Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

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(51%)

Starring:	Sean Patrick Thomas \| Tyra Banks \| Busta Rhymes \| Jamie Lee Curtis \| Thomas Ian Nicholas
Director:	Rick Rosenthal
Studio:	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	88 mins
Genres:	Horror
Languages:	English
Hearing-impaired:	English
Subtitles:	English
Released:	April 21, 2003
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Freddie Harris arranges for a group of six local students to spend the night in the childhood home of Michael Myers... Little does he know that Myers has returned home for Halloween...

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Rating of 1 stars out of 5

The seventh sequel to John Carpenter's terror trailblazer is another workmanlike exploiter from Rick Rosenthal, the director of the dreary Halloween II. Six students are chosen by the Dangertainment Network to spend Halloween night in the old Myers house, which has been fitted with cameras for a live internet broadcast. Given the set-up, it doesn't come as a total surprise when Michael — still not dead despite having been decapitated in H20 — arrives to turn things bloody for the benefit of online viewers who think it's all a charade. Once Jamie Lee Curtis disappears from the plot (quickly, obviously just fulfilling her contractual obligations), the stale “Big Brother” plot sinks into a suspense-free morass of clichéd shocks and messy camerawork. From its overuse of John Carpenter's original imagery and re-orchestrated score to the bog-standard knifings and tired old ploy of the “is he really dead?” open ending, everything in this pedestrian plodder is obvious and lazy.

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11 out of 15 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1 stars
Time to kill our Halloween darlings

NicolaiHartvig from London, 20th February, 2004

Original scream-queen Jamie Lee Curtis swore that she would never make another Halloween movie after the second. She then returned in the ’20-years later’ sequel H2O and surprisingly, it made sense. But like Michael Myers himself, Jamie should not have resurfaced for Halloween Resurrection.

White-masked Michael returns home for Halloween to find that the Myers mansion is infested with pseudo-intellectual college students doing a ‘spend the night in a haunted house”-reality internet show. He’s as unhappy about this as you will be watching it and thankfully decides to kill the all off. Garden variety murder-spree ensues.

Halloween Resurrection scrapes the bottom of the barrel in the Dimension Films conveyor belt of new millennium-horror. Using reality-TV as a template for thrills has been successful before –think My Little Eye. But Resurrection finds itself closer to the delectable Blair Witch project or even worse, FearDotCom. It does have its very few moments, but the experience of watching Busta Rhymes do karate chops and use profanities every two seconds ruins every last ounce of suspense.

The Halloween series has been a tale of two worlds. The solid storyline, wonderful direction and chilling performances of Halloween 1,2 and H2O. And the superficial, mostly pointless and best-forgotten spin-off garbage of the rest, including Resurrection.

Halloween Resurrection is unfortunately a firm entry in the big book of no-no’s. We’ve loved the Halloween legend, but surely now is the time to put Michael Myers down for good.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4 stars
Halloween Resurrection

LasVegas2010 from from North West, 1st November, 2003

After 'Halloween H20', I was quite surprised to discover yet another 'Halloween' movie had been made, especially as the conclusion to 'H20' seemed so final! But... like all horror movies, the rules were bent and Michael Myers is back on the scene.

The biggest shock of the movie comes near enough right at the beginning, but I'm not going to spoil that for you! And thereafter you wonder if Michael has a purpose anymore. Well, it seems he does! Six teenagers win a competition to stay in Michael's childhood home as part of an internet 'Big Brother' type show. Unbeknown to them, scares and props have been planted to make the show more interesting to the people watching.

'Halloween Resurrection' wastes no time in diving straight into action, as Michael Myers soon becomes at large and the killing spree begins. I felt that character development wasn't a strong point in the movie, as each time a character is murdered, I didn't really seem to care! The fast pace of the movie means that dialogue is pretty much skipped, and we don't really have much time to relate to anyone, apart from the heroine, who the movie seems to be based around.

However, I found it enjoyable, pretty similar to 'H20' and not as bad at it could've been for the umpteenth sequel. If you liked the others, you'll like this and 'Halloween Resurrection' delivers, but don't expect too much from it.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 3 stars
I never thought I'd see this!

sexywelshgirl from Bridgend, 7th January, 2005

This is the 8th film in the Halloween series but I never thought I’d see it.

After what the audience thought was the great Michael Myers finally being laid to rest by his sister (Jamie Lee Curtis) who decapitated him in the fantastic Halloween H20 I thought we might have seen the last of Michael Myers and Haddonfield but this was churned out and although not as great as 1,2, and H20 it's a must see for any true fan.

Using the reality tv angle it keeps the sequel up to date with a cast that are just as annoying as any Big Brother contestants.

I was horrified however that they kill off Jamie Lee Curtis's character after just 10 minutes and did hope that this would be the last in the series but as always Mikey's not dead and I’ve heard they're planning a 9th film. This is disappointing as his whole purpose is to kill members of his family who after killing Curtis's character are all dead. But the industry have obviously found some long lost relatives!

A good film that's worth seeing. The old magic with the suspense and great camera angles still makes the heart beat faster and gives me goose bumps!

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