Plot Oversights

When the two security guys notice Michael in the basement (on camera) why don't they notice that he is a lot thinner than Harold.

What are these people thinking? If your trapped in the house with a known serial killer, why not break out a window and get the hell out of there???

The nurse mentions that Laurie Strode is a potential suicide risk. With that risk, added to her mentioned escape attempts and being found on a rooftop, as well as being the prime target of a serial killer still on the loose, shouldn't she be under 24 hour protective watch?

Man those college kids in Haddonfield can really afford expensive computers.  The computer that Myles uses and its view screen must cost a fortune.

When Charlie is killed with the tripod his throat looks like it is penetrated completely. Yet when Michael drags him across the floor it leaves no blood trail. In fact their is no blood trail anywhere.

Apparently there is a back door to Michaels dungeon that we don't know about.  After Michael encounters Freddy dressed as Michael Myers, Donna ventures into Michaels secret room.  Freddy sends Michael outside but somehow Michael ends up in his secret room to kill Donna.  How did he do it?

What is Laurie thinking.  Michael has been shot, stabbed numerous times, even burned alive and all of this was witnessed or done by Laurie herself.  So why does she think that a head first fall from a few stories up will end the life of Michael Myers.  She had it right in H20 just behead him that might be the only way to kill him.

This is a timing mistake. In the beginning of the movie, when Michael kills the first security guard, he stuffs his head in the washer. The second security guard was in the room within 30 seconds. There is no way that Michael had time to cut this guys head off, stuff it in the washing machine, turn it on, and hide before the second guard got there

After Michael is burnt in HALLOWEEN II, his hands don't contain scars anymore once H8 comes around. Well he did have twenty years in order to have plastic surgery.  Well I guess his third degree burns had a lot of time to heal!!!!!

If Michael was a chained prisoner in the dungeon of his own home then what the hell was he doing trick or treating on Halloween?? Did they only put Mike in chains when he went into his rages?

If Michael Myers has to kill his family members to rid himself of the curse, why is he spending his time "cleaning house?" He should be going after John.  I guess he is like the South in the Civil War, he is just defending his home.

When it flashes back to how Michael Myers survived the end of H20, we see the paramedic that he subdues and switches places with. That paramedic had a bit of a stomach on him, yet the figure of Michael Myers throughout the rest of H20 after the switch remains the same as the real Myers. [A side note: Halloween H20 WAS intended to be the absolute final film, but popular demand forced a return and obviously they needed a scapegoat excuse to bring Myers back. Still...]

An addition to the nitpick above, the paramedic is noticeably shorter than Michael so again how did this switch work??

Freddie was stabbed three times in the shoulder/upper back by Michael and left for dead. Yet, 5 minutes later, he arrives at the storage room able to swing a shovel perfectly and fight Michael again. (Three endings were shot, and the other two didn't have Freddie survive the stabbings) Guess they changed their minds or they really wanted to hear Busta say "Trick or Treat Mother Fu@@er!!!"

Michael breaks through a wall and crashes a mirror to kill a Bill.  Bill screams for his life; however, no one else in the otherwise quiet house hears him. Guess the walls of the Myers house are sound proof.

When the police learned that the Michael Myers beheaded in H20 was actually a paramedic, why didn't they put out an APB (All-Points Bulletin) to begin a manhunt for his capture? A serial killer of his stature on the loose would garner a massive investigation as well as a wide-spread search, possibly involving FBI and SWAT members.  They hunt down Ted Bundy and other serial killers why not Michael Myers??????? 

The bandages for Freddie's stab wounds are on top of his shirt. If he were really stabbed severely three times on the shoulder, the paramedics would have at least make him take off his shirt to better dress the wound.   Plus he was stabbed shouldn't they take him to the hospital.  Maybe after the terror of Halloween II there are no more hospitals in America.

The basement wall that collapses and spills out fake body parts were put there by Freddie and his crew, but that wall opens into Michael's bedroom. Wouldn't the crew have seen Michael's room?

Beheading Michael Myers (or at least thinking you did) in H20 was the best move, as the curse becomes useless if Michael has no head. Using this knowledge, why didn't Sara make an attempt to sever his head with the chainsaw? She wielded it pretty good when she jumped out at him, yet only made small gashes to try to hurt him.

To make his escape, Michael Myers traded outfits with a paramedic (as we not only see Michael walking away in a medic uniform, we see the paramedic donning the infamous blue jumpsuit throughout H20's ending). Yet, in the beginning of Resurrection, Michael shows up back in his trademark blue jumpsuit. Personal tailor?

When Michael Myers is holding the tripod to impale the crewman, the length of the sharpened end changes in length and shape numerous times. First, it's wider and smaller. Then it's slightly longer and narrower. And when it's finally through the victim, it's long enough to go through the neck and into the adjacent wall.

