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Halloween - Resurrection [DVD] [2002]

Jamie Lee Curtis , Busta Rhymes , Rick Rosenthal    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Brad Loree, Bianca Kajlich, Sean Patrick Thomas
  • Directors: Rick Rosenthal
  • Writers: Debra Hill, John Carpenter, Larry Brand, Sean Hood
  • Producers: Bob Weinstein, H. Daniel Gross, Harvey Weinstein
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.
  • DVD Release Date: 1 May 2007
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AE7CE
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,866 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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The eighth entry in the series, Halloween Resurrection maintains connections to John Carpenter's original. A prologue picks up the thread of Halloween: H2O, with poor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) now in a psychiatric hospital and determined to shut down homicidal Michael Myers once and for all. The story then shifts to the old Myers house, where a TV reality show has enticed six teenagers to spend a single night in the spooky home in a plot-line stolen straight from the indie thriller My Little Eye. Needless to say, things are spoiled when Michael barges in: "I so did not sign up for this," sighs the young heroine, when the bloodletting begins. The mayhem is being broadcast live on the Internet, which makes the film a bit like Rear Window with Instant Messaging. The interesting premise is routinely handled, but that's enough to make this one of the better sequels in the series. Maybe they finally finished off Michael in this one, wink wink. --Robert Horton

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Michael Myers, masked serial killer, appears once again in the eigth offering of this horror/slasher series. In the previous film, 'Halloween H2O', Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was seen to finally be rid of her brother/tormentor. This film begins by revealing that in fact it was the wrong person that she beheaded. Confined to a mental institution, she soon falls victim to Myers (Brad Loree). Meanwhile in Haddonfield, Illinois, a group of college students are to star in an online reality show where they spend the night in the killer's childhood home. It isn't long before Michael Myers is stalking them one by one.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars The film that ruins the entire series. 27 July 2003
Format:DVD
Why, when the Halloween series had reached such a successfully satisfying conclusion in 'Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later' did the money grabbing Akkads feel the need to undermine all that H20 had achieved, by completely rewriting the ending?

For those who havn't already seen Resurrection, it won't be giving much away to say that unstoppable killing machine Michael Myers wasn't really killed by his sister Laurie (Jamie-Lee Curtis) at the end of the previous film, and is back to wreak more havoc on a group of unsuspecting Haddonfield teens. However, the rather flimsy and implausable reason given for Myers' 'resurrection' is by no means the most offensive flaw in the film. No, that would be the casting of rapper Busta Rhymes. Playing a cunning internet entrepeuner who plans to show a live webcast of a group of students exploring the house where Michael lived as a child, Rhymes displays a complete lack of talent and ability to act. The inclusion of a rap icon proved successful with LLCoolJ in H20 - who brought humour to the role and provided the script with a carefully limited dose of comedic value. However, Rhymes is annoying, loud and very rarely talks in comprehensible sentences. He gurns his way through the film, performs an embarrassing display of martial arts against Myers, and generally smacks of the producers attempting to include as many aspects into the film that they deem popular with the audience - thus gaining maximum box-office returns.

It has been clear that producer Moustapha Akkad sees the series as nothing more than a sure-fire way to pay the mortgage, but never has it been so evident as in 'Resurrection'. Without giving anything away, the first ten minutes of the film are completely unnecessary and poorly executed, leaving what should be the series' most poignant sequence looking like the most amateurish and embarrassing; in what is supposed to be a steady tracking shot down a corridor, the camera actually wobbles.

Rick Rosenthal (who more than competently handled 'Halloween 2') however, can not be entirely blamed for the film's downfall. The script is uningaging and often embarrassing and sorely missing any of the psycho-babble that Donald Pleasance used to spout in the previous films. That - the only adult or intelligent aspect of the previous films which set the Halloween series apart from its evil cousin 'Friday the 13th'- has now completely disappeared, replaced with a focus on a bland, indistinguishable group of teenagers being methodically buthchered in 'inventive' ways.

However, the film does manage to create a few moments of well crafted suspense. Although the whole intenet aspect is a naff attempt to bring the series into the 21st century (previously failing in 'My Little Eye'), the sequence where one of the characters must follow instuctions from an internet user who can watch Michael's every move is genuinely tense. For a moment. The final scenes are also well carried out - were it not for the presence of Busta Rhymes. The setting of the house proves to be quite spooky at times, although when it is realised that all the scary artifacts from Michael's childhood have merely been set up, any potential for an exploration of Michael's evil is immediately lost.

Of course , for general horror fans, 'Resurrection' will still prove entertaining, though not at all on the same levels as the first two outings or H20, but for die-hard fans of the series, the half-hearted execution of (practically every aspect of) the film (even the music is dire) and undoing of the perfect conclusion to the series in H20, will cause serious frustration.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Mr Ghostface VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
Okay, I'll try to be balanced here. This movie was terrible. I know a lot of people were disappointed in H20 because it is far too similar stylistically to the post-Scream slasher movies, and some because it abandons the storyline of Halloweens 4-6. However, I think that was the correct thing to do seeing as the wider audience is far more familiar with the Jamie Lee Curtis story, which showed in the box office for H2O.
So, three years later, plus an extra one because of production problems, we have Resurrection. And was it worth the wait? Far from it.

