There's some blood splatter but not much actual gore, there's an impressively bloody slit throat but little else. It's always a bad sign when you are sitting watching a film & you keep repeating 'please just finish' in your mind for the last thirty minutes. It's undoubtedly well made but it's shallow, forgettable & at just under two hours far too long & drawn out. I didn't like the character's that much, Laurie in particular was very annoying & by the end I was rooting for Michael & hoped he would just kill her if not just to stop her irritating screaming.ĭirector Zombie goes the modern route and instead of nice long establishing shots and camera moves there's plenty of quick cuts & shaky hand held camera movement. Carpenter's efficient and economic original did the same in less than half that time. The first forty odd minutes of Halloween sets the Michael character up, the protracted killing of his family, scenes of his treatment and breakout. These explanations offer nothing new or any sort of significant motivation other than he had a difficult childhood. With the remake Zombie has decided to go into Michael's head & give him lots of background & reasoning behind what he does and who he is which I must confess bored me. Carpenter's original Halloween is considered by many as one of the finest tension filled slasher films ever, it's simple basic self contained story of a psychopath out to kill Laurie. Like most horror films that were coming out at the time, Halloween went to theatres as an 'R' rated version and subsequently released on DVD shortly after in an 'Unrated' director's cut which not only lasts for twenty minutes longer but has many scenes changed and altered including Michael's prison break which is totally different in the two versions to the extent even different actor's were used in the sequence. These remakes are a bit of a mixed bag some being great while others are plain terrible and I would say in my opinion the Halloween remake is somewhere between the two, I didn't like it that much but I didn't flat out hate it either. Written, co-produced & directed by Rob Zombie (real name Robert Cummings) this remake of John Carpenter's widely considered classic Halloween (1978) continued the 2000's trend of Hollywood studios remaking classic horror films such as Dawn of the Dead (2004), The Fog (2005), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Black Christmas (2006), The Wicker Man (2006) & The Hitcher (2007) to name but a few. Michael heads back for Haddonfield where he intends to find & kill his last remaining relative Laurie Strode (not Jamie Lee Curtis) who is blissfully unaware that she even has a brother.
Two guards attempt to rape a female patient late one night & Michael is given an opportunity to escape which he happily takes killing anyone who tries to stop him. Jump forward fifteen years later & Michael hasn't said a word in that time, he is now just an empty shell of pure hatred & evil. Michael is convicted of murder and incarcerated in Smiths Grove Sanitarium & treated under the supervision of Dr. Halloween starts in Haddonfield, Illinois on October 31 where abused & psychologically disturbed 10 year old Michael Myers goes postal and murders his stepfather Ronnie (William Forsythe), his sister Judith (Hanna Hall) & her boyfriend Steve (Adam Weisman) not necessarily in that order. So upon watching them again, I took the time to review them on Halloween (fittingly) and so here are my thoughts on them. So take your pick, but Rob Zombie's Halloween movies are average at best horror movies, and nowhere near as great as the original. When I heard Rob Zombie directed the remake of Halloween, I had mixed feelings about it, considering Halloween is one of the greatest slasher movie if not the most influential slasher movie of all time, and without it we wouldn't have Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street or have Scream.