10 Worst Horror Movie One-Liners

Apparently, by the time the Halloween franchise got to its eighth installment, the studio decided that this slasher series needed to have its rhymes busted. That’s right, they elected to stunt-cast popular rapper Busta Rhymes, who agreed to do the film under certain conditions.

He included various demands in his contract, one of which was that he could write most of his own lines. He also insisted that a karate subplot would be incorporated for his character, Freddie Harris. And so all of this resulted in...well, Halloween: Resurrection.

The film endeavored to cash in on the popularity of reality shows and the rising trend of internet-based content at that time. It also made a hamfisted attempt to satirise the culture of prank shows and reality-based entertainment by making the central characters psychology students who try to evaluate Michael Myers’s psyche through cringy attempts at intellectual dialogue.

During the final confrontation of the movie, Rhymes’s character Freddie reemerges and electrocutes Michael before leaving him to die in a fire, but not before squeezing out one more of his (at this point) trademark quips: “Looking a little crispy over there, Mikey. Like some chicken-fried motherfucker. Well, may he never...ever rest in peace.”

The line is a cheesy, clumsily structured piece of dialogue, that we can only assume was meant to come across as badass or witty, but instead came across, like a lot of things in this movie, as incredibly out of place and unnecessary.

Imagine showing this scene to somebody who has only seen the original Halloween from 1978, in which Busta Rhymes calls Michael Myers, once a symbol of terror to a whole generation, a “chicken-fried motherfucker.”