25 Greatest Easter Eggs From The Last 20 Years Of Horror
23. Scream - Halloween H20 - Scream 2
The best reboot of a horror franchise has to be Halloween H20: theres been few attempts at kickstarting the dying corpses of Jason and Freddy thatve achieved quite as many sufficient scares, smarts and eye candy. The re-do of Michael Myers series was a cracking update of the slasher mythos.
It was a little late to the party though, with Scream (1996) and its sequel Scream 2 (1997) having already beat it to the horror revival hootenanny, which is where the crafty winks come in. Scream, THE self-referential slasher of our time, made no bones that it owed a lot to the original Halloween (1978): from the mention of Jamie Lee Curtis status as a scream queen, to flat-out discussing the rules of the horror genre while Michael Myers knife shudders on pause on the TV screen. Film nerd Randy chooses to stay alone in the house while a killer is on the loose so he can watch the end of Halloween and shout at Curtis.
If you werent sure: writer Kevin Williamson loves Halloween.
A few years later, the franchise paid it back, offering a thumbs up to the newest slasher kid on the block. During a tiny scene, the school girls of H20 gather in the TV room to watch a movie. The film Scream 2.