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Halloween - Resurrection (2002)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 51

The only thing this tired slasher flick may resurrect is nostalgia for when the genre was still fresh and scary.

13

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 14

The only thing this tired slasher flick may resurrect is nostalgia for when the genre was still fresh and scary.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 86,621

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Movie Info

Masked serial killer Michael Myers makes his seventh appearance in the eighth installment of this long-running slasher series. Although the climax of the previous installment, Halloween: H20, depicted heroine Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finishing off her brother/tormentor, the opening sequence of Halloween: Resurrection reveals that Laurie actually beheaded the wrong guy. Now confined to a mental institution, she quickly falls victim to her brother and longtime foe (played this time

R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Horror

Larry Brand, Sean Hood

Dec 10, 2002

$30.3M

Dimension Films

Cast

All Critics (60) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (52) | DVD (6)

[Seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels.

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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While the production values here are more cool than crappy, there's nothing really new about Resurrection.

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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A cheesy thing that opened Friday without any advance screening.

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen, not screaming but yawning.

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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It's not the worst film in the series -- Halloween III will never be unseated -- but there's not nearly enough scares, or humor, to make Halloween: Resurrection worthwhile.

July 15, 2002 Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Generic slasher-movie nonsense, but it's not without style.

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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Provides the Halloween franchise with a clear, objective Worst Movie Of The Series...a virtually flawless collection of all the things that can make a slasher film unwatchable.

September 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

A pretty funny comedy starring the one, the only, the incomparable...Busta Rhymes.

October 28, 2005 Comment

It follows the basic formula with just enough of a fresh variation to make the inevitable mayhem worth waiting for.

November 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie City News | Comment
Movie City News

A única pessoa que se deu bem com este filme foi Jamie Lee Curtis, que garantiu sua saída definitiva da série.

July 25, 2003 Comment
Cinema em Cena

A Blair Witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera, with passable performances from everyone in the cast.

June 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Halloween: Resurrection is surprisingly effective, especially the opening sequence featuring the showdown between Laurie and Michael.

April 19, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Rubber heads and lines are the order of the night.

March 5, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

...frenetically paced, totally predictable, and ultimately laughable.

December 8, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis

...one resurrection too many.

December 8, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis

Only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives, still with the boiler suit and white mask, which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry.

November 3, 2002 Comment

An unsatisfying hybrid of Blair Witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare, where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living.

August 22, 2002 Full Review | Comment

The movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession, and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the "webcast."

August 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Blather | Comment
Film Blather

Resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad Blair Witch Project.

July 26, 2002 Full Review | Comment (1)
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

The only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game. You try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored.

July 20, 2002 Full Review | Comment
Internet Reviews

Sad nonsense, this. But not without cheesy fun factor.

July 18, 2002 Comment
New Times

Cannot revive a franchise that has been worn out since its first sequel.

July 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Mark Reviews Movies | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Halloween - Resurrection

Certainly better than some of the awful films this series has produced along the way, but still a kick in the face to everything Carpenter was trying to accomplish with the original. This time we have the director of Halloween II back at the helm (Rick Rosenthal, the first person to tarnish the series with the first

November 1, 2011
jlewis07

Super Reviewer

Freddie Harris: Michael Myers is a killer shark. In baggy ass overalls who gets his kicks from killing everyone and everything he comes across. "Michael's work in Haddonfield is not done yet."Not only is Halloween: Resurrection the second worst film in the franchise, and the worst one that actually has Michael Myers in

October 23, 2011
blkbomb
Melvin White

Super Reviewer

    1. Freddie Harris: Trick or treat, motherfucker!
    – Submitted by Paul B (5 months ago)
    1. Freddie Harris: (fighting Michael Myers) Let's see what you got!
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Jen Danzig: (talking to Bill; before smacking him) You are, like, this close to getting voted off the island.
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Freddie Harris: (dressed as Michael Myers; talking to the REAL Michael Myers) I'm not paying you to be Michael Myers! I'm playin Michael Myers! And if them kids come around and see us dressed up in the same sh*t, it's going to ruin the whole effect! God damn it! What the hell is wrong with you? I said what are you looking at me like that for? (the REAL Michael still doesn't make any movements) Huh? You don't get it? You don't get it? Your shit up there ain't workin or something? Huh? You need to get your ass back in the garage with Nora! That's your job! Go back in there and help her ass out! Go do your job! I left the back door unlocked for your ass to go out the back and into the garage! That's what I did! You need to get the hell out of here! Go on! Skoot! Skadattle! Get the fu*k out of Dodge! (the REAL Myers finally walks away) God damn it, what the hell does somebody gotta do to get a little decent help up in this motherfu*ker?
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Donna: This whole place looks like some sadistic playpen.
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)

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