History YMMV / HalloweenResurrection

** Why did Michael spare Freddie after he chewed him out while dressed as him? Was he hoping to frame Freddie for his kills? Or was he so annoyed by him that he thought saving him for last would be satisfying?

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Donna's death]] is actually pretty horrifying. After discovering a half-eaten rat below the house, she gets chased to an old gate with a sharp railing sticking out. She tries to climb through it, but Michael gets there and just calmly forces her back-first through the spike.

** While her performance isn't the best, Tyra Banks' character Nora has grown in popularity over the years, mostly because she seems to be having fun and doesn't seem either lifeless like Sara or Donna or TooDumbToLive like Jen. This has caused many to wish she had been the FinalGirl.

* TheScrappy: Sara, primarily due to her boring character and Bianca Kajlich's [[DullSurprise lifeless performance]].

** Michael Myers wasn't in the whole movie. He was there during the opening scene where he killed Laurie but the rest of the movie involved the serial killer fanatic that Myers encountered in the opening movie took his place, while the real Myers is just hiding somewhere. After he killed Laurie him passing the knife to that fanatic could be seen as his way of saying "I'm retired".

* TheScrappy: Sarah, primarily due to her boring character and Bianca Kajlich's [[DullSurprise lifeless performance]].

*** Related to Laurie being institutionalized in the opening sequence and the way that the [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater previous film]] ignored the ''Halloween 4-6'' timeline, the film could have chosen to almost seamlessly reverse the arguably already [[BroadStrokes soft]] {{Retcon}} of Jamie Lloyd's storyline in the previous film by simply acknowledging many of the elements from the third and final issue of the ''Halloween'' CHAOS! Comics series that ties ''4-6'' and ''H20'' together, in which Laurie Strode herself becomes the "Shape" and is straightjacketed in a mental hospital at the end of the issue (e.g., by claiming that Laurie fled the scene of the paramedic beheading and suffered a psychotic break that caused her to temporarily "become" Michael, much like Jamie did in ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', before being apprehended, becoming lucid again, and [[TheAtoner atoning for her previous actions]] by continuing with her original goal to end the cycle of violence and kill Michael, who is actually still alive unlike in the last of the CHAOS! comics). Having killed innocent people herself in both ''H20'' and the final CHAOS! Comics issue, it would also possibly explain why she is almost affectionate toward Michael as she dies (being able to relate to him better than before as both his sister ''and'' someone who followed in his footsteps as a one-time serial murderer).

*** Related to Laurie being institutionalized in the opening sequence and the way that the [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater previous film]] ignored the ''Halloween 4-6'' timeline, the film could have chosen to almost seamlessly reverse the arguably already [[BroadStrokes soft]] {{Retcon}} of Jamie Lloyd's storyline in the previous film by simply acknowledging many of the elements from the third and final issue of the ''Halloween'' CHAOS! Comics series that ties ''4-6'' and ''H20'' together, in which Laurie Strode herself becomes the "Shape" and is straightjacketed in a mental hospital at the end of the issue (e.g., by claiming that Laurie fled the scene of the paramedic beheading and suffered a psychotic break that caused her to temporarily "become" Michael, much like Jamie did in ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', before being apprehended, becoming lucid again, and continuing with her original goal to kill Michael, who is actually still alive unlike in the last of the CHAOS! comics). Having killed innocent people herself in both ''H20'' and the final CHAOS! Comics issue, it would also possibly explain why she is almost affectionate toward Michael as she dies (being able to relate to him better than before as both his sister ''and'' someone who followed in his footsteps as a one-time serial murderer).

*** Related to Laurie being institutionalized in the opening sequence and the way that the [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater previous film]] ignored the ''Halloween 4-6'' timeline, the film could have chosen to almost seamlessly reverse the arguably already [[BroadStrokes soft]] {{Retcon}} of Jamie Lloyd's storyline in the previous film by simply acknowledging many of the elements from the third and final issue of the ''Halloween'' CHAOS! Comics series that ties ''4-6'' and ''H20'' together, in which Laurie Strode herself becomes the "Shape" and is straightjacketed in a mental hospital at the end of the issue (e.g., by claiming that Laurie fled the scene of the paramedic beheading and suffered a psychotic break that caused her to temporarily "become" Michael, much like Jamie did in ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', before being apprehended, becoming lucid again, and continuing with her original goal to kill Michael, who is actually still alive unlike in the last of the CHAOS! comics). Having killed innocent people herself in both ''H20'' and the final CHAOS! Comics issue, it would also possibly explain why she is almost affectionate toward Michael as she dies (being able to relate to him better as both his sister ''and'' someone who followed in his footsteps as a one-time serial murderer).

*** Related to Laurie being institutionalized in the opening sequence and the way that the [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater previous film]] ignored the ''Halloween 4-6'' timeline, the film could have chosen to almost seamlessly reverse the arguably already [[BroadStrokes soft]] {{Retcon}} of Jamie Lloyd's storyline in the previous film by simply acknowledging many of the elements from the third and final issue of the ''Halloween'' CHAOS! Comics series that ties ''4-6'' and ''H20'' together, in which Laurie Strode herself becomes the "Shape" and is straightjacketed in a mental hospital at the end of the issue (e.g., by claiming that Laurie fled the scene of the paramedic beheading and suffered a psychotic break that caused her to temporarily "become" Michael, much like Jamie did in ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', before being apprehended, becoming lucid again, and continuing with her original goal to kill Michael, who is actually still alive unlike in the last of the CHAOS! comics).

