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Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 10/21/2008 Rating: Ur
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More of a supercharged revamp than a remake, Rob Zombie's take on John Carpenter's Halloween expands the back story of masked killer Michael Myers in an attempt to examine the motivation for his first deadly attack, as well as some reasons for his longevity as a horror icon. Zombie's Myers is a blank-eyed teen (played by Daeg Faerch) whose burgeoning mental problems are left unchecked in a horrific home environment; harassed by schoolmates, a randy sister, and his mother's deadbeat boyfriend (William Forsythe, terrific as usual), Myers' homicidal explosion seems inevitable, and intervention by Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell, who offers a fast-talking, hippiefied version of the Donald Pleasance character) does little to impede his development into a mute, unstoppable killing machine (Tyler Mane) bent on finishing off the only survivor of his family's massacre--his sister, now grown into teenaged Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton). Opening up the psychological motivation of a cipher like Michael Myers is an interesting approach, but Zombie's script possesses neither a depth of character nor dialogue to offer more than a cliched thumbnail character sketch, and devoting over a hour of the unrated cut's 120-minute-plus running time to this history feels bloated and self-indulgent (especially when compared to the lean efficiency of the Carpenter original). Zombie's Halloween isn't terribly suspenseful, either; he has a keen eye for visuals and the details of chaotic environments, but his scares are nothing more than brutal showcases for his special effects team. The end result barely surpasses the original film's numerous sequels, though the Who's Who of cult and character actors in the cast (including Zombie regulars Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Ken Foree, as well as Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Richard Lynch, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, and Danielle Harris) adds a touch of late-night monster movie charm. However, the film's best performance belongs to the director's spouse, Sheri Moon Zombie, who brings unexpected pathos to the role of Myers' downtrodden mother. The two-disc Unrated Director's Cut offers a full disc's worth of extras that should please Zombie fans; chief among the supplemental features is his commentary, which details the film's shooting history and the numerous edits required to deliver the theatrical version. A making-of featurette offers further details of Zombie's vision for the film, and there are featurettes on his cast choices and the many masks that Myers makes while incarcerated. Seventeen deleted scenes (two of which feature Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Towles) and an alternate ending (all with Zombie's commentary) are also provided, as well as footage from the casting sessions. A blooper reel, which is highlighted by unchecked mischief by McDowell and Dourif, offers the set's sole moment of levity. -- Paul Gaita
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 Zombie Holocaust December 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Director Rob Zombie shows us in his remake of the classic, Halloween, how to grab the money and run.
First of all, you don't want to create anything fresh or original--like the original "Halloween, "Alien," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," etc. You can always remake a third-rate Asian horror import because all the special effects you need are to slap white make-up on the faces of Asian kids, pile on black mascara and make them bulge their eyes and grit their teeth. Or, you can make the l5th or 20th sequel to a once brilliant original like "Saw". Or, you can just go back to the original classic--in this case "Halloween"--and know that you'll be guaranteed tons of free buzz on the internet. The younger movie buffs who never saw the original will be guaranteed to fill up the seats for this much ballyhooed remake.
In this remake, Zombie has trashed everything that made the original so treasured by its fans. Instead of likeable, suburban characters, who wore attractive clothes and seemed to be fond of each other, he gives us a world of sleazy, repulsive jerks who engender no sympathy from the audience. Michael Myers, terrifying and mysterious, in the original, is now a towering, seven foot gorilla. In fact, the first hour of this travesty is spent studying the evolution of Myers from moon-faced idiot to his adult monsterhood. His step-father is a human monster, disguised as red-neck nutjob, his sister is a skanky, hard-faced idiot and his mother, a stripper, is so weak-minded in her love for her little monster, that you care nothing about their fates.
Just as bad is the casting of the youngsters. Jaime Lee Curtis was completely likable and sympathetic, as the sweet, naive young girl. Although her two girlfriends were more frisky, you still liked them, too. Also, they all wore attractive clothes. In the remake, the girls live in their boring jeans and tennis shoes and sweatshirts. They look no different from the other colorless clones you see at a mall. Show them a skirt or a dress and they'd probably scratch their heads and go, "Duh, what's dat?"
There's a total lack of suspense as Michael Myers becomes the destroyer. You see him too much, for one thing, and his William Shatner white mask becomes boring. When he removes it, you see a good-looking young guy with stringy hair but with neatly manicured fingers. He trashes rooms and murders everyone in his path until finally, you're yawning and glancing at the clock and thinking: how much longer is going to continue. The original used a brilliant musical score, composed by the movie's director, John Carpenter. The music is an integral part to the original's greatness. It was used sparingly or brilliantly and greatly enhanced the sheer fear. In this remake, it's thrown in from the very beginning until you forget you're even listening to it.
