10 Movies That Pissed Off Audiences Right Away

6. Halloween: Resurrection

Halloween: Resurrection's sheer existence had fans sceptical, given that Halloween H20 delivered the best sequel in the series (at that time) and concluded with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) decisively ending Michael Myers for good by decapitating him with a fire axe.

Resurrection had quite the hill to climb in order to justify its existence, then, and that it categorically failed to do while flipping the bird at fans several times during its opening sequence.

For starters, a brain cell-obliteratingly stupid exposition dump reveals that Laurie actually decapitated an innocent paramedic who Michael dressed in his clothes, while crushing his larynx to ensure he couldn't tell Laurie who he really was.

Then we discover that Laurie has been lying in wait for Michael at a sanitarium ever since, and when he inevitably attacks, she catches him in a trap set to finish him off once and for all.

But terrified that she's once again going to kill an innocent, she hesitates to finish the job, allowing Michael to stab and throw her off the roof to her death.

It's about as ill-advised a prologue as any major movie franchise has ever had, treating the audience like morons while offing the series' much-loved protagonist in a mind-bogglingly asinine way.

It's an opening so flagrantly awful it was tough to concentrate on the rest of the movie - which, mercifully, clocks in at just 89 minutes.