Why would Charlie let Michael stab him with the tripod. He was in an open area so why didn't he run. Plus Charlie even held the leg while he was stabbed!  Guess he saw a mask and it scared him.

When Michael is walking towards Laurie's room in the sanitarium, the window on the door is yellow as if a light is on in the room. Then in the next shot it is blue as if a light was not on.

Near the end of the film, Deckard is communicating to Sara's handheld device where Michael Myers is in the house. When Deckard tells Sara to "GO NOW!", the text has changed from small digital text to large bold font and the screen has changed from green to white, similar to a large PC monitor.

Bill was killed in Judith Myers' bedroom, but his body was discovered on the stepladder leading to the attic. Wouldn't there be a noticeable trail of blood leading from the bedroom to the attic?

Freddie has all the cameras cut when they find out he's a fake Michael Myers. When the kids complain to Deckard about it suddenly going offline, they tell him to bring it back. Deckard types at a fast rate, yet not only is there no dialogue box for text to be typed in, the screen remains the same.

After Michael kills Laurie, he hands the knife to the patient with the clown mask. In the hospital with a bunch of crazy people, wouldn't the doors be locked? Yet Michael just walks right in.

When Michael kills the cameraman with the tripod pole, a view is shown as if recorded by that camera. If the tripod was in a horizontal position, the camera would be facing the ceiling, floor, or walls, but not the victims.

Continuity and Other Production Errors

We see countless times that there is a wooded area behind the Myers home (especially after the house burns down, it is seen more clearly). But in the other films, the Myers home is in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Behind his house would be the back of another house.

When Michael first gets his head cut off by Laurie the eyes of the severed head are clearly wide open. (in H20 and in flashback scene) Then when they remove the mask from the head, not only is the mask suddenly and noticeably different, but the eyes are now closed.

After Michael kills Laurie at the beginning. He hands the knife to the inmate with the clown mask. The next kill is the camera man in which he uses the tripod ends to kill him with. A few scenes later they show Michael standing holding a knife with fresh blood on it. He hasn't killed anybody with this knife yet so where did the blood come from?

In one of the last scenes where Sara Moyer has a blanket around her shoulders. She has her palm pilot in her hand and she has just received a message from Berman saying that he can see her on the news. The very next second after reading that entry you can here the palm pilot shut so you know she a has closed it. Then the very next shot you can actually see her shut the palm pilot.

Freddie is stabbed rather harshly on the shoulder but there is no blood anywhere on his shirt or anywhere near his wound

Jen has very thick black roots. She is decapitated. When Michael throws her head down the stairs, she is perfectly blonde, no roots.

Halfway through the film, we see Michael Myers walk into a room immediately followed by another Myers. Both are dressed nearly identically in a blue jumpsuit. But as soon as the first one turns around and we learn it's actually Freddie, the shot changes to Michael and back to him and he's wearing his jean jacket, seen in the rest of the movie.

In the first Halloween the kitchen of the Myers house is to the right of the front door, but in this one it's at the back of the house and to the left. 

In the flashbacks to Michael's escape in H20, why did they send one lonely paramedic in to get him? Not only that, Michael was able to promptly switch outfits with him, place him in his spot, and exit the scene before anyone else entered the room. In H20, the place was swarming with police and paramedics.

When Michael Myers has Sara cornered, he rotates the knife in his hand so the blade is pointed down. After being knocked backward by Freddie, Michael advances forward and once again rotates the knife to point the blade down, yet he never changed it back.

Facts You May Not Know

Actresses Jacinda Barrett was fist cast as Sara Moyer but dropped out at the last minute.

Halloween 8 was suppossed to come out on September 21st 2001 but the producers at Dimension Films weren't fully pleased with the movie so reshoots took place between September-October 2001.

Halloween IV director Dwight Little turned down the chance to direct Halloween 8.

Director Whitney Ransick also turned down the chance to direct Halloween 8.

In Laurie's room at the hospital you can see a crumpled up picture of Josh Hartnet who played her son on the wall.

In Michael's older sister's room you see that the window is broken. It was broken in the first Halloween and made the same shaped crack that is still there in this one.

The professor in the University at the beginning is named Dr. Mixter just like the doctor who gets a syringe stabbed through his eye in Halloween 2.  Mixter is played by Director Rick Rosenthal.

The doll that Laurie puts her pills into can be seen in the original Halloween, on Laurie's dresser (desk?) during the "obscene chewing" scene.

$30.259m (USA) gross

$12.292m (USA gross on opening weekend July 14th

Budget: $15m

·        Nora Winston's (Tyra Banks) death was originally an on-screen kill. You can see photos of this from publicity stills in which Michael can be seen standing behind Nora preparing to strangle her.

