10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
4. The Editing
Halloween: Resurrection isn't just a bad movie, it's an eye-sore. It's actually painful to watch at times, and not just because of the incredibly fuzzy quality of those Dangertainment cams.
Instead, a large part of the film's ugliness comes from flat-out awful editing. Even simple sequences like Laurie's death are butchered to the point of incoherency. But things only get worse as the film progresses and introduces the element of the Dangertainment cams.
Editor Robert A. Ferretti, known for editing other timeless classics such as Rocky V, seems to be picking shots at random and just inserting them into the edit for most of the runtime. In the midst of sequences of suspense, the film frequently cuts to various other POVs on the Dangertainment cams, deflating any chance of generating tension.
"What just happened?" indeed, Tyra.
The end result is a confusing and muddled final edit that can't even land the most basic of beats with any kind of assuredness or clarity.