Premise: A reality show has a live internet feed of people staying in Michael Myers' old house, and guess who shows up.
Can we talk about how insane the Halloween franchise is? John Carpenter makes the original. It's an indie hit. He dreams of making Halloween a sort of anthology franchise but is convinced to make (produce and write) Halloween II, which is a retread of the original. They then attempt the anthology idea with Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Despite actually being pretty good, people revolt and make it clear that Halloween = Michael Myers, it takes six years for Halloween to come back with another Michael Myers movie that feels quite low rent. That begins a trilogy centered around his niece coming out in 1988, 1989, and [another gap] 1995. A few years later, they do a soft reboot of the franchise with H20, more in the vein of the teen friendly Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer kind of horror movies. It does OK. 4 years later, they bring the series back again with Halloween: Resurrection, trying to tap into the Blair Witch Project success. It takes a few more years off before in 2007, Rob Zombie frees the series from its tortured timeline and makes a pair of movies in his image. They finally give people enough time to miss the franchise, and 9 year later come out with another soft reboot that finally realizes that Laurie Strode is as important to the franchise as Michael Myers. Two more sequels on the way.
That's nuts, right?
If Halloween: Resurrection isn't the saddest installment, then I'm very worried about what I have to look forward to. The one good thing I can say about this movie is that it understood how the internet and an amateur footage conceit could be used. It certainly didn't master it, but it was right about trying to integrate that. Everything else is awful. It's not trying to be scary at all. It's just a slasher. The characters are forgettable. There's a whole unconnected opening with Laurie Strode that feels like it was shot afterwards when they realized the movie was too short. Even with that, this thing clocks in at barely 90 minutes. The only fun of the movie is remembering when casting Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks was a hip thing to do and seeing a young Katee Sackhoff and Luke Kirby. It's safe to say, if there was one Halloween movie that the producers could just wipe away, it would be this one.
Verdict: Strongly Don't Recommend
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