Halloween - Resurrection
2002
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... Read more
| Starring | Sean Patrick Thomas, Tyra Banks, Busta Rhymes, Jamie Lee Curtis |
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| Director | Rick Rosenthal |
| Genres | Horror |
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Halloween - Resurrection
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...
| 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 | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Apr 2003 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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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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Dire horror built on the premise that the ending to Halloween H20 was a fantasy. It's just another slasher movie.
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12 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Time to kill our Halloween darlings
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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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
I never thought I'd see this!
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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