In 1978 John Carpenter made a low budget chiller named Halloween. It went on to become the most successful independent film for many years to come. It launched the careers of Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis and also brought a new figure to the world of horror icons-the brooding and haunting Michael Myers. Naturally any horror movie that makes a good profit gets a sequel and then a possible franchise. Five more Halloween films followed, each of them never coming close to the original, however they still had some enjoyment in them.

Sadly four years later the cash cow was once again resurrected when Michael Myer’s returned for an eighth time. Yes I know, you thought he was killed once and for all by Laurie at the end of H20. Well it turns out that the decapitation of Myer’s wasn’t true. He has swapped bodies at the end of the last movie and Laurie has killed an innocent man. This sends her to a mental institution where she waits day after day for Michael to return. Needless to say, he does and he comes face to face with Laurie which ends with the death of his sister and needless to say Jamie Lee Curtis has held up her obvious contractual obligation. The movie then moves into a story where an entertainment company stages a reality webcast where some young people scour the old Myer’s house for anything creepy. Needless to say they didn’t count on Michael Myer’s showing up with his large knife and turning an innocent stunt into a
bloodbath.

Of course you also have a group of characters that are completely annoying that you can’t wait for them to be dispatched. They are given banal dialogue to spout and also do things which make no sense, one of the females is completely turned off by her male counterpart’s advances but then moments later she’s all over him just so the film can have a ‘naked breast’ moment. This film also has shows some amazing technology as this webcast seems to offer perfect video quality to anybody who views it on their computer. Needless to say this isn’t true to life. The only person who comes off well in this film is Busta Rhymes, purely because he seems to think he’s in a comedy. There is a moment when the emotionless killer that is Myer’s confronts Rhyme’s. Normally Rhyme’s would be sliced and diced but instead he berates Myer’s as he think’s he’s somewhere else. He ends by telling Myer’s to go do some work, Myer’s actually does what he’s told! Then in the finale they have a fight where Rhyme’s uses some lame kung-fu. By this point I couldn’t believe that this movie actually got past the script stage. Of course at the end there is a hint at another Halloween movie to come. This is surely proof that there is no god.