Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later may no longer exist in the current Halloween continuity, but many franchise fans still remember the flick fondly. Let’s revisit the 1998 slasher sequel with these ten killer facts about the film!
6The ending caused a great deal of tension behind the scenes
The ending of Halloween H20 has been a source of controversy with Halloween fans. Although it would appear that Laurie finally kills Michael Myers at the end of the film, the beginning of the 2002 sequel would reveal that Michael wasn’t dead after all. Apparently, he had slipped his mask onto an unaware paramedic, and believing him to be Michael, Laurie decapitates the medical worker with an ax.
There’s a reason this sequence of events is so convoluted. A condition established by producer Moustapha Akkad was that Michael couldn’t be killed at the end of the movie, so as to leave the door open for more Halloween sequels. Jamie Lee Curtis reportedly preferred to end the series instead, hoping for a more definitive ending to the story. To make both sides happy, Kevin Williamson proposed the paramedic switcheroo idea.
Curtis relented and accepted this ending, but only on the condition that H20 wouldn’t even hint towards a sequel, making no mention of Michael’s survival until Resurrection was released. The scream queen has also gone on record as saying Resurrection was “a joke,” and she had only reprised her role in the film because she was contractually obligated to do so. For those fans who feel H20 had the perfect ending to the original story, it may help to know that Curtis herself felt the same way.
Because H20 has such a satisfying ending on its own when disregarding the reveal in Resurrection, many fans choose to simply “not count” the latter, considering the climax of the former to be the true ending of this particular timeline.
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