10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Poor Jamie Lee Curtis.

If nothing else, rewatching this film makes one exceedingly grateful to David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and everyone at Blumhouse for giving Jamie Lee another go at Laurie Strode because she deserves so much more than this.

Appearing in the first few minutes of the film, Laurie Strode has been institutionalized after the events of H20. When Michael inevitably shows up, she has a face-off with him on the roof and attempts to kill him. This doesn't go as planned and Michael unceremoniously stabs her and throws her off the roof.

Curtis has been exceedingly vocal in the years since Resurrection's release about not being at-all-pleased with the film or her role in it, openly stating that she was practically forced into taking part in the sequence due to contractual obligations buried in the fine print of her H20 contract. And it's pretty obvious to see why. Curtis plays it like a pro, delivering a performance that is light-years ahead of any other performance in this film, but it is painful to watch her reduced to this.

To top it all off, her death has literally no impact on the story. She dies in the opening minutes and the entire sequence has no bearing on the rest of the film, whatsoever. Her death and the way Miramax featured Jamie Lee Curtis's appearance prominently in all of the marketing was nothing more than a cheap ploy to get butts in seats.