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Luigi Scaramuzzi
•A group of young people win a strange and macabre television contest that involves spending a night in the childhood home of the famous serial killer Michael Myers, all filmed by 24-hour cameras, in an Internet reality show. Of course, the opportunity seen by the young people is incredible, the chance to become famous makes them enormously happy, but things will not go as planned. Eighth chapter of a famous saga present in horror cinema for more than twenty years, "Halloween – Resurrection" is the last chapter signed by Rick Rosenthal, director who twenty years earlier had directed the second chapter of the saga "Halloween II – The Lord of Death" (1981). The first chapter of the saga was born in 1978 by the hand of the greatest and most brilliant director that horror cinema had at that moment, John Carpenter ("1997: Escape from New York"; "The Thing"); the story tells of a six-year-old child, named Michael Myers, who in 1963 was locked up in a psychiatric center for brutally murdering his older sister on Halloween night. 15 years later Michael will escape to return to his hometown to complete his desire for violence... and he will do it for all eight chapters that have been made so far, ending precisely with the film in question. Since seven films have already been made, the director therefore had to try to refresh the saga and, since the year of production is 2002 (but released in theaters in 2003), the "novelty" factor thought was one or better a very popular mix in these years: Reality Show and Internet. There is really very little to say about this film, because the tone, the identity card have been overturned, and the director succeeded only in the unique intention of ruining the myth of Michael Myers, shooting a banal teen movie that even features Tyra Banks. Zero tension, fear... "What???!"; worse rhythm than a slow dance at a wedding finale. "Halloween – Resurrection" presents itself as the worst film in the saga; for this reason, it is appropriate to give advice to those young people who are not even aware of this saga: avoid "Halloween – Resurrection"! Rather, it is recommended to recover at least the first three chapters and perhaps wait for the remake signed by Rob Zombie that will soon debut in cinema.
