I can't confirm this, but I recall reading somewhere in a while back that Rick Rosenthal only directed a small portion of the final film and the majority of it was by someone else. If so, it would explain the HUGE drop in quality from the Halloween II.
shareNo. Sadly, Resurrection is all Rosenthal. He is the only one spoken to on the featurettes, the only one ever listed or mentioned in *anything* official about this film. You're thinking Halloween II. Rick Rosenthal made Halloween II as scary as an episode of Quincy, according to Carpenter, so he directed the blood and gore scenes to beef it up. Rosenthal had little to nothing to do with Halloween II. Even Dino DeLaurentiis, Akkad, other Universal execs all were cooks in that kitchen.
Rosenthal was solely responsible for 8. And they would've said otherwise, because they did so for II and III which was not written entirely by Tommy Lee Wallace, it was him, Carpenter, Nigel Kneale. That's a well know fact. Nothing I've ever seen in 14 years since Res. came out even suggests someone else directed it. Don't you think they'd have spoken up by now?
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN