Filmland - Halloween: Resurrection

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As I write this, the entertainment news circuit is momentarily preoccupied with two major discussions: the announcement of a new Halloween remake film and the performance of Busta Rhymes at this year’s Grammies.  Clearly, there will never be a better time to discuss the bizarre curiosity that is 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection.  For the uninformed, Resurrection was the final Halloween film made before Rob Zombie’s remakes, and it is incredibly, stupidly, bizarre.  It’s a mixed up and ill-informed attempt to prolong a franchise that never had that much gas in the tank well beyond its mileage. 

Yes, 1 year after the ignominious Jason X more or less killed the Slasher genre Halloween Resurrection moved in to make extra sure that the genre was dead.  How dead on arrival was this film?  Well, the story is about a reality TV show being filmed at the old Myers house when Michael sets upon the various contestants, and their only hope is the show’s two producers: Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes. 

Static Thoughts - Remain Indoors

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As I write this, the world is a scary place.  Fascism is globally on the rise, the ice caps are melting, the incoming President of the US seems shockingly okay with throwing nuclear weapons around like candy- it’s easy to see us marching headfirst into some kind of apocalypse.  Luckily for us, we can at least have a bit of a chuckle at our impending doomsday as the end of times has actually provided quite a bit of fodder for comedy.  

More recently you’ve had hits like The World’s End, or This is the End and even the show Last Man on Earth all trying to find the humor in mankind’s great disaster.  Personally, though, my favorite comedy take on what to expect after humanity experiences its final night comes from the British sketch comedy duo Mitchell and Webb in a reoccurring segment from their 3^rd and 4^th seasons entitled ‘Remain Indoors,’ about a game show being broadcast in the wake of the apocalypse.