10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

In the interest of keeping Michael Myers alive in the narrative, the creative team behind Halloween: Resurrection faced the difficult task of explaining how Michae could still be alive after being decapitated in H20. And somehow, they settled on the absolute worst solution imaginable.

According to Resurrection, Michael switched outfits with a paramedic before H20's finale, letting Michael escape and leaving Laurie to decapitate the wrong man. In theory, this is dumb but nothing too far removed from some of the lower points of previous films. Heck, it's practically a rip-off of the ending of the Halloween 6 Producer's Cut.

But in execution, this is horrendous. All of this is communicated to the audience through one big exposition dump by some nurse characters the audience never sees again right at the start of the film. To accompany it, we get flashbacks that hilariously have Michael still carrying his knife around even after he's supposedly 'in disguise'.

It's an absolutely laughable sequence that gets the film off to a wonky start. Not only does it undermine everything that made H20's ending so thrilling, but it's also just written and shot in about the worst way imaginable. It's the worst kind of retcon in that it raises way more questions than it answers and seems to have been tossed in without so much as a second thought.

It's as if one of the writers' lost a bet and had to write the most ridiculous reason they could think of for Michael to be back, and it somehow made it into the finished film.