10 Horror Movies That Should've Scrapped Their Opening Scene

Halloween: Resurrection has a near-unmatched level of vitriol directed towards it by fans, and for damn good reason. In addition to being the worst of all the Halloween movies, its opening scene commits an unforgivable one-two punch of awfulness.

First off, it retcons the end of the previous film, Halloween H20, by revealing that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) didn't actually decapitate Michael Myers with an axe - she instead beheaded a poor paramedic who Michael switched clothes with at the last moment.

And then, of course, we're forced to sit through the indignity of Laurie being killed by Michael, which was nothing if not a way to completely lose basically everyone watching.

Ultimately it would've made more sense to just scrap this entire opening - ditch the dumb retcon, keep Laurie out of the film completely, and either treat it as a soft reboot or make it some sort of interquel between some of the other movies.

Given that the double-dumb opening has incredibly little bearing on the rest of the film, if the filmmakers were determined to keep Halloween going, there were surely less-insulting ways to do it. 

Almost anything would've been better than undermining both the previous film and its beloved heroine quite so aggressively.