Throwing out everything after Halloween 2 continuity wise, this is a sort of Halloween 3. Set twenty years later as the subtitle says, this is a boon for marketing, a sort of resurrection, which will be the title of the next movie. Laurie Strode is back, she's changed her name and gone into witness protection. Consistent with the characters already established academic orientation, two decades on finds her the head mistress of a California private school, divorced, and with a son who just turned 17, Josh Hartnett with an "Introducing" credit.
Like the actor who played him Dr. Loomis has died. Mike Meyers, (who has been doing who knows what for twenty years) breaks into the home of the Doctors assistant, kills her and two local boys, including Jospeh Gordan-Leavitt, and steals information as to his sister's wearabouts. Right on time he shows up for Halloween and the private school serves as the primary location for the killing spree. Adam Arkin is Laurie's love interest, Michelle Williams is Josh's. Janet Leigh is here as an Easter egg and LL Cool J is a security guard with aspirations to be a romance novelist. The film is pretty decent, especially when compared to its immediate predecessors, but by its very nature a derivative product. **
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