THE RESURRECTION OF MICHAEL MYERS PART 2 (1989)

 THANKS TO CHRIS WINGER (HIS VIDEO IS BELOW) FOR BRINGING THIS MOVIE TO MY ATTENTION!

A shot-on-video gem from 1989 that is WAY better than it has any right to be.  It's also genuinely hilarious; and I could only watch it without subtitles in it's original Swedish.  THE RESURRECTION OF MICHAEL MYERS PART 2 (yes, there is a part 1) was apparently only ever released in a super-rare videotape in the 80's and never had a DVD release. . . which is a real shame because it's incredibly fun.  At 25 minutes, it's also quite digestible (especially for the zombie that's in the movie but we'll get to that a little later).  A guy is in a movie theater watching John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN when he starts foaming at the mouth.  The ambulance comes and takes him to the hospital where the staff is having a wild Halloween party.  One partygoers throws his Michael Myers mask on the floor and it spontaneously skitters across the floor and morphs into the real Michael Myers. 

The Shatner-masked maniac ends up in the hospital room of the "foaming at the mouth"guy and sticks some gardening shears into the doctor's head. The dead doctor is found lying on the floor by some other staff members and his skin has turned blue.  "I wonder if he's blue down there too" asks the nurse as she unzips the dead doc's fly and roots around in his crotchal area.  The dead doc comes back to life as a zombie and offs the pair.  Meanwhile, in another hospital room, a doctor and nurse are getting frisky.  They accidentally knock a beaker of green goop onto a Fangoria magazine on the floor and this causes Leatherface and Jason to appear.  More killings ensue . . most of them hilarious.  There are 2 security guards who are silly as hell.  They separate and one goes into the men's room and has an argument with a condom machine when he hears explosive diarrhea coming from a stall.  It's Michael Myers, who stuffs the guard down the toilet and flushes.  A nurse encounters Michael Myers in the hallway and gives him a swig from her champagne bottle.  After taking a swig, Michael bashes her over the head with the bottle and shoves the broken bottle into her mouth.  In another hallway, Leatherface and Jason have a super-violent slow-motion kung fu fight with the Zombie Doc.  A guy selling bootleg videotapes of THE RESURRECTION OF MICHAEL MYERS PART 1 encounters Michael Myers in the hall and gets a videotape shoved into his mouth! 

 

The blood & gore effects here are actually top notch for a small SOV movie and I was quite impresseed by the work done by Goran Lundstrom, Kaj Steveman and Jocke Lindman.  There's a super duper synthesizer score by Christer "Simply Blue" Planborg & Mats "Max Rodes" Nilsson which I'd actually love to have on a soundtrack album.  This includes a theme song called "The Resurrection of Michael Myers" which rocks.  And yes, the Superviolent Slowmotion Kung Fu looks really well done too; it's credited to Mikael Beckman and is called exactly that:  Superviolent Slowmotion Kung Fu Choreographer.  Nicely done!  This is quite probably the new 'best movie ever made', gang.  It's such a shame it's not on a really nice release by STS or Vinegar Syndrome or somebody like that who appreciate and celebrate low-budget horror that's such a lot of fun.  Ah well, maybe someday.