Written by Larry Brand & Sean Hood
Directed by Rick Rosenthal
Laurie: "You failed, Michael. Want to know why? Because I'm not afraid of you. But what about you? Are you afraid of me? Are you afraid to die, Michael?"
Prior to 2018, this would've been seen as the final instalment of the series and prior to 2007, probably as the final insult to the franchise as well. There's no denying that this is a bad movie but what's so sad about it, is that it starts off rather well.
The first 15 minutes of this movie are absolutely sublime, following the events of Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later where Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) unwittingly killed an innocent man instead of her murderous brother, Michael Myers (Brad Loree) and ends up committed to an asylum where she's been waiting three years for her brother to show up yet again.
Needless to say, Michael wastes no time in making an appearance, killing a few security guards but sparing a serial killer obsessed fellow patient before getting to Laurie. Except Laurie took a few precautions this time and the two of them have a rather volatile encounter on the rooftop, resulting in the death of Laurie Strode. It might have taken the franchise eight movies to actually kill Laurie off but it did it and it felt like a rather suitable exit for her character.
Had the movie ended there, this probably would've been one of the most loved sequels going. Except it began there and following Laurie's death, things were taken back to the Myers residence where a group of kids in an attempt of recreating the success of The Blair Witch Project decide to spend Halloween in the place that gave birth to evil itself.
The group are made up of sensible Sarah (Bianca Kajlich), party girl Jen (Katee Sackhoff), psych major Donna (Daisy McCrackin), chef Rudy (Sean Patrick Thomas) and two other blokes Bill (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Jim (Luke Kirby) in a series called Dangertainment led by Freddie (Busta Rhymes) and Nora (Tyra Banks) respectively and yeah, they're not the most memorable of characters. There's also Ryan Merriman's nerdy character, Myles who has a crush on Sarah but is overall an ineffectual character.
Granted they're marginally better than the lot we were saddled with in the fifth movie and Sarah certainly is sympathetic enough as a final girl type while the rest of her friends and Nora are glorified fodder which Michael takes his time in picking off one by one but it's Rhymes's Freddie who stands out the most from this cast and not for the right reasons but he does stand out.
Michael has probably had to suffer a lot of indignities in his movie saga but getting his backside handed to him by Freddie and the latter's terrible punning might be the worst he's had to endure and that's not escaping the fact that this is another where Michael is set alight as well. However by the end of this movie, things were being set up for a continuation that was later scuppered by the need to reboot the entire series.
- Rick Rosenthal who directed this movie also helmed Halloween 2 and made an appearance here as Professor Mixter for a brief scene.
- This movie gave us Michael's birthday as October 19th 1957.
- An original title for this movie did include Halloween: The Homecoming.
- Chronology: Halloween 2001 and 2002. This movie was meant to be released on the former date but was delayed by nine months.
Halloween: Resurrection is a mess of a movie and the very reason the movie franchise would sink, garner an awful (but fortunately shortlived) reboot series before getting back on track in 2018. There's very little I can actually recommend about this movie outside the first fifteen minutes. After that, the rest is worth ignoring.
Rating: 4 out of 10
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