10 Dumbest Moments In The Halloween Series

Halloween: Resurrection opened with a twist so hairbrained that it broke the series and forced the studio to reboot. In the previous movie, there was a sense of poetic justice when Laurie Strode decapitated her murderous brother 20 years after his bloody reign of terror had begun, but the sequel took little more than one scene to undo all of that.

It turned out that Laurie actually killed a hapless paramedic Michael had switched clothes with before concealing his face with his trademark Shatner mask. Why didn't the unlucky first-aider cry out for help right before the axe fell? Because Myers had crushed his larynx, rendering him conveniently mute. Of course he did.

'Conveniently' is the optimum word here because everything about this flashback scene is overly convenient and ridiculously far-fetched, even for a franchise with nonsensical druidic curses, invincible serial killers and multiple timelines.

The whole thing smacked of desperation to make another sequel because the previous film performed better than expected at the box office. It was the kind of idea you'd laugh at if you read it in a piece of bad fan fiction. To make matters worse, it undermined the ending of Halloween H20, not to mention the series as a whole.