·        Jen is online and enters herself, Sara, and Rudy in the contest to spend the night in the childhood home of Michael Myers, only to be attacked by Michael. Following this scene Sara is seen getting out of the shower. She hears a noise and goes out of the bathroom but sees nothing. She returns to the bathroom and brushes her hair, only for Michael to set up in the bathtub. It turns out to be Rudy, dressed as Michael, who was playing a prank on Sara and Jen. This scene was cut because the producers felt it was "too goofy". Jen's encounter with Michael before she is killed was originally longer. After finding Bill's body she runs into a room and backs against the wall--only for Michael to come crashing through the wall. She then runs through the house until she meets up with the other survivors as in the final cut.

·        Scenes that appear in the previews but not the film include:

·        Bill looks in the mirror and sees Michael's reflection then turns to see he is not there before Michael jumps through the glass.

·        Jen stands against a wall and Michael's arms burst through it grabbing her.

·        Michael rising out of the bathtub behind Sara while she combs her hair.

·        Nora (Tyra Banks) standing on the front porch of Michael's house and yelling "Get out of the house!" (This one was most likely shot for promotional purposes only)

·        An extended version of the scene where Michael grabs Bill through the mirror appears in the original trailer. In the extended version Bill looks in the mirror, sees Michael standing behind him in the reflection and he turns around only to see that nobody is there. When he turns back around and looks into the mirror again Michael breaks through it and grabs him.

·        In the trailer, there is a scene showing Sara sitting down and brushing her hair in the bathroom, and Michael rising out of a water filled tub behind her. Though this scene is in the trailer, it is not in the theatrical release.

·        The original ending was alot less scary. After Freddy busts the cameraman, the CSI team investigates the scene. As a CSI women look down a hole where Michael slept, he jumps out and gets her. The theatrical ending was scarier and showed a coroner examining Michael's burnt face. His eyes then pop open as she screams. Also, the theatrical version seems to have longer shots of any death or gore than the original version.

·        In the rough cut screened in August 2001, the opening credits were different. The film's original opening featured footage from a home video of the Myers', featuring Peter and Margaret Myers in 1962 with their three children, Judith, Michael, and a new-born Laurie, having fun in the back yard of their house. Michael can be seen in the clips trying to divert the camera away from him, as he does not want to be filmed. However, Peter manages to get him to face the camera, and zooms in on Michael's face. The shot continues zooming through Michael's "black" eyes and opens up in the sanitarium hallway. This whole sequence is to the tune of an old fifties song "Darling Angel". 

Originally, there was a line of cut dialogue in the beginning of the film where Laurie Strode says to Michael "You will never find my son."  

·        In the original script, while Rudy and Michael are fighting, Michael grabs Rudy by his head and crushes it with the oven door. There was also a lot less fighting between the two. The producers changed this due to a longer fight scene.

Movie Trailer

Three years ago, Laurie Strode thought she had killed her psychopathic brother, Michael Myers.  She had killed a innocent man instead and therefore was committed to Grace Anderson Sanitarium.  The staff thinks that Laurie is suicidal but in reality Ms. Strode is waiting for her brother to return.  After all he always seems to find her. Meanwhile, back in Haddonfield.  Freddie Harris, an ambitious entrepreneur, is ready to make some money with his new "reality-based" internet event called "Dangertainment".  Six college students have been picked to spend the night in the home of Michael Myers while having it shown through webcams on the internet.  What they don't know is that Michael has come home, and he's ready to clean house!

Movie Review & Mike's Take

The film was a original concept but the basic meat of the movie was your typical horror movie.  There was little character development and a few parts seemed a bit lame.  But I loved the fact that the Myers house was recreated fairly accurately and that we were able to see the origins of Michael including his baby chair.  It was also cool to see where Michael goes and hides between movies and what he eats (rats).  Busta Rhymes is not a actor and I felt his lines were not delivered properly.  However he did have some interesting moments in the film especially when he dresses up as Michael Myers.  Tyra Banks is a hot model but not a actresses either.  The film did have a few scary scenes but nothing to write home about. Finally I felt that Michael's demise wasn't as good as I thought it would be.  I guess they have killed him in so many ways that they couldn't think of anything better. Even though I knew it was coming I really liked the beginning and the ending of this film.  I really appreciated Jamie Lee Curtis coming back for one more moment in the sun and I really liked how they made her hair to appear like it did in H1 and H2.  I really liked the ending sequence even though it didn't make me jump/.  I applaud the effort for making this film, the technology part of it was cool, the kill scenes were sweeter than H20 but other than that it is just as good but not better than H20.  I give it ** stars out of *****