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The following scene unfolds about midway through Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998; dir Steve Miner). Keri Tate (Jamie Lee Curtis), headmistress of a posh northern California boarding school, watches wearily as a string of yellow school buses shuttles her students away for a weekend of cam** in Yosemite National Park. The source of her unease is concern for her teenage son, John, whom she mistakenly believes has departed with his classmates. (John has in fact secretly stayed behind with three friends to have a clandestine Halloween party in the school’s basement). Keri turns and immediately collides with her secretary, Norma (Janet Leigh).
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Nelson, A.P. (2015). Franchise Legacy and Neo-slasher Conventions in Halloween H20. In: Clayton, W. (eds) Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496478_6
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