*** Related to Laurie being institutionalized in the opening sequence and the way that the previous film ignored the ''Halloween 4-6'' timeline, the film could have chosen to almost seamlessly reverse the arguably already [[BroadStrokes soft]] {{Retcon}} of Jamie Lloyd's storyline in the [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater previous film]] by simply acknowledging many of the elements from the third and final issue of the ''Halloween'' CHAOS! Comics series that ties ''4-6'' and ''H20'' together, in which Laurie Strode herself becomes the "Shape" and is straightjacketed in a mental hospital at the end of the issue (e.g., by claiming that Laurie fled the scene of the paramedic beheading and suffered a psychotic break that caused her to temporarily "become" Michael, much like Jamie did in ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', before being apprehended, becoming lucid again, and continuing with her original goal to kill Michael, who is actually still alive unlike in the last of the CHAOS! comics).

*** Related to Laurie being institutionalized in the opening sequence and the way that the previous film ignored the ''Halloween 4-6'' timeline, the film could have chosen to almost seamlessly reverse the arguably already [[BroadStrokes soft]] {{Retcon}} of Jamie Lloyd's storyline in the [[Film/HalloweenH20 previous film]] by simply acknowledging many of the elements from the third and final issue of the ''Halloween'' CHAOS! Comics series that ties ''4-6'' and ''H20'' together, in which Laurie Strode herself becomes the "Shape" and is straightjacketed in a mental hospital at the end of the issue (e.g., by claiming that Laurie fled the scene of the paramedic beheading and suffered a psychotic break that caused her to temporarily "become" Michael, much like Jamie did in ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', before being apprehended, becoming lucid again, and continuing with her original goal to kill Michael, who is actually still alive unlike in the last of the CHAOS! comics).

*** The film sets up an intriguing twist on Michael's character - that he still considers the Myers house his home. This is the first time he's had a ''reason'' for killing people other than his family members other than "they're in my way". And the film does ''nothing'' with it. ''[[Film/HalloweenKills]]'' executed the idea in a much better fashion.

** Going by their in-depth on-set interviews, most of the actors don't seem to be aware of just how ridiculous of a movie they're in... except for Luke Kirby (Jim), who confessed in his interview that since he was in a "campy" film, he didn't have to worry too much about his performance. Busta Rhymes also appears to be playing up the ridiculousness of his role.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film dates itself to the 2000s by incorporating the then-cutting edge technology into the plot. Sara is the only character with a phone that can send and receive messages - and it's on a typical 2000s flip phone. Her and Miles are friends from an online chatroom, only knowing each other by screen names, and Jen is suspicious of him for this reason - when even ten years later, online friends would be so common due to social media (which of course isn't mentioned). The film shows it was also made when reality TV was at the height of pop culture (Jen referencing ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' at the time too). The fact that the characters don't have access to the internet 24/7 dates the film to a time when it was only starting to become a fixture in everyday life.
* WereStillRelevantDammit: The film attempted to get in on the Internet gaining widespread attraction by having its main plot center around an Internet reality show hosted by Music/BustaRhymes of all people (playing another character, mind you). However, all of the extremely forced references to how cool and up-to-date the Internet is only succeed in severely dating the film to its early 2000s roots. No one watching today, in a world where the Internet is so massively ubiquitous that most people spend half their day using it, would ever find the inclusion of it as anything but forced and laughable.

*** The film sets up an intriguing twist on Michael's character - that he still considers the Myers house his home. This is the first time he's had a ''reason'' for killing people other than his family members other than "they're in my way". And the film does ''nothing'' with it.

* AssPull: The whole "Michael replaced an ambulance worker for himself at the end of ''H20''" revelation at the start. It wasn't exactly a ''true'' Ass Pull, since producer Moustapha Akkad had planned the idea to get out of ''H20''[='=]s ending ever since they shot it, but even hardcore fans didn't buy it. It was originally worse; the Michael Myers in H20 wasn't actually Michael, it was an obsessive fan. It may have made more sense, but it would've been a very hard twist to defend. Par for the course for Akkad, who signed off on the ending of 4 with Jamie taking over as the killer in the series, but had no intention of following up on it.

** Jim tends to be fairly well liked, primarily due to his funny one-liners and style

* FanonDiscontinuity: Many fans prefer to regard ''H20'' as the ending to the original series, if only because it was a great definitive end to the series and this movie utterly disrespects that. [[DisownedAdaptation They aren't alone either]], as Creator/JamieLeeCurtis and Creator/JohnCarpenter don't have a high opinion of the movie either. Curtis sees the movie as a joke, while Carpenter tends to ignore all films past the first one.

** Jamie Lee Curtis having [[spoiler:Laurie killed in the opening sequence]] in order to not do any more films in the series. 16 years later, she [[Film/Halloween2018 returned to the role yet again]] - for a trilogy, in fact (assuming she appears in all three) - [[CanonDiscontinuity undoing the events of all films except]] [[Film/Halloween1978 the first]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Michael Myers wasn't in the whole movie. He was there during the opening scene where he killed Laurie but the rest of the movie involved the serial killer fanatic that Myers encountered in the opening movie took his place, while the real Myers is just hiding somewhere. After he killed Laurie him passing the knife to that fanatic could be seen as his way of saying "I'm retired".