HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION

HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION brings back the mad killer with the butcher knife, Michael Myers, for the seventh time. In the story, two black Internet producers of online material ask six young people to spend several nights in Michael’s abandoned family home, to learn the secret of what drove Michael to murder one of his sisters, an act depicted in the very first movie. The producers will televise the people’s experiences over the Internet. Leading the pack of young victims is a young college student named Sara, who literally takes the place of Jamie Lee Curtis, the star of the first two or three HALLOWEEN movies, as the heroine.

HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION tries to capitalize on the clever themes of voyeurism and relentless evil in the first movie. For instance, before going into the house, Sara makes Internet friends with a high school student, who tries to help her survive Michael’s attacks while he and his friends watch what happens on the World Wide Web. This thematic cleverness saves RESURRECTION from being perfectly worthless, quality wise. In effect, the movie is comparing the Internet viewers in the movie with those moviegoers who might actually go to see HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION. This clever storytelling technique does not, however, lift the story above average aesthetically speaking, nor can it redeem the movie’s lurid use of violence, sex, nudity, and marijuana use. Ultimately, though, it’s the violence and foul language here that’s most excessive.