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Below average, 2 February 2009

Author: bh_tafe3 from Australia

Mike Myers gets his own reality TV show in this 8th movie of a Halloween series rapidly running out of steam.

Well, it's not actually Micheal's show it's just taking a bunch of people and putting them in his old house where "The Shape" picks them off one by one.

Good use is made of the "catch everything on camera" plot device and there are some nice hand-held camera shots of murders and chases. Like H20 this isn't really a Halloween movie. It seems completely out of place in the rest of the series and the viewer is better off viewing it as a separate film.

Some of the fanboys will be unhappy, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is dispatched in the opening minutes of the film.

Not much of a story, not really much of an ending either. Some nice scares and creative kills though. Does the job I guess, and at least makes its own kind of sense.

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The Worst Halloween ever!, 5 January 2009

Author: John Lindsey from Albuquerque New Mexico

Five years has passed since the last movie, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has been institutionalized after killing the wrong man whom she thought was her brother. Michael Myers however is still on the rampage as he confronts with her for the very last time, however back in Haddonfield a producer named Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes) and girlfriend (Tyra Banks) hire some college students (Sean Patrick Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Bill Kay, Bianca Kajlich, Ryan Merimann, Katee Sackhoff, Luke Kirby Daisy Mccraken) to do a reality program on the net called DangerTainment. They wire cameras in the Myers home to do their program which could be very successful, unfortunately Michael is back as he terrorizes the reality WebTV crew.

The worst movie of the series! some people say it's "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" but no it's not, that movie which maybe unrelated was an experiment to turn the franchise into a big screen horror anthology. Some say it's "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers" but that maybe bad but it had it's moments, now "Resurrection" is truly the worst and most embarrassing movie in the series. I do like the idea of a "Survivor"-esque reality show on the internet within the Myers house idea but the idea seem to got wasted by the bad acting, some miscasting, some lame killing sequences and a stupid fight sequence with Busta Rhymes kicking Myers's butt as he quotes "Trick or Treat Motherf*****". Rock Rosenthal who gave us the superb "Halloween 2" did a poor job of bringing back Michael to the screen as this movie nearly cripples the franchise no thanks to this dud.

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Halloween: Re$urrection, 31 December 2007

Author: hypostylin from SoHo, NYC

Halloween: Resurrection is so rife with unoriginality (even the title is a rip-off of dozens of other bad horror sequels) and ineptitude -- from the acting to the storyline to the cinematography -- that I don't even know where to begin. It is an absolute mystery how Moustapha Akkad allowed the series to go from H20 to this mess, which isn't even up to par with a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie. True, Akkad, rest his soul, was transparently in the Halloween series for the money, but even he had his standards -- or so I thought.

Director Rosenthal, no longer under the tutelage of John Carpenter and Debra Hill like he was when he helmed the decent Halloween II, can't even get the opening title sequence right (is that Arial Black I see?) and relies on a tepid John Wayne Gacy knockoff and an oh-so- convincing decapitation with a kitchen knife for scares. Even back in 2002, he was way late with all the reality TV/webcam gobbledygook. The film's premise plays out like your Great Aunt Gladys trying to sound hip and with the technological age because she managed to buy a tea cozy on eBay all by herself.

It is best not to talk about Jamie Lee Curtis' involvement in this, so as not to exacerbate matters. After giving us the perfect ending to the series in H20, she was shackled to this project due to contractual obligations. Her character's undignified opening fifteen minutes are even more of a disgrace to the series than that awful Druid storyline in Part 6.

What a disaster.

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No No No No No, 9 September 2007

Author: ged_white72 from United Kingdom

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What an awful movie directed by Rick Rosenthal who directed Halloween 2 which i thought was awesome. I guess some directors lose there touch. I mean it was good with Michael dying in H20 but they have to go and make it a paramedic and keep Myers alive and then they changes deaths in h20 Laurie kills Myers this one Myers kills Laurie. This means there probably gonna make a sequel soon because i heard Tyler Mane signed for another Halloween so after he does that one they may do a sequel but what storyline do they have i wonder probably that it was a Laurie Strode look alike and shes still alive (dont laugh thats basically what they did with this one).

