Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Unfortunately, the same success did not befall H20‘s sequel, which was clearly just a cash-grab laden down by some weird story decisions.
For starters, it’s revealed that the man Laurie decapitated in the last movie was in fact some poor paramedic Michael had dressed up to look like him. Guilt-ridden over what she did, Laurie’s now locked up in a sanitarium herself – leaving her easy prey for Michael (Brad Doree). Yup, after an epic quest that’s spread across eight movies, Michael finally manages to kill his sister… within about fifteen minutes of Resurrection.
Not that this means Michael can kick back and put his feet up. He proceeds to return to his childhood home where a group of teens are staying for a new webseries. Needless to say, Michael doesn’t take kindly to this and ends up murdering the lot of them.
Though Bianca Kajlich’s Sara Moyer is set up as the new Final Girl for Michael to hunt down, Resurrection‘s extremely negative reception crushed any hopes for a sequel. The only thing to do, it seemed, was to hit the rest button…