Where do I begin. This movie is just BAD. Everything about it is bad, well not everything, but most things are. Let's start with the good things. The mask, was awesome looking, the best of the franchise next to the original. The score was amazing, very creepy and eerie opening theme. The guy who portrayed Michael Myers was great, and Jamie Lee Curtis is back for about 10 minutes, which rocked. The main problem that I have with this film is that the opening is so much more different than the rest of the film. I would've been more satisfied if they decided to just do a 15 minute short, rather than a full length feature, and that would've easily warranted an A. After the opening, the movie ventures into the typical teenager slasher movie realm. The characters are not likeable at all, as a matter of fact I didn't care if any of them lived or died. Plus most of them were horrendous actors, with the exception of the guy who played Michael Myers, and Jamie Lee Curtis. The whole internet webcam thing was so contrived, and retarded. It had a ridiculous plot, and alot of the kills were just copycats of what the other Halloween movies have displayed. I just didn't like it, extremely corny, implausible, and worst of all it had some bad actors. It was an entertaining movie,yes, but that is if you are willing to turn off your brain the whole way through, and let go of reality for a minute. I just thought it was terrible. The worst in the franchise. H5 and H6 were both bad movies, but they had better plots, and a lot more going for them than this crapfest did. The opening is awesome, and the ending is good, but I wouldn't recommend this film. I would recommend H1,H2,H4, and H20 before I would ever let you terminate your brain cells on this shit.

D-

B


I might be alone on this one, but I found Halloween: Ressurection much more entertaining and fun than the boring Halloween: H20. At least it never takes itself seriously. It is just a fun slasher, just like it is supposed to be. No suspense here, but still all the ingridients of a fun slasher are there. It is bloody, violent, with some nice humor, never takes itself seriously, goes overboard and provides us with a high body count and a ridiculous ending. I liked it that way, it was actually one of the more enjoyable Halloween films. I also liked the beginning with Jamie Lee Curtis, a good way to finally take her out of the franchise for good.

A true nightmare of a film... and not in the ways we hoped...

Let's start off, shall we:

Jamie Lee Curtis returned to do nothing more than fulfill a contractual obligation. This is evident and well known. However, during Halloween: H20, Curtis had a lot of leverage, so why she would ever sign a contract with a sequel stipulation to begin with is beyond me... She wanted Myers dead; she's the one who refused to return without that. She got her wish. "Dimension Films" certainly wasn't going to turn down her reappearance in Halloween: H20 over a sequel stipulation. They allowed her to kill Michael Myers.

All this would eventually lead us to one of the most obligatory, useless, waste of a character moments in probably motion picture history -- certainly the entire horror genre. It's a disgrace and a slap in the face to the character, many fans, and celluloid as a whole.

Laurie Strode, your time is done...

For a character who's been through 23 years of hell, she's a complete moron in this piece. Laurie's death was cheaply done; the kiss was laughably idiotic; and her character was horribly written in this film -- consequently, being tossed away like some common dullard teen from "Friday the 13th Part 5: A Nude Beginning." Laurie's death -- if done (sans Halloween 4) -- should have been the climax of the series, not a sloppy afterthought.

On a side note: The woman would be known in the mental institution as Keri Tate; she wouldn't have been committed under the Laurie Strode moniker. I doubt the woman had any time to perform a legal name change -- and would she really go back to using the Laurie Strode name? I doubt it.

My fingers ache as I type because things get even worse: Are we to believe a mentally distorted mental patient is going to have access to construction gear designed to build ridiculous trap concoctions on the roof of a mental institution? I suppose Laurie was wasting the days away with a Texas Instrument's Graphing Calculator and Blueman's blueprints coming up with this half-baked Lucy and Ethel scheme. At the same time, escaping her room multiple times to the rooftops where she gets ready for big bad Mikey's return. Just thinking about it makes me cringe -- it's all just so laughably idiotic.

Number 1: The woman would have never been committed to a mental institution for killing the wrong guy to begin with. She'd be in jail, and she wouldn't even be there. She would have been pardoned due to the circumstances.

Number 2: If Michael were still out there, why would she commit herself? Why would her son commit her? I don't think I'd lock myself away somewhere waiting to be picked off. I think I would be getting as far away from the area as possible. "Well, Michael would find her anyway," some might argue... That may be true, but at least she has a sporting chance not being locked up somewhere.

Number 3: Another theory is that she faked her mental insanity which is why she could still speak. Why would she do this? Once again, if she wasn't crazy, she wouldn't be here.

If not for the incompetent medical staff at our local hospital nowadays, I'd dismiss the entire plot as pure dribble. It still leaves the questions of where she got these materials from?

The whole trap proves ultimately pointless anyway: After being attacked and chased through a mental ward, Laurie questions if she's killing the right guy? Um lady, this guy tried to stab you in your bed, chased you to a rooftop (with knife in hand the entire time), all while wearing a worksuit and Halloween shape shifting mask as a homage to H20's shape shifter*. And yes, Myers does resemble "Heat Mizer" in the shots where he chases Laurie down the halls. It's good for an unintentional laugh every now and again.

*With respect, I doubt shape shifter Myers was intentional. Obvious reshooting going on here. However, judging from Rick Rosenthal's lack of talent, one can never be sure.

Bottom Line: This isn't Laurie. It's some idiotic caricature behaving in ways Laurie just wouldn't react in. It's an insult to Laurie Stode's character as well as Jamie Lee Curtis's career. In addition, Michael is basically a supernatural apparition at this point: How was dropping him into some trees really going to hurt him anyway?

The rest of the plot ventures into an even higher level of stupidity, so there's no point in really discussing it. It's so distant from anything that came before it anyhow.

Grade: F

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Series fan bonus:

Very rare half-baked camper scene that never made final cut:

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Probably the worst of the Micheal Meyers films because it throws away anything in the series, and turned him into nothing more than a serial Killer cash in. Where the first ten minutes and 7 earlier films were about killing members of the family, now anyone thats in his house has to go. Not particularly bad if it wasn't a halloween film. It's just a pointless sequel that pretty much through the series into an area that it couldnt go back from, hence the remake.

D+ For Halloween sequel
C+ for a typical slasher

D+

It's awful and very much a Friday the 13th sequel (guys, we're not supposed to cheer for Michael), but I give it points for: Jamie Lee Curtis; a very nice Myers house set that mimics the first film; and Brad Loree, my favorite sequel Shape.