I give this piece of junk a 3 out of 10

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Avoid!, 5 September 2007

Author: chucknorrisfacts

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"Halloween: Resurrection" should not have been made. The series would have ended on a high note, if only it had been left with "Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later". You would've had Laurie Strode coming out on top after finally putting a stop to her brother, Michael Myers.

Instead, her character meets her demise in about the first ten minutes of the film. After having Laurie escape death after numerous encounters over a twenty some odd year span it was quite heartbreaking to see her character meet her end, and such an unceremonious one at that.

Once its established Laurie is dead and she's not coming back, there's really no reason to continue watching the film. The rest of the movie focuses on a group of teenagers who after winning a contest must spend the night in Michael Myers' childhood home while being broadcast on the Internet for the entire world to see.

Among the weakest entries in the series, the only films worse than this are Rob Zombie's new remake and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch". Unless you're a die hard fan, I'd say stay away from this one.

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What was once a great franchise starts to show it's age, 6 August 2007

Author: monstermayhem32 from United States

Halloween Resurrection is by far one of the worst boring and uncreative Halloween sequel ever created. The series should have ended with Halloween H20 since the series would have had closure with Laurie Strode finally facing her fear of her brother Michael Myers and finally killing him for good. Instead the filmmakers attempt to cash out the franchise for all it's worth and doesn't even attempt to at least create an interesting story and characters that the fans care about like Halloween 4 did with Jamie Lloyd and Rachel Carruthers who were excellently played by Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell. The Story follows three years after H20 in which Laurie is now in Smithsgrove sanitarium for killing a paramedic in which she though was Michael. Michael returns and eventually kills off his sister, one year later a company called Dangertainment plans to have a internet live show in the Myers house which Michael returns to Haddonfield to kill off the unwanted guests. the acting in this film is horrible, and the character are a bunch of dumb pot heads, who are completely clueless of who Michael Myers is. Despite a well famous cast like Tyra Banks, Sean Patrick Thomas, Busta Rhymes, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Thomas Ian Nicholas the films suffers from many plot holes. The only good things about the film is Michael Myers's mask, the house, and Jamie's performance of Laurie Strode who is clearly tired of fighting Michael and is very beaten down and worn out.

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Good concept but failed, 21 July 2007

Author: FilmFanInTheHouse from Berkshire, England

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Halloween: Resurrection (2002, Dir. Rick Rosenthal)

Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end. But is this the last we see of Myers? Freddie Harris and Nora Winston are reality programmers at DangerTainment, and are planning to send a group of 6 thrill-seeking teenagers into the childhood home of Myers. Cameras are placed all over the house and no one can get out of the house... and then Michael arrives home!

When i first heard about this, i thought the concept was brilliant. Each character given a video game and sent into Michael Myers. Unfortunately, the idea didn't turn out too well. The film started off fantastic with the Halloween theme leading into the death of Laurie Strode, and then after that, the film just died. I actually found the acting in this film quite bad. The stars just could not fit in with the story and it's concept. Busta Rhymes character for me was the worst individual in this film. His acting came across very poor and seemed to best fit in a cheap, rip-off, straight to DVD movie. Once they entered the house, they should have really kept the film to the hand held cameras. The film would have been a lot more scary and more interesting if it didn't switch to an actual camera for the death scenes. If your a Halloween fan, you might as well watch this, to complete this series. If you don't fancy watching it, at least watch the first quarter, as this is how the series should have really ended.

"Kick his a$$! Kick his a$$! Kick his a$$!" "Who's better than Wat Chun Lee?" "Whoopin' everybody a$$ while he's smokin' a cigarette." "Oh, $hit. Who's knockin' on my door this late?" "Whoever this is is distracting me from seeing Wat Chun Lee whoop some a$$." - Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes)

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The weakest of the series, 17 February 2007

Author: Rautus from United Kingdom

Halloween: Resurrection tries to make itself a modern horror film by adding computers and an online show but it's lacks the style that the first film had. Another thing I mentioned in the H20 review is that these two films try to disregard the previous Halloween sequels and that is a let down since they wasn't that bad.

