
Michael's name.
Miner was a bit rough with a shot on Curtis about to plunge a knife on Durand and L.L. Cool J. stops her which could've loked a bit more convincing and energised.
Miner does a great job directing Curtis in a wooded area and things are still saying Michael's name in a good serious fashion. Also, the very ending with Curtis and Durand is bone chilling too
with great camera shots on the two of them about to touch hands towards one another.
John Carpenter's
theme is used during the ending of this
flick but the rest of the music was
composed by John Ottman with
additional music by Marco Beltrami.
Although they tried to make it sound
updated for that time period it was
nowhere near as effective. There's alot of nice echoey violin and trobone music sounding quite powerful and fast paced. Also we hear the odd heavy drum booming dsound for the surprising moments too.
There is also a songtrack
during the beginning of "Mr.
Sandman" by the Chordettes
as it was used in part 2 so the viewers
will know for a fact this one was a
direct sequel to that one. The song was
also played while Laurie Strode turns on
her car radio.
We also have a hit song by Creed
titled "What's This Life For"
during the Halloween party at the Academy
as well as "Happy" by Sabelle.
[Holding
a Hockey Stick]
Jimmy Howell: Jimmy's been suspended five
times this year all ready for gettin' a
little crazy with the stick.
Ronny:
Ah, Fuck Me Shit.
Ronny:
Has anyone ever told you second-hand
smoke kills?
Nurse Marion: Yes, but they're all dead.
[Fitz
decides to contact Haddonfield about
Michael Myers]
Det. Matt Sampson: Yeah, you tell them to
look for a guy with a cane and
Alzheimer's.
Fitz: The guy would be younger than I am,
okay? I was 15 when he killed his sister
back in '63.
Keri: How
about you? Are you tired of my bullshit?
Will: I'm a counselor; I'm attracted to
it.
John:
Because today is the day. I can feel it.
Today is the day you are going to realize
that I am seventeen years old and your
overprotection and paranoia is inhibiting
my growing process.
Keri:
Okay, John. I know that you get your
smart mouth from my side of the family,
so I'll cut you a break.
[about
shoplifting a bottle of alcoholic drink]
John: I can't believe we're doing this.
Charlie: Desperate measures.
John: It's illegal.
Charlie: It's harmless and expected.
John:
Mom, I am not responsible for you. That's
it, I've had enough. I can't take it
anymore mom. He's dead. Michael Myers is
dead.
John: If
you want to stay handcuffed to your dead
brother, that's fine. But your not
dragging me along. Not anymore.
Norma:
Oh. Miss Tate. I didn't mean to make you
jump. It's Halloween. I guess everyone's
entitled to one good scare.
Keri: I've had my share.
Sarah:
Paging Inconsiderate: Party of One. Okay
Charlie, no sex kinks till I've eaten.
[to John
Tate]
Charlie Devereaux: You're an Oedipal
enabler.
John: It
just occured to me today that I've never
celebrated Halloween before.
Molly: And why's that?
John: Oh, we've got a psychotic serial
killer in the family who loves to butcher
people on Halloween, and I just thought
it in bad taste to celebrate.
Keri: My
name's not Keri Tate.
Will: Oooh, what is it?
Keri: Laurie Strode.
Will: [laughs] Strode?
Keri: My
brother killed my sister.
Will: How did he do that?
Keri: With a really big, sharp kitchen
knife.
Will:
What should I do?
Keri: Try to live.
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