IMO Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode deserves special mention for one of the most unexpectedly, weirdly touching moments in horror movie history...and it took place in one of the "Halloween" sequels, no less: "Halloween: H20."
(For some reason I will never understand, the filmmakers chose to reject the promotional tag line "Blood is thicker than water." And for the record, I consider "Halloween," "Halloween II," and "Halloween: H20" to be a pretty good horror movie trilogy, while choosing to disregard all the terrible quasi-sequels.)
The moment comes at the very end of the movie, when Laurie has managed to render her brother Michael helpless and approaches him carrying the fireman's axe she intends to kill him with. She says his name several times to make him to look at her. He wordlessly reaches out to her with one beseeching hand. Her face twists in a mixture of horror and pity, and she reaches out to him as well, actually letting their fingers touch...right before rearing back and delivering the decapitating blow.
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IMO Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode deserves special mention for one of the most unexpectedly, weirdly touching moments in horror movie history...and it took place in one of the "Halloween" sequels, no less: "Halloween: H20."
(For some reason I will never understand, the filmmakers chose to reject the promotional tag line "Blood is thicker than water." And for the record, I consider "Halloween," "Halloween II," and "Halloween: H20" to be a pretty good horror movie trilogy, while choosing to disregard all the terrible quasi-sequels.)
The moment comes at the very end of the movie, when Laurie has managed to render her brother Michael helpless and approaches him carrying the fireman's axe she intends to kill him with. She says his name several times to make him to look at her. He wordlessly reaches out to her with one beseeching hand. Her face twists in a mixture of horror and pity, and she reaches out to him as well, actually letting their fingers touch...right before rearing back and delivering the decapitating blow.