10 Horror Movie Cliffhangers Nobody Cared About

Honestly, many Halloween fans were just baffled at the sheer existence of the eighth film, Halloween: Resurrection, given that predecessor Halloween H20 quite unambiguously ended with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) decapitating Michael Myers (Chris Durand) with an axe.

But Resurrection brought him back with a crude, lazy retcon, before killing Laurie off in its opening sequence and otherwise unfolding as a garden variety Halloween movie - albeit with a toe-curlingly early-2000s tech angle that's predictably aged horribly.

Anyone expecting Resurrection to actually make good on H20's near-ending to the series was left out of luck, given that after Michael is apparently burned to death at the end of the film, he's collected by the coroner and - surprise! - his eyes suddenly open in the final shot.

All but the most die-hard, easily-pleased of Halloween fans were surely all out of enthusiasm for the series at this point, reflected by Resurrection's commercial underperformance, grossing just half of what H20 did.

The interest in another movie where Michael rampages around Haddonfield was all tapped out, and so the franchise was put on ice for five years until it was given the short-lived reboot treatment courtesy of Rob Zombie, with wildly polarising results.