Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home.

Director:

Rick Rosenthal

Writers:

Debra Hill (characters), John Carpenter (characters)

Stars:

Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Brad Loree

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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 (as Katee Sachoff)
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

Storyline

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!

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Plot Keywords:

michael myers | halloween | cult film | michael myers character | dr sam loomis character | 

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Taglines:

On July 12th, Michael comes home, and this time, there will be NO escape!

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

Halloween: The Website of Michael Myers Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 July 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Halloween: The Homecoming

Filming Locations:

Canfield-Moreno Estate - 1923 Micheltorena Street, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$12,292,121, 14 July 2002, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$30,354,442

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$37,664,855

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dimension Films, Nightfall Productions, Trancas International Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Several new endings were written during production and the cast was never sure how the film was actually going to end. Four different endings were filmed, and the director wanted the studio to ship a different ending to each theater, a technique used before during the theatrical release of Clue (1985). However, the studio disagreed and the endings now appear on the DVD and the Internet.

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Goofs

In the scene after the fake skeleton breaks through the wall Donna puts her mahogany coloured top back on. In a few seconds she kneels down to pick up her camera equipment from the floor without anything with her, but seconds later, when she grabs her camera gear, she has the small camera attached to her ear.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Laurie Strode: You've heard of the tunnel. The one we all go through sooner or later. At the end, there's a door. And waiting for you on the other side of that door is either Heaven or Hell. This is that door.

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Crazy Credits

Katee Sackhoff's name is misspelled in the opening credits--the "k" is left out.

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Alternate Versions

Nora Winston's (Tyra Banks's) death scene involved Michael stringing her up with electrical wire and him viciously stabbing her in the abdomen as she struggled. The scene was later cut because as Brad Loree, the stuntman who played Michael, stated "Every horror movie has to have a character find the body of someone you didn't know was dead."

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Connections

Referenced in A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss: The American Scream (2010)

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Soundtracks

Cultural Wizdum
Written by Aaron Dysart
Performed by Eastern Dub Tactik
Licensed by Waveformhq.Com
By Arrangement with Sugaroo!
Slumberland Songs (ASCAP)

User Reviews

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Halloween: Resurrection starts off on the wrong foot and it's all downhill from there. Sure they found a clever way to undo the closure of Halloween H2O and make it possible to bring Mike up to his old shenanigans, unfortunately that whole segment is hasty and the rest of the movie's garbage. The "what really happened" explanation is just a loophole for making a movie that's neither necessary nor any good, and so I present to you Halloween: Resurrection.

I'm not going to write any spoilers about what happens to Laurie, but I think anyone who loves the original Halloween and its characters will think what they did with her in this movie is crap and only put her in here for the sake of having Laurie in it.

The characters are plastic. Even by the end of the movie when you get to know all of them a little bit, you don't care enough about them to want to see them escape the wrath of Mike Myers. In fact, you'll probably look forward to their demise at his hands. That's how flat and/or despicable these characters are. Even the lead role doesn't have much personality. She's nice and smart and decent, just like Laurie was in fact, but somehow she doesn't have much personality. I don't think her character was developed enough, otherwise she could have made a good heroine. The rest of the characters are people you pretty much hope get killed off, especially the tech lady played by Tyra Banks and most of the kids that tour the haunted house. Obnoxious people, hastily made characters. And Busta Rhymes plays the typical black dude with a boisterous personality. Not a bad acting job, but what a typical cliché character.

The technology is another factor. Another case of fusing horror with the fancy gimmick of modern technology (or what was modern in 2002 anyways). Just because we have things like reality shows and phone-texting nowadays does not mean it will make a horror movie any scarier, or realistic, or better at all. Having people emailing and playing on their phones and all in the movie takes away from the good old-fashioned terror you get from something as simple as a lurking shadow or the gleam of a butcher knife.

There's a couple of notably cool things in the movie, like when Freddy dresses up like Mike Myers while Mike is there in the flesh and you see two Mikes walking one behind the other. Well that was more funny than anything. The scene with the bong was funny too. And the murder scenes are alright and in typical Mike Myers fashion, but otherwise Resurrection bombs as a horror film and leaves you yet again with no closure, except this time you wouldn't really want to see another sequel.