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Cashing in on The Shape's cult status, an Internet company that owns the domain MichaelMyers.com (which, interestingly enough, is currently owned by someone who has nothing to do with the Halloween films) decide to stage a live event on, wait for it... Halloween. A group of college students, armed with cameras, will be sent into the original Michael Myers house mainly to poke around, à la Blair Witch Project. The entire film is not done in that first person format, however, which should satisfy those of you out there (you know who you are) who hated that style of filmmaking. It really comes off more like Haxan's short lived television series Freaky Links the website is a feature of the film and almost another character but not the whole film.

The group is pretty much what you'd expect to see in a slasher flick. Not a shock considering the first part of the film consists of the Internet producers choosing them to be just that. There's Jim, the typical college party dude; Donna, the social activist who is into the mythology of serial killers; Jenna, the aspiring model; Sara , the "good girl" (the part rumored to already have been cast with Soul Survivors star Melissa Sagemuller); and a few others who have typical, fill-in-the-blank personalities, i.e.: prime canon fodder. Once in the house, things start to go awry as The Shape (or something like him) starts to appear, causing trouble. But things really go south when the group discovers that things aren't what they seem in the house. Members of the group betray others and the situation rapidly begins to fall apart. As you would expect, the final third of the script is where the bloodshed really begins. And it's all being broadcast live on the 'Net to an audience who doesn't know if what they're seeing is real or not. Think of it as Survivor in the psycho ward.