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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later vs Wes Craven's New Nightmare


(This is a continuation of a contest that's started on the pages for the original films of both franchises)

With both franchises considered to be in decline, they both really needed something great to continue on. And so luckily, both became resurrected with franchise alumni intending to bring these two middling franchises to their former glory. Jamie Lee Curtis and Heather Langenkamp once again resume their roles as the leading heroines. While the circumstances of their presences are different (Heather playing a metafictional version of herself) both come to find out that they won't be escaping from their past with Michael and Freddy (in one form or another) that easily, and are forced into final confrontations to save themselves and their sons. (Though losing their respective love interests by the end) They both have fun paying homage to their father films throughout, and do so with great affection. Both were much more well received than most of their preceding sequels by critics and audiences. They didn't come without some backlash, and the group it came from was rather interesting. Many longtime fans not appreciating their apparent disregard for what came before and going in new directions. But whatever the case they are often considered two of the best installments of their respective franchises, and both should've been the fitting finale they deserved. Well this is the last round of this contest (A certain other installment of one of these franchises I, and many others choose, to pretend didn't happen will not be featured here), so which of these films do you prefer and why?

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I love both but I gotta give it to New Nightmare.

H20 while being better than the Thorn trilogy films(4,5 & 6) on many levels just has a arrogant I'm better than my predecessor's feel to it.I like it more than the Thorn trilogy films like mentioned before but I hate it's arrogance and it's caused the franchise more harm than good instead of allowing the story to blossom into a complete narrative it caused the inventible Rob Zombie disasters to be put into production.I'm glad Resurrection solved a lot of issues H20 caused and at-least Resurrection was respectful to the films that came before it and didn't treat itself like it was all that and a hunk of cheese.

New Nightmare on the other hand actually has something to offer a ambitious concept & far more respectability to it's predecessor's than H20.While New Nightmare treated the previous cannon 1-6 as films it at-least had the decency to acknowledge those films and not sweep them under the rug.New Nightmare also has better writing and fleshed out characters that each got explored throughly enough.

So overall New Nightmare is the superior film don't get me wrong H20 is a good film but it's arrogance is what kills it for me.

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New nightmare is way better

H20 had that annoying late 90's vibe to it

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