History Film / HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater

- Impossible ? Not really : there's about a 30-hour drive between Chicago and San Francisco. Myers starts his journey from Langdon on October 29th, around 7 p.m., so without stopping, he could arrive in California on the 31th, around 2 or 3 a.m, just in time to "celebrate" Halloween. Gas would definitely remain an issue, though.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: We're given a BaitAndSwitch thinking Michael will murder a mother and her young daughter, but he just steals their car keys. No victims are younger than a teenager]].

* OhCrap: For the audience's view. Michael tries to stab John and Molly through a closed gate with no success. Then he notices the keys on the ground, picks them up and tries to normally open the gate. This shows that Michael may be a psychotic murderer but he's far from being brainless.

* SeriesContinuityError: Michael has no burn scars, which he would have incurred from the second film (which is on this movie's continuity).

** Another example, intentional or not foreshadows [[spoiler: the one in the body bag isn't michael, throughout the series it is shown he shugs off injury not problem, generally ignoring or at least not reacting to anything flung his way, but in the end the "michael" in the van is shown throwing his arms up in an attempt to defend himself from laurie hitting him with the van, and when the wakes up after being pinned to a tree laurie cals his name and he grasps at the mask in a kind of "what am i wearing?" gesture.]]

* BackForTheDead: Poor Nurse Whittington.

* CallBack: Michael [[spoiler: lifting Will up with his knife after stabbing him]] is reminiscent of the infamous scalpel scene from ''Film/HalloweenII1981''.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Everything that came out between ''Halloween II'' and this.
** Though the film does very, very subtley hint at events from movies IV-VI, indicating that they may, to some degree, have happened.

* Headscratchers : [[spoiler:Why nobody checked any vital signs on Michael Myers after his fall? The police and some ambulances were there and no one thought about even checking his pulse ! No wonder he could so easily play dead.]].

* SassyBlackWoman: Ronnie's wife.

%%* TookALevelInBadass: Laurie.

** One character is named Norma Watson after PJ Sole's role in the first film adaptation of ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}''. Soles also played Lynda in the original ''Halloween''.
** There is also a cameo by Janet Leigh, mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and star of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', which is the Spiritual Ancestor to the original ''Halloween''. Janet Leigh drives the car she drove in ''Psycho'', and her scene is scored with the music from that film.

''H20'' was a hit with critics and audiences as it was seen as a welcome return to form for the franchise. While it offered a solid conclusion to the story of Laurie Strode, that didn't stop the suits from [[Film/HalloweenResurrection making a sequel]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Laurie is teaching an English literature class on Mary Shelley's novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. Molly, one of the students, responds to a question about the book and fate with this:

* GenreSavvy: Laurie's not willing to take the chance of Michael coming back again, so [[spoiler: she steals the ambulance taking away his body and cuts his head off]].

* MamaBear: In the original movie, Laurie had no qualms attacking Michael in self defense. In H20, she really lets him have it when he attacks her son.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Marion Whittington and Doctor Loomis. Actor Creator/DonaldPleasence [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim did sadly pass away]] in 1995. At least his death was [[KilledOffScreen off-screen]] unlike Marion unfortunately.]]

* {{Recut}}: There's a TV Cut that trims the violence and cuss words, but also has some alternate scenes. One added scene gives the counselor played by Alan Arkin some development by revealing that his mother cheated on his traveling salesman father, and he got blamed for knowing, but doing nothing.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Inverted. Ronnie the security guard is mistakenly shot by Laurie, but appears at the end having survived]].

* ShoutOut: One character is named Norma Watson after PJ Sole's role in the first film adaptation of ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}''. Soles also played Lynda in the original ''Halloween''.
** There is also a cameo by Janet Leigh, mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and star of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', which is the Spiritual Ancestor to the original ''Halloween''. Janet Leigh drives the car she drove in Psycho, and her scene is scored with the music from that film.
** One of the teens who Nurse Loomis encounters is wearing [[FridayThe13th a hockey mask]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Laurie.

** Molly spotting Micheal lurking across the street from her classroom, precisely as Laurie did in the first film--and both during an English class, no less.

* BigEater: Sarah. While preparing a massive amount of junk food for a Halloween party, she mentions she's got such an intense love of food that it's actually a goal of hers to get fat.

* SeriesContinuityError: Michael has no burn scars, which he would have incurred from the second film (which is on this movie's continuity).

Ignoring the continuity of the [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers last]] [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers three]] [[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers films]] of the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' franchise, '''''Halloween [=H20=]: Twenty Years Later''''' picks up the story of FinalGirl Laurie Strode (Creator/JamieLeeCurtis). After faking her death to live in peace following the horrific events during the [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} Halloween night of 1978]], Laurie had changed her name to Keri Tate, had a son, and became a headmistress for a high school far away from Haddonfield, Illinois.