Halloween:Resurrection (2002) Movie Review

When a Halloween film is released in the middle of summer, something seems terribly wrong. Possibly more frightening than the film itself is the fact that a film studio would have the courage to release a movie at the wrong time for the movie because it is the right time for ticket sales. In seeing this film I knew it would be purely a money making film with little to no art quality contributed.

Unfortunately that is not always a requirement for a mojority of film audiences, and the theatre was crowded when I saw this film. Halloween Resurrection ensures that anyone too young to remember any of the past Halloween films (even Halloween H20 which was released only a few years ago) can still enjoy this one and know what is going on as well.

They spend the first five minutes of the film using dumbed down dialogue and recycled footage, the tag of a bad horror film, to give us all the necessary backstory. The bakstory basically being that this is one crazy man and he never seems to die. This scene is followed by an annoyingly unsatisfying cameo from Jamie Lee Curtis. All of this being filmed in the bad way that horror films are lovingly known to be.

Once we start getting into the actual story it does pick up a bit, mostly thanks to a young cast that is fairly fun to watch dispite the one-dimensional script. The story pulls a media moral in the middle of all of the horror by setting the film in a reality internet show. Dangertainment is a group of college students who are locking themselves in the childhood home of Michael Myers with cameras on Halloween night. Although much of what they find turns out to be a hoax, the real danger follows shortly when Michael comes home. Then basically everyone starts dying and internet audiences watch on in wonder as they debate whether it is real or not.

Although there are some jump scares and a few truly creepy scenes in Hallween Resurrection, for the most part it is not scary but instead disgusting and funny, although not always on purpose. I have no doubt that this is not the last we will see of Michael because he never really seems to die and audiences never really seem to get tired of throwing their money away.