Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Director:

Rick Rosenthal

Writers (WGA):

Debra Hill (characters) and
John Carpenter (characters) ...

Release Date:

12 July 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil Finds Its Way Home.

Plot:

Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end...

Plot Keywords:

Michael Myers | College Student | Serial Killer | Internet | Free Publicity

Cast

Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Laurie Strode
Brad Loree	...	Michael Myers
Busta Rhymes	...	Freddie Harris
Bianca Kajlich	...	Sara Moyer
Sean Patrick Thomas	...	Rudy
Daisy McCrackin	...	Donna
Katee Sackhoff	...	Jen
Luke Kirby	...	Jim
Thomas Ian Nicholas	...	Bill
Ryan Merriman	...	Myles Barton
Tyra Banks	...	Nora
Billy Kay	...	Scott
Gus Lynch	...	Harold
Lorena Gale	...	Nurse Wells
Marisa Rudiak	...	Nurse Phillips

Also Known As:

Hall8ween (USA) (working title)
Halloween 8 (USA) (working title)
Halloween H2K (USA) (working title)
Halloween H2K: Evil Never Dies (USA) (working title)
Halloween: Evil Never Dies (USA) (working title)
Halloween: Homecoming (USA) (working title)
Halloween: MichaelMyers.com (USA) (working title)
Halloween: The Homecoming (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, language, some sexuality and brief drug use.

Runtime:

94 min | Canada:89 min | UK:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG | Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) | Singapore:PG (cut) | Portugal:M/18 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) (Canadian Home Video rating) | USA:R (No. 39101) | Australia:MA | Austria:16 | Brazil:16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | UK:15 | Philippines:R-18

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Dimension Films

Trivia:

At the start of the film, an asylum inmate recounts how Michael Myers had stayed out of sight for "these three years", i.e. since Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). This places the events of that scene in 2001 - the first year to have a full moon occur on Halloween since 1945.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Freddy is watching Fist Of Fury he hears the doorbell and says something as he turns his head, but his mouth doesn't move.

Quotes:

Rudy Grimes: Don't distract me.
Jenna Danzig: Oh, I can't help myself. I am distracting.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Many Masks of Michael Myers (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Can't Change Your Mind

Whats next?...Halloween:The Resurrection H20

There are just some times when a good movie franchise is abused and milked for all it's worth. The first of the series is great and sets the mark ,the 2 occasionally 3 sequels that follow are mediocre and anything after that is just trying to make money of an audience that has no other place to spend their money. I, unfortuantely was a member of that audience, as I paid money to watch HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION, the 8th installment of the once classic HALLOWEEN franchise.

I don't even no where to start; bad cast, bad acting, boring death scenes (not to sound wierd, but why else do you go see a movie like this), need I go on.

If you noticed that this movie is mostly made up of celebrities, it is no mistake. This is all the movie has going for it, and yet it fails in that department. The biggest mistake a horror movie can make is when it spends most of its time setting up the big death scenes and then knocks off its characters one right after another. That is exactly what happens in RESSURECTION. Every character w/the exception of 2 die in a consecutive chain that takes up about 20 minutes of the movie and the other hour is spent trying to gather of what little plot exists.

The horror doesn't stop there. This HALLOWEEN installment doesn't have the style that made the first two so good. With the exception of a somewhat unexpected opening, the movie is poorly put together.

Clearly an attempt to make some fast cash off a dying series, HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION hopefully is the last time Micheal Myers takes the screen. Yet, I am sure there will find some way to bring back the masked killer. There always is a chance that the executives in charge of this franchise will make a good decision and hang up the white mask and throw away the knife. HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION rates as just a 2/10.