10 Movies That Instantly Told You They Were Garbage

Oh, Halloween: Resurrection, you really didn't stand a chance, did you?

Admittedly the previous film, Halloween H20, did such a spectacular job of basically ending the franchise - by having Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) chop Michael Myers' head off with an axe - that it seemed practically impossible for it to continue.

Yet rather than take the eighth film in another direction entirely - like, say, an anthology or a Season of the Witch-esque adjunct - the producers decided to bring Myers back under insultingly convoluted circumstances.

Resurrection's first 15 minutes alone contain two head-smackingly inane reveals which ensured fans lost all hope for the film - if not the entire franchise - early on.

Firstly, we learn that Michael swapped places with a paramedic before he "died," and so Laurie actually decapitated a poor innocent man, whose larynx Michael conveniently crushed to stop him from calling out to Laurie.

And though Laurie returns to lure Michael into a trap at a psychiatric hospital, the prologue ends with Michael killing her. Even worse than that, though, he only gets the upper hand because, after what happened with the paramedic, Laurie decides to check that she is indeed about to kill Michael.

This gives him the opportunity to turn the tables and throw Laurie off the roof to her death.

Everything about this was just wrong, and fans held nothing back in vocally letting the filmmakers know it.

Between the negative reviews and poor box office, it effectively killed the franchise until Rob Zombie rebooted it in 2007, and was wiped out of the original continuity entirely with 2018's sequel to the 1978 original. Phew.