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Halloween: Resurrection

Play trailer Poster for Halloween: Resurrection R Released Jul 12, 2002 1h 30m Holiday Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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He's back for more... When a group of teens win a contest to spend a night in Michael Myers' childhood home to be broadcast live on the Internet, they believe they are in for a little fun and some free publicity. But things go frightfully wrong and the game turns into a struggle to make it out of the house alive.
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The only thing this tired slasher flick may resurrect is nostalgia for when the genre was still fresh and scary.

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Aja Romano Vox Stay away unless you like kitschy early internet nostalgia and lots of blurry found-footage trickery. Oct 19, 2018 Full Review Joe Leydon Variety [Seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels. Jul 15, 2002 Full Review Daphne Gordon Toronto Star While the production values here are more cool than crappy, there's nothing really new about Resurrection. Rated: 2/5 Jul 15, 2002 Full Review Brian Rowe InSession Film Here’s another entry that can be completely wiped from existence, and everybody would be better off. May 3, 2023 Full Review David Gonzalez The Cinematic Reel Halloween: Resurrection is an embarrassment to a franchise that I hold near and dear to my heart. A franchise that has entertained viewers for the past 40 years and its fans deserved more than this film. Rated: .5/4 Jan 31, 2023 Full Review Cody Leach Cody Leach (YouTube) This movie is an insult to fans and the franchise. Myers feels artificially inserted into a generic 2000's slasher and he is treated as a joke rather than the face of the series. And we won't talk about the baffling treatment of Laurie Strode. Rated: 1.5/5 Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Garrett P. There’s some corny one-liners that make me giggle but this should’ve wrapped up the franchise for good. The Akkads have to stop. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/04/25 Full Review Cooper J. I rate this film 1 out of 5 on the busta rhymes scale Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/27/25 Full Review Allan C For a franchise with pretty mixed results, HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION is a major low point. The film starts with a good opening scene with Jamie Lee Curtis pulling a Janet Leigh PSYCHO appearance and a decent explanation of how Michael Meyers is back after having his head chopped off at the end of the last film. However, the rest of the film is about a Halloween night PPV livestream event where a group of obnoxious young people spend the night in the Myer’s Murder House. Myers returns to his house, and the idiotic young people all think it’s the livestream producers messing with them, not realizing the real Myers has come home again. Slasher films aren’t known for clever plots, but they should deliver some creative gory kills, a bit of suspense, and maybe a dash of humor (by 2002, they’d dropped gratuitous nudity). Although the film boasts director Rick Rosenthal (HALLOWEEN II, BAD BOYS [the Sean Penn one, not the Will Smith one]) returning to the franchise, a terrible script, a limited budget, and a mostly annoying cast, there’s not a lot to like here. You do get a young Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) in her first major film role, which is fun, but outside of that, and a good opening scene with Curtis, it’s a super annoying film and the one film in the franchise I do not plan on revisiting.  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/15/25 Full Review Carlos I Halloween: Resurrection, for all its flaws, will always have a special place for its opening, which effectively washed away the stink of Halloween H20. While one can appreciate its pivot into full-blown, almost self-aware camp, with some genuinely fun elements, it's hard not to feel a pang of disappointment that a series with such an iconic legacy ultimately descended into this kind of treatment. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/30/25 Full Review Garry A This was straight up garbage. They had Laurie doubting herself and making herself vulnerable in a way that she never would. They made Michael a joke and look weak. I thought 5 was the worst but nah, this is. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/25 Full Review John R It had it's moments. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/14/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis He's back for more... When a group of teens win a contest to spend a night in Michael Myers' childhood home to be broadcast live on the Internet, they believe they are in for a little fun and some free publicity. But things go frightfully wrong and the game turns into a struggle to make it out of the house alive.
Director
Rick Rosenthal
Producer
Paul Freeman
Screenwriter
Larry Brand, Sean Hood, John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Larry Brand
Production Co
Dimension Films, Trancas International Films Inc., Nightfall Productions
Rating
R (Language|Brief Drug Use|Some Sexuality|Strong Violence)
Genre
Holiday, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 12, 2002, Wide
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Oct 25, 2002
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$30.3M
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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