Halloween: Resurrection

Halloween Series (nowplayingpodcast.com/series/halloween) Episode 8

What happens when you throw reality TV, early-2000s internet culture, martial arts, and Michael Myers into a blender? You get Halloween: Resurrection. Despite the previous film’s seemingly definitive ending, The Shape is back again, this time stalking a live-streamed haunted house event designed to cash in on Haddonfield’s bloody history. Featuring Busta Rhymes (Higher Learning) delivering roundhouse kicks and reality-show chaos front and center, Resurrection leans hard into the trends of its era. But does this attempt at a modern, “hip” reimagining inject new life into the franchise, or does it finally push the series past the point of no return? The hosts step into the house one more time to decide whether this revival was inspired or ill-advised.