10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

When it's all said and done, the film goes for an extra climax that is surprising in how great it is.

The paramedics and police arrive to take away Michael's body but Laurie hijacks the ambulance and proceeds to do everything in her power to make sure she finishes this, once and for all. She drives the ambulance off a cliff, pinning Michael underneath of the wreckage.

Unlike literally everyone else in a slasher movie ever, Laurie does not wait for the killer to get back up. She takes action, even if it means going a little crazy herself. In the film's final moment, Laurie decapitates Michael with an axe as John Carpenter's original Halloween Theme plays.

Seeing Laurie go through with it and actually, truly kill Michael is shocking enough but adding the original theme on top of it makes it unbelievable. The end result is that the final five minutes of this film are a marked improvement over the first eighty-one-minutes in every way. It is easily the best ending of any of the Halloween sequels.

And yes, the next film retcons and undoes all of this (in the dumbest way possible) but boy, is it glorious to watch this and pretend this is really the end.