Halloween: Resurrection

“Halloween: Resurrection,” released in 2002, the eighth film with every sequel John Carpenter’s 1978 original continues to get pale and have its name pulled further into shame. In this one, six college students (Thomas Ian Nicholas, Daisy McCrackin, Katee Sackhoff, Luke Kirby, Sean Patrick Thomas and Bianca Kajlich) are chosen by TV producer Freddie (Busta Rhymes) to spend a night in serial killer Michael Myers’ (Brad Loree) home as part of a haunted house type webcast. Can you guess who decides to make a cameo?

Harry Guerin is right when he stated in his review, “89 minutes long and none of them scary, Rick Rosenthal's attempts to bring a 'Blair Witch' edge to Halloween fall flat mainly because the series became 'Three Stooges' style horror a long time ago.” The beginning with Laurie guesses that this will be at least watchable but once he kills her (maybe since he’s indestructible, it might run in the family) it’s one cliché after another.

Guerin said, “Rubber heads and lines are the order of the night as Myers becomes miffed at the home invasion and gets the wrong idea about the term 'student body'. Doing his bit to make sure the world cutlery market never experiences a downturn, the heavy breathing yet incredibly fit knifeman goes on the rampage - until the brainy Kajlich realises that it's probably best to escape Chez Myers.”

Little is needed of anyone except to scream or look good, with the casting of Rhymes, super model and TV host Tyra Banks and “American Pie’s” Thomas probably the most alarming thing about the movie. Despite that some fine camera work within the dark hallways of the house – it’s a shame that what the lens is following would bore you to sleeping.

If there’s any life left in Michael Myers maybe someone with a big of thought can make a prequel to wash this bad taste since 1978. Other than that, just kill the man already.

As you might have guessed, this is the worst in the “Halloween” franchise. We don’t like the college students and we don’t care if they get killed by Michael or not. It’s a shame that Jamie Lee Curtis got Laurie killed off in the beginning of the movie, but you know what, I’m happy they did so that she didn’t put herself through another bad sequel. This one definitely can get a pass since you will not like this one at all. There is nothing saving this film from being so painfully bad.

Whew, it’s a relief I finally got that over with. Alright everyone, last night I saw the latest installment in the “Child’s Play” series, so I will review the film later today. In the meantime, I have to clean my thoughts out of this film.