I'm so glad the series didn't end here

your hate for this film is one thing but dont let it distort the facts.

you say halloween 3 was some massive bomb and michael myers returning did "well enough" without laurie but none of the curtis-less sequels even cracked 20 million. in fact halloween 3 which is considered some huge flop actually made 3 million more than halloween 5 and only 1 million less than halloween 6 and if we're taking into account inflation it was a bigger hit considering it came out 13 yrs before curse.

even halloween 4 which was considered a return to form for the series was kind of a flop it only made 17 million dollars. none of these sequels were "hits"... cult hits maybe but not mainstream hits. halloween h20 and even resurrection (surprisingly) did better than all of the other sequels. in fact h20 was the biggest box office total for any film in the series at the time and yes a great deal of that success was the return of laurie. without jamie lee curtis' return im certain the halloween series would have gone direct to vhs for its next installment just like hellraiser or children of the corn did in the late 90s.

you dislike this movie greatly that's obvious and that's fine. but you should appreciate that it resurrected this film series and probably saved it from being a forgotten b-movie joke. nightmare on elm street and friday the 13th had supplanted halloween as bigger horror franchises in mainstream culture. it was all about freddy and jason. even chucky was a greater media franchise than michael myers. h20 brought halloween back to mainstream success and in turn put michael myers back on the map in pop culture. he's now often mentioned as one of the "big 3" with freddy and jason....but for a stretch in the 80s and 90s was never really as big as the other 2 (he still isnt even really....the halloween remake didnt do the same numbers as nightmare or friday or even texas chainsaw)...but regardless, h20 (and curtis) saved this franchise without question.