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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: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Dimension
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Dec 2002
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006LPHA
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,689 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Just watch the first 15 minutes!, 10 Oct 2007
By KM (England) - See all my reviews
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'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 with his unusually large kitchen knife and various other sharp objects. This time round, an internet-based broadcast company (lead by Busta Rhymes) is about to show a live feed from within the abandoned Myers' house where the group of unfortunates, fitted with head cameras, must spend Halloween night there and gather clues to why Michael did what he did all those years ago. Little do they know that the real Michael Myers is in the house with them.

It all sounds like it could be a good film with a new twist to the usual formula, but unfortunately it is poorly executed with bad acting (especially from the very irritating Tyra Banks), rubbish script and annoying and cheap camera-work (mainly from the head cameras). The film actually begins very well before all of this happens, where Michael visits the mental institution where Laurie Strode (the lead character from some of the previous Halloween films) has been staying since after H2O and attempts to finish her off for good. If this had of been the basis of the whole film it would have been a winner but it goes rapidly down-hill once this scene is over.

Overall this is a poor addition to the series that was trying to make the most of the personal camera theme that was very popular at the time in the horror genre, with other films like The Blair Witch Project and My Little Eye successfully pulling it off, but it really doesn't work here. I've given this film 3 stars only for the first 15 minutes (the Laurie scene) as this does finish off that storyline very well, but the rest of the film would have to be given a 2/5 at the most.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars The film that ruins the entire series., 27 Jul 2003
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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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Are you dumb enough to spend the night in the Myers house?, 17 Oct 2003
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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The title "Halloween - Resurrection" has an ironic dimension because at face value you would think it has to do with bringing back the character of Michael Myers from the dead, since he was killed by his sister, Laurie (Jamie Leigh Curtis) at the end of "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later." But actually what they are trying to revive here is the "Halloween" franchise. This 2002 film is a sequel to 1998 film, which makes it the eighth film in the series, which is a bit misleading because "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" had nothing to do with the rest of the series and movies four through six were completely ignored in the last two films (at least I think that they were) to explain the return of Laurie Strode. This also helps to explain the return of Rick Rosenthal as director, who directed "Halloween II," the original sequel in all this fun.

"Halloween - Resurrection" offers a rather lengthy prologue, the purpose of which is to effectively reset the Michael Myers story. The result is that I have not been so ticked off at the opening of a movie since "Alien 3" undid one of my all time favorite movies ("Aliens") by the end of the title credits. A similar affrontery is provided in this film, and, no, I do not buy the idea this is simply an homage to the beginning of "Friday the 13th Part 2." Anyhow, this film ends up starting off with one foot in the grave by opening with such a complete downer.

What is prologue is past when we get to the actual story of the film. At this point as an audience you simply need to have the same level of knowledge as the characters: what Michael Myers did in the first two "Halloween" films. The initial premise of the story is the old chesnut about a group of people who agree to spend the night in a haunted house, the brainchild of Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes). In this case we are talking about six college students and the house in question is the Myers house in Haddonfield, Illinois, where Michael killed his sister Judith on Halloween night in 1963. But this particular old chesnut is provided with a 21st century twist: all of those young kids on the dinner menu are going to be wired with web-cams. There are additional cameras all over the Myers house. This is because this entire experience is going to be shown on the Internet.

This makes "Halloween - Resurrection" something of a meta-film experience, because eventually we are watching the kids at the party who are watching the kids at the Myers house being sliced and diced by Michael. Of course despite all the cameras and monitors nobody notices that anybody is being killed (those watching on the Internet just assume it is part of the show--at least at first). But in the end, all that technology might just make it possible for one of these kids to make it out alive. You would have thought that all this technology would make for a badly needed infusion of creativity into a slasher flick like this, but you would be mistaken. The point here is simply to add another level of voyeurism to the experience. The assumption is the audience can relate to this, which would explain why there are characters in this film who think having sex in this house while being watched on the Internet is a good thing. The fact this is an above average entry in the series speaks to the general shlock of the genre more than the relative quality of this film.

Final Comment: We understand now that Michael Meyer's driving goal from the very beginning is to kill his sisters. He gets Judith in the beginning of "Halloween" and spends most of the rest of the films in the "official" quartet trying to get Laurie. My assumption has always been that if he were to get to that point something significant would happen. Apparently not...

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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 12 months ago 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 14 months ago 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 14 months ago 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 18 months ago by S. Wilcock

4.0 out of 5 stars AN UNDERRATED ENTRY
After three years, the real Michael Myers has found Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in an asylum and proceeds to kill her. Read more
Published 20 months ago by stuart

1.0 out of 5 stars Atrocious. Not Even Worth Picking Up To Look At The Box.
'Halloween' is fantastic. It is a creative, beautiful and just tremendous 'Slasher Film' that John Carpenter crafted with excellence. Read more
Published 20 months ago by ChrisHaydon

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 23 months ago by Jacques COULARDEAU

1.0 out of 5 stars A (busta) crime against humanity
Obviously looking at the rating I've given and the review title, you can tell I'm not a fan.

Now I know that horror movies are cliched and that these dumb things... Read more
Published on 13 April 2007 by Mr. A. Sands

1.0 out of 5 stars disapointing
i can't believe they killed of jamie lee. she was the main person throughout the whole halloween movies and to kill her off was unberlievable. Read more
Published on 21 May 2006 by Mr. J. Hughes-roberts

3.0 out of 5 stars Meh..
This film would have been better if not for the cheesy characters and a plot totally irrelevant to the rest of the series. So, how is it irrelevant? Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2006 by TomBeTom

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