Halloween: Resurrection

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Myers has always been fun to watch. The films of the series deteriorated over time. This movie is not good. There was potential, but they didn't use it.

Halloween: Resurrection fails on every front. The acting is subpar, except for Curtis, whose small role diminishes the purpose of the entire movie. The dialogue is terrible as well, with cringey moments throughout. The plot is not written well after the first few sequences, with ridiculous choices made by the characters and an overall not so convincing way that the characters are brought into their respective fortunes. The emotional depth is decent at best, and the character development has nearly no meaning. Again, there is a failure to truly address if Myers is supernatural. The conclusion is the most irritating, with a complete lack of awareness by the writers of what the audience wants. Fundamentally, this is a film that should not have been made, with the previous Halloween movie providing a more fitting ending than this.

Yet another pathetic attempt to resurrect the series while insulting Carpenter's legacy. This money grabbing scheme will make you yawn before it shocks you.

I remember when this was released. Everyone in school was talking about it and how frightened they were to watch it. However, there is a difference between gore and suspense. Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense. He could do more in one scene with out showing any violence or blood than any of these movies could ever poop out. This is not in any way a scary or suspenseful movie. It is gore. Period. There is no imagination left to the movie. The key to making a good scary movie is to let the viewer form their images in their own mind. Then they scare their selves. The best way to ruin a movie is to show too much. That's the problem with this movie. It shows everything. Who cares? Idiots. People who only want to see blood and guts. If you wanted to see blood and guts, then go join the military and go off to war.

After the somewhat decent 'Halloween H20', I thought this franchise was starting to pick up. But it wasn't. Back to the absolute dross that is Michael Myers and all things associated with him. Not only starring college kids...it looks like it was written, produced, directed and filmed by them too! Very much 'of its time'...absolutely reeks of the late 90s. Stupid idea, stupid plot, stupid acting! How has this franchise lasted so long?

Mike Myers gets his own reality TV show in this 8th movie of a Halloween series rapidly running out of steam. Well, it's not actually Micheal's show it's just taking a bunch of people and putting them in his old house where "The Shape" picks them off one by one. Good use is made of the "catch everything on camera" plot device and there are some nice hand-held camera shots of murders and chases. Like H20 this isn't really a Halloween movie. It seems completely out of place in the rest of the series and the viewer is better off viewing it as a separate film. Some of the fanboys will be unhappy, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is dispatched in the opening minutes of the film. Not much of a story, not really much of an ending either. Some nice scares and creative kills though. Does the job I guess, and at least makes its own kind of sense.

How did Resurrection get the green light? Halloween H20 would have been the absolute best ending to the franchise but it's pretty established the only thing that will kill Michael Myers is the box-office. The writers somehow threw together an explanation to the H20 ending that saved Michael from his apparent death. I'm not a fan at all of the beginning scenes with Laurie Strode and its quite said that it ended this way with a hack installment. The movie went in the direction of a hood MTV real-world type feel which I guess was aimed to attract young audiences instead of true horror fans. The film takes place in Michael's old house which oddly changes a lot in each movie. The majority of the cast stunk, especially Busta Rhymes, it was only Bianca Kajlich who was likable. When the ending rolled along I felt even more duped and to this day it's a pity that this is the last film in Carpenter's franchise.

I'm writing my review whilst half way through this film, something I never do. It's such a cheesy film trying to scare the teenagers. The addition of Busta and the preppy guy from American Pie just makes this film a dud for me.