10 More Films Hollywood Needs To Apologize For

8. Halloween: Resurrection

Terminator Genisys Arnold Schwarzenegger
Dimension Films

The early 2000s were the era of tacky reality television, so it must’ve made sense to the creatively bankrupt producers of this seventh sequel to incorporate it into the plot. The result is one of the dumbest, most unintentionally funny horror films you’ve ever seen.

After explaining how Michael Myers survived being decapitated at the end of Halloween H20 (“Ohmigod, she killed the wrong person!”) and doing away with the only other continuing character (RIP, Laurie), the movie sends Michael back to his childhood home, which is full of reality TV contestants getting high and sneaking off to have sex. Over the next eighty-nine minutes, prepare to see a once-proud horror icon being outsmarted by text-messaging teens, mocked for being mute and fought off by a kung fu fighting rapper.

You’ll hear Donald Pleasance turn over in his grave when Busta Rhymes, whose real name is Trevor Smith, kicks down a door with the zinger, “Trick or treat, Motherf**ker!” But before that he gets to fight Michael with mixed martial arts and before that he becomes the first person to tell Myers to “scoot, skedaddle, get the f**k outta Dodge” and walk away.

Please come back, John Carpenter.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'