A Look At Halloween Resurrection, or “I Think I Downloaded the Wrong Freddy vs Michael”

One of the hardest tasks when it comes to talking about movies is trying to find something new to say. There comes a point where people will inevitably begin to lap around their own words. As I sit here typing this introduction out, I can’t help but wonder what else I could bring to the matter of Halloween Resurrection, a movie that is notorious for putting the Halloween series into the grave, at least until Rob Zombie came along (I’m sure we’ll come back and take a look at those movies some day).

The film picks up three years after the events of H20, and we find Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in a psychiatric hospital. This brings back memories of Halloween 2 from 1981 with its hospital setting (funnily enough, Rick Rosenthal directed the 1981 flick as well as the film we’re talking about today, and makes a small cameo as a college professor), and a psychiatric hospital could have been an interesting backdrop for a Halloween film. Instead, we only get to be here for 15 minutes. In those 15 minutes, we see Michael Myers (Brad Loree) finally kill off his sister. Oh, and Michael survived his decapitation in the last film by actually putting his mask on someone else, causing Laurie to experience immense guilt. Laurie’s death is supposed to be played up as this big dramatic moment, but it feels hollow (where’s her son?). The only interesting aspect of this scene is that Michael tricks Laurie into thinking he’s an innocent person whom Michael made to wear his mask…