Moral Assessment + Abhorrent + + Disturbing + + + Acceptable + + + + Wholesome + + + + + Exemplary Technical Assessment • Poor • • Below average • • • Average • • • • Above average • • • • • Excellent CINEMA Rating Guide VA For viewers of all ages V13 For viewers age 13 and below with parental guidance V14 For viewers 14 and above V18 For mature viewers 18 and above NP Not for public viewing

Title: HALLOWEEN - RESURRECTION Running Time:  87 min Lead Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Tyra Banks, Katee Sackhoff, Ryan Merriman, Sean Patrick Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas Director:  Rick Rosenthal Producers: Moustapha Akkhad Screenwriters: Debra Hill, John Carpenter Music: Marco Beltrami, John Carpenter Editor:  Robert A. Ferretti Genre: Horror/Thriller Cinematography:  David Geddes Distributor: Miramax / Sky Films Location:  Haddonfield, Illinois, USA Technical Assessment:  • • Moral Assessment:  + + CINEMA Rating:   For mature viewers 18 and above   A group of college students get selected to participate in a contest: to spend a whole night in the abandoned house of a mass murderer—Michael Myers (Brad Loree)—on the eve of Halloween.  To record what happens individually and the group's experiences, to monitor their whereabouts at all times, and to beam this to audiences outside, appropriate electronic gadgets and equipment are installed in the premises, or strapped to their heads.  What follows is a montage of sightings of Michael Myers, with an apparent double, and the brutality that takes place. The question is: Is Michael Myers still alive and the killing a continuation of his previous mass murders? Or is he a figment of the participants' imagination.  Or, is this whole project a set-up, and by who? The movie audience and the webnet viewers get to see the whole picture of what is happening to the contestants.  It is mayhem in the house.  Because of the more shadowy than lighted surroundings the participants frighten each other by sudden encounters and screams fill the air. Dialogue is garbled. The more eerie and fearful-suspenseful element is the appearance of the masked figure of Myers, resurrected, stalking each one of them. Because of the number of actors and all unknown, except for Jamie Lee Curtis and Tyra Banks playing cameo roles, the characters are hard to identify.  Because they are undeveloped, there is no acting required of them. The extensive use of electronic appliances show how people can be reached and connected to each other more than ever before. This is how a participant escapes from the carnage. It also reveals the possibility that webnet viewers could be confused or mistaken as to whether what they see is real or a set-up.  The audience will not find anything positive to pick up from the story, except to what lengths one would take to save oneself; and also the danger of taking part in something unusual or dubious, even for an attractive prize.  The series of beheadings, stabbings, slashing, sights of cut-up and disemboweled bodies, though projected in quick scenes, are too many for comfort.   (Date reviewed: October 25, 2002)