Halloween: Resurrection

"Evil finds its way home."

Director: Rick Rosenthal Year: 2002 Runtime: 94 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.6
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Synopsis

Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Myers. Their planned live broadcast turns deadly when Michael decides to crash the party.

Three years after the murders at Hillcrest Academy, a guilt-ridden Laurie Strode is institutionalized in Grace Andersen Sanitarium. It is revealed that the person she previously decapitated, whom she believed to be Michael Myers, was in fact a paramedic that Michael had switched clothes with and rendered mute. Anticipating her brother's inevitable return, Laurie sets a trap on the sanitarium's roof. Michael kills two security guards and chases Laurie to the rooftop, where her trap works and temporarily incapacitates Michael. However, Laurie's fears of killing the wrong person again get the better of her. When she attempts to remove his mask to confirm his identity, Michael stabs and throws her off the rooftop to her death. A year later, college students Sara Moyer, Bill Woodlake, Donna Chang, Jen Danzig, Jim Morgan and Rudy Grimes win a competition to appear on an Internet reality show called Dangertainment, directed by Freddie Harris and Nora Winston. The students have to spend a night in Michael's abandoned childhood house in order to figure out what led him to kill. However, while setting up cameras throughout the house in preparation for the show, cameraman Charlie is killed by Michael, who has returned to Haddonfield. On Halloween night, equipped with head cameras, Sara, Bill, Donna, Jen, Jim, and Rudy enter the house and separate into three groups to search for clues. While Sara messages the others, Myles "Deckard" Barton watches the live broadcast during a party. During the search, Michael suddenly appears and kills Bill. Donna and Jim discover a wall filled with fake corpses and realize that the show is a setup, before the former is killed by Michael. At the party, Deckard and other partygoers witness the murder; only Deckard realizes that it was real. Meanwhile, Freddie enters the house dressed as Michael in order to scare the competitors. He is followed by the real Michael, whom he mistakes for Charlie and shoos out of the house towards the garage where Nora is. When Rudy, Sara, and Jim find Freddie in the Michael costume, he reveals the scheme to them and begs them to cooperate, telling them that they will all be paid well if the show works out. After Freddie leaves, the trio decides to gather up the rest and leave. Jen discovers Bill's corpse, and Michael decapitates her in front of Rudy, Sara, and Jim, who soon realize that it isn't Freddie. Michael proceeds to kill Jim and Rudy before chasing Sara upstairs. Locking herself in a bedroom, Sara begs Deckard to help her. As the other partygoers realize that all the murders are real, Deckard begins to message Michael's locations to Sara to help her avoid him. Sara runs into Freddie just as Michael finds them and stabs the latter. Sara runs into the tunnels and finds an exit leading to the garage, where she discovers Nora's body[nb 1]. Michael again arrives and attacks Sara, but a still-living Freddie finds them and fights Michael as an electrical fire starts in the garage. After electrocuting Michael, Freddie carries Sara to safety, leaving Michael to die in the burning garage. Later, Freddie and Sara are interviewed by the local news, during which Sara thanks Deckard for saving her life and Freddie assaults the reporter. Meanwhile, Michael is presumed dead and his body is taken to the morgue. However, as the coroner prepares to examine his body, Michael suddenly awakens. In an alternate ending, Sara requests to look at the bodybag seemingly containing Michael's corpse. Upon opening, Michael awakens and chokes Freddie until Sara kills Michael by stabbing him in the face with an axe.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler No, but there is some behaviour akin to sexual harassment.
animals are abused
spoiler A rat seems to have been partially eaten (by a human), or at least seriously wounded, but left alive.
an animal dies
spoiler An animal isn't killed on screen, but dead rats are shown - one of which is half alive and makes screeching noises when a character touches it.
there's a dead animal
Yes
there are spiders
Yes
an animal is sad
Yes
there are bugs
Yes
a pet dies
spoiler Very obvious scene of a rat’s death as well as other rat’s bodies.
there's child abuse
Yes
there's domestic violence
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
the abused becomes the abuser
Yes
someone is stalked
Yes
someone uses drugs
spoiler Marijuana is used.
someone is restrained
spoiler Michael’s foot is caught in a snare and he is hanged upside down over a ledge. He struggles to escape but can’t.
there's body horror
Yes
heads get squashed
spoiler Not to the point of completely caving in, but squeezed from the sides to the point of death (blood coming out of the eyes).
there's decapitation
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
someone is crushed to death
spoiler Michael crushes someone’s head with his hands.
there's amputation
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
someone breaks a bone
Yes
somebody is choked
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
there are hangings
spoiler Yes, but the person doesn't die.
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
Yes
there's excessive gore
spoiler Head chopped off, lots of stabbing, the usual halloween type kills really
someone falls to their death
spoiler Someone is stabbed first but still alive when falling.
someone is burned alive
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone falls down stairs
spoiler No, however someone’s severed head does.
a minor is sexualized
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler The characters in the house are all college age.
someone dies
Yes
someone overdoses
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
spoiler Shows a Rag Doll with nails in its eyes.
a family member dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are mannequins
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler Someone is dressed up in a clown costume
There's audio gore
spoiler Visual and Audio Gore
there's a mental institution scene
Yes
electro-therapy is used
spoiler No, but there is prolonged electric shock.
there's a hospital scene
spoiler Start of film
Someone attempts suicide
Yes
autism is misrepresented
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler At least in the sense that people are trapped in a house with a psycho killer, trying to hide. I can't remember if we see people in small confined spaces.
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there's blackface
spoiler Not quite but one white teen goes as samual Jackson’s character from pulp fiction for Halloween.
there's a large age gap
Yes
there are incestuous relationships
spoiler Yes, she kisses him (once, not prolonged), but there's nothing sexual or romantic about it. It's by no means a relationship.
there is sexual content
Yes
there are nude scenes
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
the ending is sad
spoiler Well, several people have died.
there's gun violence
Yes
there's blood/gore
spoiler Lots

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