10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
7. The Concept Is Outrageously Stupid
In last week's list, I called Halloween H20 'painfully of its era'. Well if H20's carbon-dating was painful, then Resurrection's is excruciating.
The entire plot of the film feels more like parody than reality. A reality show called Dangertainment, run by Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks, sets their Halloween-night episode inside of the actual Myers house and sends a cast of college students in for the night. And somehow, it is even dumber than it sounds.
Pretty obviously, the film is aiming for the teen audiences of 2002 with this gimmick. But instead, it's just the arduous final breath of a dying franchise, trying desperately to cling to some sense of relevancy in the most mind-numbing way possible.
Of all of the Halloween films, Resurrection has aged the worst. No other entry in the franchise has been so brazenly stupid as to make what is essentially just a pop-culture reference a key part of their actual narrative. This film already felt outdated to audiences in 2002 and now, more than a decade removed, it's nothing more than a cringe-inducing time capsule of early 2000s pop culture.