'' is a '' and just like the former, effectively ignores the continuity established during the 4th, 5th, and 6th installments.
The film begins three years after the events of ''Halloween: H20''. -->A
Retcon is established in which Laurie did not really decapitate
Michael Myers at the end of the previous film, but rather a paramedic with whom Myers forcefully switched clothing and his mask. Laurie pretends to be heavily medicated, but in reality dodges her pills and prepares herself for the inevitable confrontation with Michael Myers that she knows will come. When Myers does appear, Laurie lures him into a trap, but before she can kill him for good, he turns the tables on her and she presumably dies after being stabbed and falling from the roof of the institution.
A year later, a group of six college students win a competition to appear on a reality show on which they are to spend Halloween night in the childhood home of Michael Myers. Their mission is to find out what led him to kill. The investigation is done in the style of the
MTV Reality Show , ''
Fear '' and is broadcast live on the internet. The participants think the show is entirely for entertainment purposes and that the stunt will earn them some publicity and scholarship money. While in the house, the event goes horribly wrong as Michael returns home and one by one, kills the students and the crew involved in the broadcast. Soon, all but one of the college students are murdered. Using her
PDA and
Penpal on the outside, Sara escapes. Ultimately, only Sara Myer and
Freddie Harris , the host of the show, survive. Toward the end Myers dies of electrocution and is taken to a morgue, where a frightened female mortician slowly opens his body bag. He opens his eyes and the mortician screams as the screen goes black and the final credits begin to roll.
- Security Guard: Decapitated (off-screen), his head is shown in the washing machine
- Willie: Throat slit with a butcher knife
- Laurie Strode: Upon being pulled off the roof, she is stabbed in the back as she lands on Michael's knife and she is thrown off the roof of the institution
- Charlie: Stabbed in the neck with a camera tripod leg
- Bill: Stabbed numerous times,then in the head
- Donna: Impaled on a rusty pipe
- Jen: Decapitated with a butcher knife
- Jim: Head crushed by Micheal's bare hands
- Rudy: Pinned to a wall with 3 knives
- Nora: Stabbed and hanged (off-screen)
"Halloween Resurrection" was released on July 12th 2002 in the US to extremely poor reviews; which didn't change when it was later released in other countries. Its opening weekend on US screens raked in $12,292,121 and overall the film earned a moderate $30,354,442.
It garnered an 11% on rottentomatoes.com. Lou Lumenick of the ''
New York Post '' said, “It’s so devoid of joy and energy it makes even ‘
Jason X ’ look positively Shakespearian by comparison.” Dave Kehr of the ''
New York Times '' said, “Spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen, not screaming but yawning.” Peter Travers of ''
Rolling Stone '' magazine said, “Every sequel you skip will be two hours gained. Consider this review life-affirming.” Joe Leydon of ''
Variety '' said, “
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San Jose Mercury News '' was slightly more positive: “No, it’s not as single-minded as John Carpenter’s original, but it’s sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels.” In fact many critics as well as fans debate that the series should have ended with the death of Micheal Myers in H20. Fans of the series say that this movie was only made to reawaken the series so the producer could make more money off of it.
