== Alternate Version - Halloween: The Homecoming ==
== Alternate Version - Halloween: The Homecoming ==
The original working title for the film was Halloween 8, this was then changed to Halloween: The Homecoming. [[image:Halloween 8 Alt Title.jpg|thumb|left|Halloween: The Homecoming Title Screen.]]This version of the film included an alternate opening, which showed home movie footage of the Myers family before the events of Halloween 1, several alternate & deleted scenes, some of which included Michael stealing a car from a campsite, Michael arriving in Haddonfield, Tyra Banks' death scene, and an an alternate ending.
The original working title for the film was Halloween 8, this was then changed to Halloween: The Homecoming. [[image:Halloween 8 Alt Title.jpg|thumb|left|Halloween: The Homecoming Title Screen.]]This version of the film included an alternate opening, which showed home movie footage of the Myers family before the events of Halloween 1, several alternate & deleted scenes, some of which included Michael stealing a car from a campsite, Michael arriving in Haddonfield, Tyra Banks' death scene, and an alternate ending.
This version of the film is available over the internet.
This version of the film is available over the internet.
Halloween: Resurrection is a 2002horror film, directed by Rick Rosenthal. It is the eighth film of the Halloweenfranchise. It builds upon the continuity of Halloween: H20 and just like the former, effectively ignores the continuity established during the 4th, 5th, and 6th installments.
Plot
The film begins three years after the events of Halloween: H20. Laurie Strode, the main character of the first two installments as well as H20, has been confined to a mental institution on the counts of murder.
A retcon is established in which Laurie did not really decapitate Michael Myers at the end of the previous film, but rather a paramedic with whom Myers forcefully switched clothing and his mask. Laurie pretends to be heavily medicated, but in reality dodges her pills and prepares herself for the inevitable confrontation with Michael Myers that she knows will come. When Myers does appear, Laurie lures him into a trap, but before she can kill him for good, he turns the tables on her and she presumably dies after being stabbed and falling from the roof of the institution.
File:H8-04.jpgJamie-Lee Curtis & Brad Loree as Michael Myers.
A year later, a group of six college students win a competition to appear on a reality show on which they are to spend Halloween night in the childhood home of Michael Myers. Their mission is to find out what led him to kill. The investigation is done in the style of the MTVreality show, Fear and is broadcast live on the internet. The participants think the show is entirely for entertainment purposes and that the stunt will earn them some publicity and scholarship money. While in the house, the event goes horribly wrong as Michael returns home and one by one, kills the students and the crew involved in the broadcast. Soon, all but one of the college students are murdered. Using her PDA and penpal on the outside, Sara escapes. Ultimately, only Sara Moyer and Freddie Harris, the host of the show, survive. Toward the end Myers dies of electrocution and is taken to a morgue, where a frightened female mortician slowly opens his body bag. He opens his eyes as the screen goes black and the final credits begin to roll.
This version of the film included an alternate opening, which showed home movie footage of the Myers family before the events of Halloween 1, several alternate & deleted scenes, some of which included Michael stealing a car from a campsite, Michael arriving in Haddonfield, Tyra Banks' death scene, and an alternate ending.
This version of the film is available over the internet.
"Halloween Resurrection" was released on July 12th 2002 in the US to extremely poor reviews; which didn't change when it was later released in other countries. Its opening weekend on US screens raked in $12,292,121 and overall the film earned a moderate $30,354,442.
It garnered an 11% on rottentomatoes.com. Lou Lumenick of the New York Post said, “It’s so devoid of joy and energy it makes even ‘Jason X’ look positively Shakespearian by comparison.” Dave Kehr of the New York Times said, “Spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen, not screaming but yawning.” Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine said, “Every sequel you skip will be two hours gained. Consider this review life-affirming.” Joe Leydon of Variety said, “[Seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels.” Glenn Lovell of the San Jose Mercury News was slightly more positive: “No, it’s not as single-minded as John Carpenter’s original, but it’s sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels.”
Production notes
This particular chapter was mostly shot on a set that is designed to imitate the house from the original film as closely as possible. This is unlike the prior films, which have altered the Myers house's design on two occasions. File:H8-05.jpgDeleted Scene: Michael Myers approaches Nora.
The film has a number of three alternate endings, that all end in more or less the same fashion - Michael returning in some fashion. First ending is where Dekerd comes to save Sara, second ending where a female FBI aganit invesagate Michael's body only to find the tunnel than Michael apears and grabbed her name coller, and the third ending where Michael's burned mask is shown under the bag than awoken to start chocking Freddy until Sara held an ax and stabs Michael in the face and finally dies.
This film marks references to Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is where we are shown an underground tunnel underneath the Myers house that happens to be the exact same tunnel that was seen in Halloween 6, meaning that H20 and Resurrection may have some connection to four, five and six after all. Another reference is when Michael attacked the people in his house. Tommy Doyle said in H6 that anybody in his house is his "family".
Trivia
Jamie Lee Curtis was only contractually obliged to film a five minute cameo, but as she liked the script so much she extended the role.
Halloween 8 was originally planned to be a Michael Myers-less film, like Halloween III, but due to complaints and protests from online fans this was changed.
Some of the deleted & extended scenes that were cut from the film are not included on any of the DVD releases. Bootleg copies are available with these scenes reinserted. Most notably is Tyra Bank's death scene.
Director Rick Rosenthal originally wanted to use all three alternate endings, putting a different ending in each movie theatre. The audience would not know which ending they were about to see. This idea was eventually scrapped.
Halloween 8 was reportedly planned before the release of Halloween: H20.
Josh Hartnett refused to return for any future Halloween movies.
There might be one more sequel added to the series even though Rob Zombie's Halloween has already been finished.
