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.
(2002) The characters are all paper-thin, whereas even in the previous films (except for H20) we had strong characters. Here, everyone just hangs around waiting to get hacked, in death scenes that seem more like Friday the 13th than Halloween. For the most part, the actors are unknowns in stock roles--they're able to scream and shout on cue--but that's about it. Busta Rhymes wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting him to be, but he seems to have been cast more because of his own popularity than anything else. Tyra Banks, also, is cast simply to draw a crowd, and she really does nothing but sit in front of a bank of computer monitors and drink coffee for most of the film. There are some minor highlights, but not many. Brad Loree does an excellent job of playing Michael Myers the way he should be, making up for the awful Chris Durand interpretation in H20. The mask is about as close to the original as we're likely to get, but still has some problems with it, mostly a little too much hair and the fact we can see his eyes, a part of him that was very rarely seen in the previous films and helped generate a lot of mystery. But he has the menacing walk down perfect. Danny Lux's musical score returns to what made the previous films' scores work, by underlining the on-screen events instead of highlighting, like with John Ottman's overblown H20 score. And the atmosphere is terrific. As he did with Halloween 2 twenty-one years ago, director Rick Rosenthal brings a great sense of atmosphere to the film that menacingly exploits pools of light and shadow, and several shots of Myers hiding in the dark are truly creepy images. The sequence involving the one girl finding Michael's lair in the sewer underneath the house is very nicely filmed. So the film at least looks nice, which is not something that can be said about H20. And the Myers house itself, from the outside, has been recreated very much like the original, though the interior is (to fans) noticeably messed up. But for the most part, it was another failed attempt. I fear the glory days of the Halloween series--when they had characters you liked and stories that were simple yet helped the films develop more than other horror series--is over, having ended with Halloween 6, and now the films are turning into just pail Scream wannabes. The rights should be taken away from the Weinstein brothers and given to an independent company, like some of the previous ones, a company that will respect the fans and the previous films in the series.
 -Was first named "Halloween: The Homecoming" but producers wanted a title that said Michael Myers is alive so in Feburary 2002, the film was officially named Halloween: Resurrection. -Was originally set for a release date of September 21st 2001, but producers at Dimension Films wanted the film to be stronger so reshoots took place from September to October 2001. -Director Rick Rosenthal previously directed Halloween II - 21 years earlier. -The Halloween: Resurrection trailer was first seen before Jason X which was released on the 26th of April 2002. -The name Jen Danzig is a reference to Glenn Danzig, the singer of the former Misfits leader whom wrote and sung the songs Halloween and Halloween II before the original movie was released. The two songs have little to do with the movies since their lyrics do not even touch the main plot. -Jamie Lee Curtis was contractually obligated to do at least a 30-second cameo, but she liked the script so much that she increased her involvement in the opening scene. -Tyra Banks' character's death was cut. You can still see the aftermath in the movie. -A picture of Josh Hartnett, who played Laurie Strode's son John in H2O, can be seen on the wall above Laurie's bed in the sanitarium. -The name of the psychology professor at Haddenfield University is Dr. Mixler. This is the same name of the doctor in Halloween II that was treated Laurie Strode and was killed by Michael Myers with a needle in the eye. -Three endings were shot regarding the fate of Freddie Harris. -Producers considered Danielle Harris who played Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5 for a role in Halloween: Resurrection. -Michael Myers is not given credit for any of the murders that occur in Halloweens' 4, 5, or 6. A sanitarium resident even notes that Myers was not heard from for the twenty years between the events that occur in Halloween 2 and Halloween H20. -Bianca Kajlich cannot scream and her screams had to be dubbed in post production. -In the first scene at the college, Sara Moyer is shown twirling her hair, much like Laurie Strode does in the class room scene in the original Halloween.
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