Movie Review: Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

tonight's feature: Halloween: Resurrection (2002) on DVD
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Halloween: Resurrection is not the worst movie in the franchise, but it makes a compelling case. Basically, after the last episode (Halloween H20) where Laurie Strode chopped off the head of Michael Myers (surprise! it wasn't him) now Michael returns 3 years later to finally kill Laurie for real this time in a sanitarium. Then he returns to his childhood home a year later to hang around and kill people. Again we have the Wish version of the Myers mask which is now getting depressing.

Busta Rhymes character Freddie has a production company called "Dangertainment" and will stream (poorly) on the 2002 internet the adventures of 6 college students who brave the night in the Myers old family home. Did I mention it was on Halloween night? Anyways, at one point Busta Rhymes is wearing an identical mask and jumpsuit as Michael Myers, creeping about to scare the students, completely unaware he is being stalked by the real Michael Myers. Soon he thinks it's his assistant and yells at him before Michael wanders off. A bunch of the students die.

Despite the livestream being completely blurry and awful, it still attracts an entire party's worth of youngsters watching and eventually one begins texting our main character, Sara (Bianca Kajlich), Michael's location to help her escape. The worst offenses are saved for Busta Rhymes, who apparently is a karate nut and tries to fight Myers with fancy kicks and insults. But he does shock Michael Myers in the dick with a live wire and for that we are grateful. Then everything is on fire and we have to hear Busta Rhymes say ridiculous stuff like "burn, motherfucker, burn!" and "hey mikey, happy halloween!" and "trick or treat, motherfucker" before we realize once again that Michael Myers is alive at the end.

One reviewer said "It's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even Jason X look positively Shakespearian by comparison." No wonder they had to reboot the franchise. 3 chainsaws that break down when you're trying to kill the bad guy out of 10.