Review of Halloween: Resurrection (2002) by Russell G — 07 Nov 2012

Just when you thought that is all there was to the Halloween series... Even after Michael Meyers was decapitated (or was he?) there is always more money to be made from the masked murderer. This movie takes a far more lighthearted approach than any movie of series by sending a reality webcast/TV show into the infamous Meyers House for one night.

It sounds like a terrible idea but the execution is really not all that bad. The thing that bothered me with the exception of the first scene or two this movie did not have to be about Michael Meyers, and it may have done better by creating a new killer and distancing themselves from the countless sub-par sequels.

Most of the movie works pretty well, but then it totally gets away from itself at the end with massive reality gaps and some major inconsistencies. It is also a victim of the time and suffers the same set of problems that most scary movies from the late 90s to early 00s have, most notably bad support characters.

There is a lot of overacting which leads to overly annoying, flat, and dumb teenage characters that the viewer does not connect with. It is hard to feel the impact when only there are so many stereotypical mean and annoying characters and they are the only ones that die.