10 Awful Movie Death Retcons EVERYONE Hated

You can nitpick about whether this is a true retcon or not, but let's face facts - everyone who watched Halloween H20 and saw Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) decapitate Michael Myers (Chris Durand) with an axe had no doubt that he was finally dead for good.

But four years later, Halloween: Resurrection was released, and revealed in its opening sequence that the man wearing the Michael Myers mask who lost his head wasn't actually Michael at all.

Rather, at the last minute, Michael attacked a paramedic, swapped clothes with him, and crushed his larynx to ensure he couldn't scream out to Laurie and identify himself.

Beyond undermining the end of H20 and turning Laurie into an accidental killer of an innocent man, it was just an eye-rollingly contrived, lazy revelation that had fans doubting the movie from the jump. The fact that Laurie was then killed by Michael a few minutes later sure didn't help, either.

While it's basically expected that our most iconic horror villains will never truly die, Michael's resurrection truly stretched the bounds of credibility past snapping point. A nonsensical supernatural explanation would've felt much less infuriating than this.