The Jamie Lee Curtis cameo was the most ill-conceived idea since they killed off James T. Kirk in a cameo in Star Trek: Generations. We had 20 years and three movies of build-up to the event that was motivating this serial killer, and they deliver the most insulting anti-climax since the aforementioned demise of one starship captain. And what's worse, it's the best 10 minutes of this movie. I don't lay this blame entirely with one party, because what was an ill-conceived idea was then filmed very badly by Rick Rosenthal, and then edited even more slopily in post production. Jamie Lee Curtis should have used her contracted obligatory appearance for something much more useful, like having Myers searching for her the whole movie and then she appears at the end. That would have worked much better. Besides which, Laurie's 'death' is highly ambiguous, given that she is stabbed once and falls from the roof, landing softly on the tree tops. I must admit, that is perhaps the best shot of the movie, but it doesn't totally convince you of anything really. After all, look at dear old Dr Loomis. He burned, he was thrown through a window, he was stabbed, he had an apparently fatal heart attack, and then something incoherent happens to him at the end of H6(!). And you KNOW he would have been in H2O if Donald Pleasance were still alive.

Anyway, moving along... to the score, or rather, to a mediocre version of John Carpenter's classic theme (although how many more 'variations' on that I can take, I don't know). I struggled to pick out any decent new cues throughout the entire film, or to be more accurate, any cues at all! Not a good sign. They might as well have just replaced it with some of Marco Beltrami's score from Scream, as they did in H20.

Basically, there is just no point to this story. The reality TV/internet broadcast thing was already two years past its sell by date, besides which it was done much better in My Little Eye that year. It completely undermines the whole story behind the Halloween movies, whether you prefer the H1, H2, H4, H5, H6 or the H1, H2, H2O, H8 path. After finally dispensing with his sister (until H40!) all he seems to do is a spot of housework, cleaning away an unsympathetic bunch of reality TV partygoers.

And cutting past the chase to the denouement, Resurrection also has perhaps the most impotent and predictable final scene in the whole series. At least the incoherent mess at the end of H6 left you wondering what the hell had happened. Not Resurrection.

If you ever wonder why they stopped making the Halloween sequels and went for the remake, then this movie is all the answer you need.

Lame.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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'Halloween' is fantastic. It is a creative, beautiful and just tremendous 'Slasher Film' that John Carpenter crafted with excellence.
'Halloween: Resurrection' however, is just rubbish.
It's just a general waste of time.
Busta Rhymes? No thanks.
Jamie Lee Curtis? Yes please but lay off these diabolical sequals for your career's sake.

'Halloween: Resurrection' tells the tale of a group of teens who decide to stay over night at the Myer's family home, where the horrific murders of the original film take place, as part of a reality television sitcom about notorious murderers.
You can probably already tell it's going to be bad by the fact it's about a reality television show which lets face it, are the most pointless, mind-numbingly boring and just worthless television shows ever to be thought up of. Why in God's name would you want to sit and watch people doing exactly the same as you? It's just stupid.

This film has cursed the 'Halloween' franchise and I seriously do not recommend this film to anyone.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Not the greatest movie - not the greatest Halloween movie
One for the completist this last entry into the original timeline is little more than a haunted house thriller - it has a few moments but they are few and far between. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. Hevingham
4.0 out of 5 stars 4 Stars for the blu ray release...
Ok so the film is hit or miss depending on who you speak to. If you like the movie then i would recommend this blu ray, I upgraded my DVD edition and can honestly say it was worth... Read more
Published 10 months ago by I. Vaughan
1.0 out of 5 stars The Night he shoudnt have come home.
Awful.This film is awful.H20 redeemed the series and brought closure,then they just got greedy and decided to milk Mike yet again! Read more
Published 22 months ago by D. Mccaffrey
1.0 out of 5 stars A Halloween film with no purpose
The main problem with HR is it really serves no purpose compared to previous Halloween movies.In previous movies Michael is still stalking his intended family member towards the... Read more
Published on 30 April 2010 by Gerry D
1.0 out of 5 stars BORED NOW
well what can i say...its awful.
there is no pace,no(half decent) actors(except JLC for her single scene for Lauries demise)and well no plotline.
a failure... Read more
Published on 16 July 2008 by S. J. Pinder
2.0 out of 5 stars whats the piont
h20 was the best since the first but this one wrecks the series. some good gore but not enough to save it.
Published on 3 May 2008 by Mrs. J. A. Hudson
1.0 out of 5 stars Bollocks!
Myers is back in this excruciating sequel that destroys the series by offering up a laim ass explanation as to why Myers didnt die in H20 when his head was cut off by Laurie... Read more
Published on 1 May 2008 by Peter J. Hodgson
2.0 out of 5 stars Michael should of never been Resurrected.
Halloween resurrection starts good with the confrontation between Michael and laurie then goes to bad to worst... Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2008 by S. Wilcock
3.0 out of 5 stars Just watch the first 15 minutes!
'Halloween Resurrection' is the eighth part of the long-running Halloween series and Michael Myers has returned yet again to brutally murder another group of ill-fated teenagers... Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2007 by Dr Evil
5.0 out of 5 stars In our virtual world what is reality?
John Carpenter is always just as good as good can be because he knows his trade and he knows how to pull the strings that are going to frighten us, terrorize us or just gross us... Read more
Published on 31 July 2007 by Jacques COULARDEAU
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