When a group of college students win a contest to spend the night in the childhood home of brutal serial killer Michael Myers, they expect a few scares but none of them are prepared for what awaits them. The house has been rigged with cameras as they are to be broadcasted live over the internet to be watched by millions. As they wander around the house in search of some kind of answer for Michael's murderous actions they find a bigger problem. Michael has come home and he does not intend to let anyone leave his house alive.

Halloween returns to Haddonfield in the eighth installment to the franchise. In fact, while the film was in production, it was titled Halloween: The Return to Haddonfield. Which I think is a much better title than Halloween: Resurrection...but we are really just splitting hairs at this point. The concept this time around is a company, called Dangertainment...is hosting a reality webcam based show, where college student go in to the Myers house, and try to discover the secrets of Michael Myers.

Rick Rosenthal, director of Halloween 2, returns as director of this film. And this time we actually get to see is directing style a little more Which isn't bad...but it damn sure isn't good. I really want to read the original script, and the shooting script, to see how much of this is to blame of the writers or director. I understand that they wanted to make things modern. And webcams and reality TV was very popular at the time. Hell, three years earlier Blair Witch Project came out, and broke records at the box office...so this film obviously had to go reality based. But it doesn't not work at all with the Halloween franchise.

First off, Jamie Lee Curtis returns again...but only long enough to give the audience the reveal to how Michael survived the beheading. Turns out Michael is a crafty motherfucker, and put his jump suit and mask on a unsuspecting paramedic. Who knew he was such a thinker. And apparently this was enough to put Laurie in the looney bin, that is until Michael returns to finish what he started back in 1978. That's right boils and ghouls...Laurie gets it in the film. In a, not so touching moment, where they fight it out on the roof...both Laurie and Michael go over the edge, and she lands on his knife. She looks at him, kisses him on the mouth (of the mask that is), and she falls into the darkness, never to be seen again. Too bad, so sad...bye-bye. On to the main story.

I find it hard to believe that anyone who knew the lore of the Myers house, would ever step foot in that house ever...let alone a Halloween. But that's besides the point. This film follows a very simple protocol; kill as many people as possible, we don't are how you get there. And that really sums this movie up. There is no plot for the audience to follow. There are no characters that anyone gives a damn about. And there are kills that just outright do not belong in a Halloween movie. When characters are wandering around the house, and then decide to smell cooking spices in the kitchen (I KNOW HE IS A CHEF, LET IT GO), just to say, “hmmm, these smell fresh.” It is laughable. Then, characters who know there are being streaming live on television, decide to have sex in a grungy basement with bones...that they know are fact, but that's besides the point. They are doing it to keep the audience focused on them during this webcast. And the last thing I'm going to say on the story of this movie, right now, is this...there is a scene where Michael uses his knife, and in one swipe, decapitates a girl. Sure, it made it so we going the Head-cam POV shot of the head rolling down the stairs...but this is something that would never happen in a Halloween movie. Not to mention, how fuckin' sharp is that knife anyway? If I wasn't lost on this movie before this, this is definitely the point where I clocked out on this movie.

Now lets talk about casting...or the lack of it in this case. The characters and actors are horrible. The only reason the majority of these people are even in this movie, is because they were in other popular films at the time. I mean, cast actors that will give believable performances...don't cast them because they were in a popular comedy at the time. It doesn't work that way. And the fact that Tyra Banks is in this movie floored me. Sure, she was fresh off of Coyote Ugly (see where I was going there), but she is not an actress. If they were casting for a model who has no dialogue...sure, cast her all day long. The one thing I was looking forward to, was seeing her die. Shit, they all but showed it in the trailers...so I was on pins and needles the entire movie waiting for this to happen...and then all of a sudden, she is found dead. WHAT THE FUCK!!! They didn't even how the one death that would have made watching this abomination tolerable. Poor choices people...poor fuckin' choices.

And the last bit of casting mistakes I'm going to talk about is this. In the last film, they had LL Cool J, and I guess he was somewhat popular (I didn't see it), so they thought long and hard on who to get for this film...and the obvious choice was....Busta Rhymes? Are you kidding me? I guess because he was in Higher Learning, Shaft, and Finding Forrester, that it made him an notable actor. I don't know. But this character of Freddie...owner of Dangertainment is the most painful thing to watch in the entirety of this film. And for some reason they decided to make him some sort of a kung-fu master. I literally just had to shake me head, and cover my eyes. However, he does deliver the best line in the film. And it occurs to me now, that I can't believe it took them so long in the franchise, to come up with the line, “trick-or-treat motherfucker.” But maybe it is just the way he delivers the line, that makes it so great. That must have been how he got this role.

This is a disaster of a film. But I still had to purchase it on DVD when it came out...and of course Blu-ray...and it was then, where I saw the genius of what this film could have been. On the special features, there are three or four alternate ending, with an introduction from director Rick Rosenthal on them. And the original idea was, to have a total of four or five different endings, and every market would get a different ending. That is a great idea...it was what they did with Clue when it was in theaters. That would have made this more interesting. And I think it would have brought more money in at the box office...because I for one would hit up different theaters to see the endings if I knew there were multiple endings. But hey, opportunity lost, and what we got, is what we got.

I cannot recommend this movie as a good Halloween movie, or as a good horror movie. It's just bad all the way around. So save your time, and skip this movie completely. Trust me...you'll thank me later.

Till Next Time Kiddies...

-RJ