Halloween: Resurrection - 2002

 Here's my pitch:  Halloween is going to be rebooted or legacy sequeled or given a TV series or something again; its just inevitable.  So, unite the plots and make Halloween the longest running series with a single killer. 

Oddly enough, the longest series (by my count) is probably Hellraiser (I did count others but now I'm forgetting).  Here are my criteria:  must be the same killer (excludes Jigsaw, excludes Friday the 13th part 1 and 5 where it's not Jason, etc), must be a continual storyline (thus, the longest running Halloween storyline is 6 movies from 1 to 6 with the thorn cult, before they reworked it in H20). Excludes reboots (Rob Zombie stuff et all).  Pinhead is supposed to the same even in the soft reboot (different actors are fine) so that brings Hellraiser to 11 movies, though arguably he does not kill many people in some (this is not a body count list).

I'm rewatching H20 and Resurrection to see exactly where this series left off in the "Dimension" storyline which is canonically including Halloween 1 and 2, H20, and Resurrection.  So my pitch is:  Laurie Strode had her first kid shortly after Halloween 2, played by Danielle Harris in Halloween 4.  She abandoned that child and ran away and had another played by Josh Hartnett and a third who presumably was raised partially by her father, played by Judy Greer in Kills and Ends.  

While Laurie is off raising Josh Hartnett and Judy Greer, Jamie is stalked by Myers in H4 and killed in part 6.  Meanwhile, Strode has H20 and Resurrection happen, fakes her death in Resurrection and runs off to find her last remaking child, Judy Greer, where she lives in the woods and then Kills and Ends happens.  Its not that hard, plus then the sequel I have in mind is Halloween 7, meaning after 6 The Curse of Michael Myers, and we see the end of the Thorn Cult.

Halloween Resurrection is bad.  Curtis signed on if they agreed to kill her off and not leave it open for a sequel.  They kill her off in the cold open and then its a "haunted house" story where for some reason a reality TV group has a bunch of airhead teens staying in Myers childhood home, having sex and doing drugs.  Myers comes home and begins to kill them, while Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes are our new main characters I guess in the house.

Kills are okay, mask is bad.  Its again one of those movies where I ask, non ironically, is this even supposed to be scary?  Its not scary.  I give it a 1.5.