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The film begins three years after the events of Halloween: H20 where Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the main character of the first two installments as well as H20, has been confined to a mental institution on the counts of murder. A retcon is established in which Laurie did not really decapitate Michael Myers at the end of the previous film, but rather a paramedic with whom Myers forcefully switched clothing and his mask. Laurie pretends to be heavily medicated, but in reality dodges her pills and prepares herself for the inevitable confrontation with Michael. When Michael does appear, Laurie lures him into a trap, but before she can kill him for good, he turns the tables on her. In a confrontation on the roof as she reaches over to pull off his mask to make sure it is actually her brother, he grabs her and pulls her over the edge with him, stabbing her in the process. She gives him a kiss, telling him she will see him in hell, and falls off the roof.

A year later, a group of six college students win a competition to appear on a reality show on which they are to spend Halloween night in the childhood home of Michael Myers. Their mission is to find out what led him to kill. The investigation is done in the style of the MTV reality show, Fear and is broadcast live on the internet. The participants think the show is entirely for entertainment purposes and that the stunt will earn them some publicity and scholarship money. While in the house, the event goes horribly wrong as Michael returns home and one by one, kills the students and the crew involved in the broadcast. Soon, all but one of the college students are murdered. Using her PDA and pen pal on the outside, Sara escapes. Ultimately, only Sara Moyer and Freddie Harris, the host of the show, survive. Toward the end Myers is electrocuted and is taken to a morgue, where a pair of male mortician jokes to a female colleague that there is a “celebrity” in the bag. When he explains who it is, she slowly opens his body bag so she can look. The camera angle changes to Michael’s perception from inside the mask as his eyes slide open and he looks around. As the screen goes black a scream is heard as the credits begin to roll^.

Ultimately, eleven people die in the film. This is also the only film in the Halloween series in which Michael trying to kill one of his relatives is not part of the main storyline.