The new Laurie spends the entire seond half of the movies shrieking non-stop, screaming and weeping and gibbering. If I was trying to escape from a killer, I think I'd be as quiet as possible and save my breath. In her boring jeans and tennis shoes and sweater and ugly glasses, she's as dull and forgettable as her mall buddies.
Equally irritating is the way the girls try to be playful and talk funny by swallowing their words and going nasal and gooching each other. They're always trying to act scary by fluttering their fingers and disguising their voices to sound scary.
Although the original featured some nudity, Zombie wallows in it--female, that is, although you never see any male nudity. The girls are hard, snarling, tough and repellant. It's not the fault of the performers. They all try hard. It's the way they're directed that drains them of any likablity or audience identification. Even the first scene where we see Laurie and her parents over the breakfast table is ruined when Laurie makes a sexual joke using a finger and a bagel. Why? You want to slap her because she seems to think she's the cutest and sharpest girl in the world.
I remember those old, golden times in a theater where movie-makers would occasionally thrill us with brilliant, original fantasy and horror--with movies like "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Psycho," "The Thing," "Alien," "Nightmare on Elm Street." Now and then, we do get something original like "Jeepers Creepers".
But mostly, it's sequel after lousy sequel and worst of all, lousy remakes of golden classics. If you've never seen the original, "Halloween," watch it and see why it'll be watched for decades to come--and disasters like its endless sequels and terrible remakes like this one will be relegated to the garbage dumps.
Nope December 25, 2008
All this talk about how this movie brilliantly delves into the Myers past, is completely overlooking one thing. In Carpenters's Halloween, Michael's family was 100% noraml. This movie is nothing but a stolen remake from a man who has run out of ideas of his own. Borrowing from others to assure his ego that he's Rob Zombie the awesome one.
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It Sucks
A Remake That Should NEVER Have Been Made... December 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, this film is so shallow, cliched, and tired I don't even know where to begin. Zombie somehow manages to take a beloved classic (which was so good to begin with that it didn't ned to be remade in the first place) and destroy just about everything great about it.
Where to begin? The dialogue is incredibly insipid, crass, and totally unbelievable. The characters are thinner and more one-dimensional than a piece of white paper, and the motivations are absolutely straight out of a "how to make a B-movie" manual. The Michael Myers backstory is so cliched that it's laughable; he comes from a seriously dysfunctional household with an abusive/alcoholic father, a stripper mother who is barely hanging on to life, and a cruel, whore sister. Therefore, poor Michael becomes a serial killer! Makes sense, right? Not really...but, Zombie would like to fool people into thinking it does.
The three heroines from the original are back in the form of Anie, Linda, and of course, beloved Laurie. Except these three girls are transformed from charming, wonderful, smart-alecky (in a cute way) girls into obnoxious, mean-spirited, vacuous, shallow twits who we can't even begin to care about. Even Laurie herself fails to elicit much sympathy or empathy from the audience due to her being just plain stupid and rather, as I said before, obnoxious.
Loomis is transformed from a venerable, noble, and sympathetic Doctor into an egocentric, clueless, simpleton. One can't feel any respect or identification with him either.
Finally, there's Michael himself. In this incarnation, Michael turns from a child into a hulking behemoth...a 6 foot 8 inch bulking monster of a man. Where's the suspense, horror, mystery, fright, or aura of terror in this idea? I won't delve deeply into the "what makes Michael work" argument...but, making him 8' 9" tall and built like a Hummer does NOT show basic comprehension for what made Michael such a legendary terror to begin with. If bigger = scarier...why not just turn him into a 12' 8" cyborg fashioned out of the remains of other serial killers and Nazi tanks? Turning Myers into the Hulk doesn't make him scarier per se. In fact, it has the opposite effect because it's too obvious, lazy and cliched. Everyone is expected to be scared of a HUGE man in a mask...but think of it this way. Real life serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy were "normal" guys. They appeared "normal" on the exterior and were also "normal" sized; but they were absolutely evil and some accounts also say they possessed inhuman strength. You wouldn't expect that from people who just look like they are the "guy next door". And THAT'S what makes them so scary. You would expect a 6'8" hulking monster to be superhumanly strong...but you would absolutely NOT expect a man who stands just above 6 feet to be a completely indestructible force of nature. