**I cannot say enough bad about this steaming turd.** Everything about it was absolutely awful. I hate to see Jamie Lee Curtis' name associated with this; as for everyone else, they deserve to have their name drug through the fetid pile of compost this wanna-be film turned out to be. There is NOTHING good, redeeming, promising, or in any other manner positive about this. It sucked balls and should never have been released. Let the cast & crew enjoy a private screening in the privacy of their own little mini-theaters but why expose this reeking tripe to the rest of humanity? What did anyone ever do to you to deserve this? My god, this was absolutely awful. From the atrocious acting, the entire storyline, the utterly ridiculous manipulation of the previous film in some money-grubbing effort to keep milking this already-bloated-and-stinking carcass of a cow, the dialogue, every single thing about this movie sucked raw sewage. When the opening credits named "Busta Rhymes" and Tyra Banks, I knew it was going to reek, but being the OCD masochist that I am, and this being Halloween 2023, I was determined to watch the final film in the "original" _Halloween_ franchise, after enduring the previous seven films. At 28 minutes, _Halloween: Resurrection_ was already dreadful enough that I wanted to turn it off, but I perservered...much to my own torment. You got the feeling that someone, somewhere gave Busta Rhymes some sort of creative liberty to write his own part of the script; how else could he pull some backwater, hayseed Hong Kong Phooey idiocy on Michael Myers and still live through being stabbed to death in the previous moments? Ai yi yi...yes, ladies and gentlemen, **It. Was. That. Bad.**

I've said that there was absolutely nothing good or positive about this film but I'm going to retract that now; there were, in retrospect, two things that I can say brought redeeming qualities to it: (1) The original _Halloween_ theme music has always been a favorite of mine (it helps that I learned to play it on the piano, and it's still fun to play) and (2) the entire film was only 98 minutes long, and 05:47 of that was opening and closing credits that you don't need to subject yourself to. (Spoiler: There are no post-credit surprises here; I watched all the way through. Don't waste your time.)

How a single movie can both "suck" and "blow chunks" at the same time seems kind of physiologically impossible, but this movie pulls off both. Avoid at all costs.

A very fun, very 2000's movie. Busta Rhymes. Reality TV. Exploding internet culture. At first blush, it's just another cash cow to milk the period's slasher flick renaissance by digging up an old horror icon for yet another romp through a pile of corpses. Pay attention though and you'll get a glimpse of what we were all thinking about in an age where technology was changing the world faster than most people could keep up with. DangerTainment is an online streaming platform where people could tune in to watch reality TV, interactively and as it happened. This was 9 years before Twitch and 3 years before YouTube, but the desire was there and so was the sense that anyone could do it. The concept was so new, it seems like a ridiculous scheme in the movie, but we know now that if someone had established DangerTainment in 2002 to even moderate success, they'd likely be billionaires by now. It's a look into a world that's so much like ours in so many ways, but it's just a little off. It's less like seeing people with antiquated technology and more like an alternate reality where we just happen to use Palm Pilots instead of smartphones. Compare this to the original 1978 film where you might forget that Laurie can't call the police from a wrist watch or even than phone lines could be cut by the killer and it's more clear than ever how different the information age is to everything that came before.

Anyways, the movie sucks aggressively.

This. This is truly the low point of the franchise. Worse than the movie with the cult.

Whose idea was it to kill former series protagonist in the first 6 minutes?? whose idea was it to have Busta Rhymes karate kick Michael Myers through a window? Whose idea was it to turn this franchise into a psuedo-reality show?? These are all questions I asked myself during my viewing.

It honestly baffles me that this was made right after H20 which tried to reestablish the series somewhat. All the characters are boring or unlikable, there are loads of naff fake jump scares and Michael is the least scary he has ever been (why when confronted by Busta Rhymes also wearing a mask, does he just walk away??). Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks are also horribly miscast in the movie, with neither offering anything worthwhile and removing any sense of consistent tone.

The only thing this movie has going for it is that it is not taking itself very seriously and that leads to a few unintentionally hilarious moments for the audience (but, may I remind you, this is still labelled a horror movie).

Absolutely terrible. Glad I don't have to watch again. 2/10.

_**Serviceable, but pedestrian and comic booky entry**_

Several college youths agree to be part of a reality TV show where they stay in the dilapidated Myers’ residence in Haddonfield, Illinois. Unbeknownst to them, Michael is still alive and has returned to his home town after stopping by the asylum to visit Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis).

"Halloween Resurrection" (2002) is the seventh installment of the Michael Myers saga (not counting the unrelated “Season of the Witch”) and is the final film in the series until the remakes. It gets a lot of hate because of what happens in the opening act and the inclusion of Busta Rhymes, but it’s serviceable and definitely superior to the lousy “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” (1995). It’s just kinda unimaginative and cartoonish with several bits being hackneyed or predictable by this point.

The feminine department includes Daisy McCrackin (Donna), Katee Sackhoff (Jen), Bianca Kajlich (Sara), and Tyra Banks (Nora). The beautiful women wandering around a rundown domicile and dying one-by-one is reminiscent of “Death Tunnel” (2005) but without the amazing cinematic artistry (even though it cost $11.5 million MORE), not to mention “Death Tunnel” has better women.

"Halloween 4" (1988) is easily the most entertaining of the original series, followed by "Halloween 5" (1989) and “H20” (1998).

The movie runs 1 hour, 34 minutes and was shot mostly in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area with the Hillcrest Academy sequence done at Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

GRADE: C

_Michael Myers: The Reality TV Show!_

...Somehow still less dumb than _Halloween 6_.

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._