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    Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later
    Genre:Horror

    Reviewed In Issue 32 Of Widescreen Review® Stars:
    Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Josh Hartnett, Janet Leigh

    WSR Review Scores
    Picture Rating: 3.5
    Sound Rating: 5+
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    DVD General Information
    (Studio/Distributor): Dimension Home Video
    (Catalog Number): 16070AS
    (MPAA Rating): R
    (Retail Price): $49.99
    (Running Time In Minutes): 86
    (Color Type): Color
    (Chaptered/Scene Access): Yes
    (Closed Captioned): Yes
    (Theatrical Release): 1998
    (LD Release Date): 3/99
    (THX® Digitally Mastered): No

    Credits Information
    (Director): Steve Miner
    (Screenplay/Written By): Robert Zappia & Matt Greenberg
    (Story): Robert Zappia
    (Music): John Ottman
    (Director Of Photography):
    (Production Designer): John Willet
    (Visual Effects):
    (Costume Designer):
    (Editor): Patrick Lussier
    (Supervising Sound Editors):
    (Re-Recording Mixers):
    (Executive Producers): Moustapha Akkad, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein & Kevin Williamson
    (Co-Producers):
    (Producers): Paul Freeman

    DVD Picture Information
    (Principal Photography): Super 35
    (Theatrical Aspect Ratio): 2.40:1
    (Measured LaserDisc Aspect Ratio): 2.30:1

    DVD Sound Information
    (DVD Soundtrack): DTS Digital Surround
    (Theatrical Sound): DTS, SDDS & Dolby Digital
    (Theatrical Re-Issue Soundtrack):
    (Remastered Dolby Digital): No
    (Remastered DTS Digital Surround):
    (Additional Languages):

    WSR Narrative Review
    Story Synopsis:
    It’s 20 years later and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is still running scared from her murderous brother in Halloween H20. Now, living in a small town under the alias, Keri Tate, she is the headmistress of a private school that will be all but deserted on Halloween just as a certain white-faced someone arrives.

    LaserDisc Picture:
    The dark 2.30:1 picture effectively creates a gloomy quality throughout, though colors appear smeared and wanting in clarity. Contrast and shadow delineation are mediocre and wanting in detail in the darkest scenes. When better lighting is provided, color fidelity is naturally rendered with rich colors and deep, solid blacks. Noise is apparent throughout, but artifacts do not distract.

    LaserDisc Soundtrack:
    The DTS® Digital Surround soundtrack sounds wonderfully transparent. The surrounds are discrete and effectively directional, with excellent low level ambient resolution. Dialogue sounds perfectly natural with excellent integration. The music score is spatially expansive, wrapping into the surrounds. Bass extends deep with .1 LFE that intensifies the thrills. The soundfield is holosonic with exemplary coherency.
    (Surround Bass Below 50Hz): Yes
    (Aggressive System Surround): Yes
    (Intense 25Hz Bass): No
    (Deep Bass Challenging): Yes
    (Aggressive 0.1 LFE):
    (Holosonic Soundfield): Yes
    (Aggressive Split Surround): Yes
    (Center Back Surround Imaging): No
    (Directionalized Dialogue): No
    Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality:
    Superb Music Score Recording Quality:
    		 Yes
    Superb Special Visual Effects Quality:
    		 No
    Superb Color Fidelity:
    		 No
    Superb Cinematography:
    		 -
    Reference LaserDisc:
    		 No
    Collector Edition:
    		 No
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