{"id":1697120,"date":"2022-10-15T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697120"},"modified":"2022-10-16T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T23:20:16","slug":"halloween-resurrection-marked-tragic-low-for-beloved-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/halloween-resurrection-marked-tragic-low-for-beloved-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Halloween: Resurrection&#8221; Marked Tragic Low for Beloved Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhalloween-resurrection-marked-tragic-low-for-beloved-franchise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><strong>Rick Rosenthal\u2019s \u201cHalloween: Resurrection\u201d (2002) has no opening credits that harken back to the jack-o-lantern themed introductions of the prior films.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We just get orange letters but no proper opening, an indication from the get-go that something is off.<\/p>\n<p>An introduction with two chatty hospital nurses douses the viewer in exposition and quickly erases one of the best shocks of the previous \u201cHalloween H20: Twenty Years Later\u201d (1998), which definitively concluded the entire series.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, explains a nurse, who hits us with \u201cOh my God, she killed the wrong guy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Jamie Lee Curtis\u2019 Laurie Strode didn\u2019t actually terminate Michael Myers. More of this last-scene-of-\u201cScooby-Doo\u201d-like dialog insists that Strode killed the wrong guy in a Myers-planted swithcheroo, because the wrong guy\u2019s \u201clarynx had been crushed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okay, but then why did the guy act like Myers? If it was the wrong guy, then the unintended victim was awfully convincing doing everything you never want to do in order to stop someone from killing you.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, what a croc.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses simply should have said, \u201cMichael Myers is still alive\u2026because \u2018Halloween H20\u2019 made $55 million.\u201d No further explanation needed.<\/p>\n<p>We also learn that Strode is in this very hospital, which also houses a chatty inmate who is quick with lists of real serial killers. Thank goodness for all these talkative, exposition-filled side characters!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch-review\/\"><strong>RELATED: \u2018HALLOWEEN III\u2019 TOOK THE FRANCHISE\u2019S BIGGEST RISKS\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strode\u2019s POV of picking up a knife is a nice nod to the opening of the original film. Curtis\u2019 participation was what made me see this opening weekend in theaters (with a rowdy audience that was all-too-happy to yell out their favorite lines from \u201cScary Movie\u201d during certain moments).<\/p>\n<p>The big confrontation between Strode and Myers is oddly front-loaded, the top of the first act, pre-credit stinger, like how a James Bond movie opens. It\u2019s the film\u2019s best scene, though \u201cbest\u201d is a word I\u2019d use loosely, since what transpires is hard to get worked up over.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Strode set a trap for Myers and the device in question wouldn\u2019t be out of place in a \u201cHome Alone\u201d sequel.\u201d I won\u2019t give away what happens, but it\u2019s not great.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Strode kisses Myers before she falls out of frame (and the movie) why?! Myers then gives the deranged inmate his knife like a gift at a family gathering (another big Why Did That Just Happen?).<\/p>\n<p>After the prologue, which was enough to lure me and most of the fans who thought they had said goodbye to this franchise back in \u201998, \u201cHalloween: Resurrection\u201d becomes a new movie.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re now in a peppy, very-MTV Total Request Live feeling movie, in which a group of young people are being recruited to take part in a new Reality TV concoction deemed \u201cDangertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gist is that the group of young adults (which includes Katee Sackhoff in her second film role, Thomas Ian Nicholas of \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d and Sean Patrick Thomas of \u201cSave the Last Dance\u201d) have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Rosenthal\u2019s \u201cHalloween: Resurrection\u201d (2002) has no opening credits that harken back to the jack-o-lantern themed introductions of the prior films. We just get orange letters but no proper opening, an indication from the get-go that something is off. 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