Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Eventually, everybody comes home – and HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION is a chance for the legend of Michael Myers to finally return to its birthplace: the ordinary Midwestern house that turned into a cornerstone of evil when he first revealed his unending obsession with terror. Myers’ kind of evil never dies, and now the secret of his resurrection is revealed in this all new episode.

HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION is also a chance to send the legacy of Michael Myers hurtling into the new millennium. Myers is reawakened into a world where he has become more than just the harrowing face of evil – a world where he and his many murders over the years have become the subject of internet chats, home-made videos and "reality" entertainment. For the first time, his evildoings are being captured "live" on camera for a stunned audience.

It was this combination of returning to the classic "Halloween" story-line and kick-starting a whole new chapter in the cyberspace era that drew director Rick Rosenthal, who first met up with Michael Myers in "Halloween 2," to RESURRECTION. Much has changed in two decades, and Rosenthal was excited to bring the new technology of the world – and filmmaking – to the fore in the very first "Halloween" episode of the new millennium.

No stranger to innovation, Rosenthal’s look for "Halloween 2" – an expressionistic world of darkness, shadows, lurking spaces and a constantly moving camera – set the tone for many horror films that followed. But now, with RESURRECTION, Rosenthal wanted to forge a new sensibility. He did so by having each character in HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION carry a mini-digital camera strapped to their heads – allowing each actor to bring back their own shockingly personal and immediate images of fear and mayhem from Michael Myers’ house.

He continues: "The idea of having each character wear his own camera was a very exciting one and adds a real 21st century, dynamic sensibility to the story. There’s a feeling that it’s all happening in real-time and in real life. To my knowledge, nobody’s ever done this before, so that’s pretty exciting. It also creates a tremendous amount of suspense and tension because you can see what’s going on in different parts of the house from different points of view – and you know who’s in danger sometimes before they do. Best of all, it lets the audience get to know the characters even better. I think HALLOWEEN transcended the slasher formula because it’s always been about the characters and in RESURRECTION, the audience gets a chance to follow extremely likable characters almost from inside their heads."

Because the lenses on the headsets are only seven millimeters, the shots from the cast are very wide angle, lending those sequences an eerie, twisted visual quality that Rosenthal calls "very Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."

It’s not only Michael Myers making a return trip in HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION. It’s also his most tenacious nemesis: his sister Laurie Strode, whom he terrorized in the original episodes of "Halloween" and again in "Halloween H20," always played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

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