8 Movie Sequels That Ruined A Perfect Franchise Ending

The Halloween franchise can practically go toe-to-toe with the Friday the 13th franchise at this point based off of how many faux final installments they've had. With its several different iterations of sequels, remakes, and reboots, each iteration eager to ignore what has come immediately before in favor of *attempting* to return to something closer to Carpenter's original film, things have gotten a bit complicated for the franchise.

But no narrative rewrite has been quite as groan-worthy as that of Halloween: Resurrection's.

Halloween: H20 saw Jamie Lee Curtis returning to the role of Laurie Strode for the first time in nearly twenty years and while the film may have been a bit of a mixed bag overall, it delivered one hell of an ending, with Laurie finally ridding herself of Michael Myers by chopping his head clean off with an ax. It was a ludicrously satisfying finale and one that the immediate sequel, Halloween: Resurrection had to find a way around.

Unfortunately, they did so in the dumbest way possible.

The opening of Halloween: Resurrection retcons the whole thing, revealing that Michael had actually switched outfits with an injured paramedic, meaning that Michael escaped and Laurie had beheaded an innocent man. Then, just to rub salt in the wound, the film kills of Laurie Strode in the limpest way imaginable within the first ten minutes.

Bravo, Halloween: Resurrection. You're still the red-headed stepchild of this franchise and you always will be.