Jamie Lee has only a cameo appearance in this other than her main role in H20. Some of the characters were unlikable, Busta Ryhmes added some humour into the film. The gore is also limited from the previous movies.

Halloween 8 is the weakest from the Halloween series, watch it if you're curious to know what happened after H20.

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You have got to be kidding me!, 20 December 2006

Author: ShatteredChaos from Austerlitz, The Netherlands

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Being a major Horror movie geek, naturally I was a big fan of the first two Halloween movies. Even the third could have my appreciations. Buth after that, it made me real sad.

The first minutes of this movie got my expectations up. But unfortunately these are the only nice minutes of this movie. The branche has become nothing more than a teenage scary movie. Even the acting had relegated itself to second hand actors and rappers. Shameful in my opinion.

Let's hope this will be the last movie in the Halloween branche. The only 'new' Halloween movie that might be interesting would be a prequel about the youth of Michael and his sister! Pity

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No wonder the series was rebooted, this was the crash in the system, 8 December 2006

Author: jwtrox08706 from Louisville, KY

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A lot of people may think that Halloween 5 is the least effective film in the whole series, but Halloween: Resurrection is a close second to that. Putting Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks in this film...fail. Busta Rhymes brings two aspects to this film that do not belong in a Halloween film...hip hop arrogance and kung-fu. I like hip hop music, and I sure as hell love to see kung-fu. However, I do NOT want to see kung-fu in a Halloween film. I don't want to see Busta Rhymes making his stupid @$$ comments in a Halloween film. Tyra Banks: a role model to many. Personally, I just think she's annoying, now. She certainly has no place in a Halloween film. What else about this film shoots itself in the foot? Sean Patrick Thomas is a good actor. He was great in movies like The Barber Shop and a lot of teen movies during the '90s. Where he does not fit in is a Halloween film. Just, no. I can't explain it. Thomas Ian Nicholas is a similar situation. I thought he was hilarious in the American Pie films (and I love the original three American Pies), and he was good in Rookie of the Year. Does he belong in a Halloween film? No. He just didn't fit into the whole equation. I think one shining performance, which isn't saying a whole lot, because the acting in this film is not convincing, comes from Bianca Kajlich. She's good at being absolutely petrified and running from Michael. However, who the hell decided that it was a good idea to hire an actress for a leading female role in a Halloween film when she can't scream? That's right. She can't scream. So they had to ADR screams into the film for her in post production. In retrospect this film should never have been made. Halloween H20 was where it should have ended. Laurie beheaded Michael, and that was that. However, they just had to go back and use the holes in the time line between Michael falling through the table after being stabbed repeatedly by Laurie and the time that he gets tagged, bagged and put into the meat wagon as a means to come up with a very shaky situation to explain how Michael had survived that night. It's all bull$hit. Apparently an EMT went into the school, got his larynx crushed by Michael, and Michael switched clothes with him. So in all the confusion, Michael walks away, free to kill again, and a helpless EMT gets beheaded by Laurie. She gets institutionalized, and ultimately gets killed by Michael after a botched attempt to kill him when he finally decides to come after her. Horrible, just horrible. You know when the PC freezes because Windows f-cking sucks, and then finally it just crashes? Well, that's what this movie is, pretty much. However, there is one cool thing about this film. The use of webcams adds an interesting aspect to this film. Rick Rosenthal directed this, and he also directed the original Halloween II. So, he recycles some gags and features that he utilized in Halloween II. The webcams are very reminiscent of the security cameras and monitors in the hospital in Halloween II. Bianca Kajlich (Sarah) slips and falls on a huge puddle of blood, much like Lance Guest did in Halloween II. There are others in the film, but I thought I'd just mention the two most prominent ones. Overall, this film is very ineffective and weak when compared to many of the other Halloween films. I give it a 3 out of 10.

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