After Halloween H20, it appeared that Michael Myers was finally dead, but the producers of the series, buoyed by that film’s success, decided to continue the saga with a seventh sequel.  It turns out that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) murdered the wrong man at the end of the last film and Michael is still alive.  He quickly dispatches Laurie, bringing an end to one of the great horror femmes in history, and then returns home.  A group of filmmakers have decided to place six college students in Myers’ house and webcast the results live on the internet.  Myers starts to off the victims until he is down to the leader of the production (Busta Rhymes, as terrible as you might guess) and a shy coed (Bianca Kajilch, forgettable).  A battle royale ensues and Myers may finally be dead…maybe.

After the promise of H20 things really deteriorate here.  Rick Rosenthal’s lazy, webcam filmmaking is a deep insult to the memory of the outstanding Panavision photography of the first film.  The acting couldn’t be much worse or amateurish.  Even the violence is dull.  This film is only for Halloween completists.  ☆.

MJM  05-12-2012