8/9/02
Movie
Halloween Resurrection
This eighth instalment of the popular Halloween franchise begins three years after the conclusion of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (#7). Laurie Strode must face off against Michael for a final time. This time things will be different. A new reality show is going to be filmed in the old boarded up Myers house. Six people have been selected to spend a night in the house and investigate what may have caused Michael to begin his reign of terror and murder. Each person is equipped with a compact camera on a simple headgear and other cameras are placed strategically around the house. The audience (in the movie) will be able to tune in on the internet and switch between cameras however they wish and focus on who ever they want. Michael is not too happy about the arrangement and goes about his usual "work" as the show films.
Halloween Resurrection brings forth a movie that is much truer to the original vision of the first two movies. Mind you there is blood though it is not the focus like other films. It's more horror than slasher. The tension is back, along with the fear, and of course expectancy of Michael around every corner. The direction is good, the acting is good if not spectacular, and the atmosphere is there. The set for the Myers house is really good but some of the autumn atmosphere shots elsewhere seem ever so slightly made up. The film has a good musical score that adds to the film in all of the right places. The script could have been tightened a little more in a few places and made what is a decently tense film into something more powerful. As such it lacks that extra oomph but still on that level this eighth film isn't too shabby even if compared to the first film.
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