Halloween: Resurrection - Busta Rhymes is the Final Girl
Welcome one, welcome all, to Horror Bound Resurrected! I am your host…in text format…PaZoZo and we’re going deep…like balls deep…into this one. In celebration of Resurrection Week here at Horror Bound, I decided to go into some remakes or reboots or something to do with resurrection and review them for our spooky little corner of the Internet. For today’s watch…I chose an obvious title. For the approval of the Horror Bound team and the spooky family that read our creepy site…I submit to thee…
Halloween: Resurrection
So, for this format my reviews are going to be a little different. That means there may be spoilers and I may go off on a rant or something, meant more for fun than a serious review. I may even decide to kind of do a play-by-play of my reaction to everything. Anyway, let’s get started.
Halloween: Resurrection was directed by Rick Rosenthal and stars a bunch of dumb idiots who go into Michael’s house to film a web series called DangerTainment (lol what a dumb name…) that is meant to explore the real reasons and mystery behind why Michael did what he did. I mean, as viewers we already know…Mikey picked up a knife and never put it down…MAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! Spooky shit, right? Anyway…
So, we’re introduced to our cast of victi-I mean, heroes, and right off the bat, they’re really paper thin in terms of character development. Not a single one of these people are likable except for Freddie Harris (Busta F*CKING Rhymes!!!!) who is the one behind the entire DangerTainment production. In fact, he’s so likable and awesome in this movie, he very well should have been given the lead role as “final girl” because let me tell you this, Sara (played by Bianca Kajlich) is friggin’ terrible. She can’t scream, she can’t deliver her lines properly, and she’s boring. But hey, that doesn’t mean this movie overall is terrible. There’s plenty to love about how cheesy some of this dialogue is that will keep you entertained throughout.
I had some issues, however, with the cinematography. Because this movie is supposed to be filmed like we’re watching a first-person POV reality show, the camera keeps switching between regular third-person views, which look pretty good, to these crappy first-person cameras that really don’t work all that well. Not sure if that was done on purpose to be creepy, or if it was done because they had a constrained budget. The music is something that I was really in love with, Carpenter’s original score explodes into your eardrums, giving you shivers every time it comes on.
There was something fun, overall, about this movie. It’s definitely not the greatest of films in the Halloween franchise, but also not the worst. It’s got some great moments that you and your friends will find appealing. What wasn’t appealing…the lack of gore and blood. The Halloween franchise, to me, has always felt a little subdued. You’ve got Kreuger climbing out of a kid’s body, you’ve got Jason basically tearing people in half, but Mikey has always been a one cut man…just stabby, no blood, kinda guy. I think it’s due to the fact he’s more of a suspense slasher, but really after part 1 has there been any suspense in the franchise? Well duh…the 2018 reboot did. Anyway, this movie is a paper-thin slasher. Stupid kids doing something stupid and having to be saved by a popular rapper who uses Kung Fu. That alone is the reason you should check this out!
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