7) Halloween: Resurrection

Set a few years after the events of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, this sequel opens with Laurie institutionalized and most definitely not OK after decapitating Michael at the end of that film—except, as we soon find out when Resurrection frantically scripts itself into justifying its existence, it wasn’t Michael! He pulled a Hannibal Lecter and swapped places with an EMT! Michael is still aliiiive! And the first thing he does is… kill Laurie. Booooo!

Halloween logic dictates that Michael’s next stop on the murder train should be John, Laurie’s son in this continuity (played by Josh Hartnett in H20), but nah. Halloween: Resurrection instead embraces the newfangled world of livestreaming, shifting to a narrative in which college kids participating in a reality competition called Dangertainment are locked inside Michael’s old home for a Halloween stunt while the cameras roll. Little do they know Mr. Myers himself has been squatting in the sub-basement—presumably since 1978, with a side trip from Illinois to California to chase after Laurie in H20.

More than any other movie on this list, Resurrection feels quite dated thanks to its eager embrace of the finest technology 2002 could provide, and there’s some humor that feels backward by 2020 standards. But at least it injects a little something new into the narrative—and there’s some fun sprinkled in the cast, with a pre-Battlestar Galactica Katee Sackhoff playing a fame-hungry contestant alongside Busta Rhymes (who gets to deliver the line “Trick or treat, motherfucker!”) as Dangertainment’s very excitable producer.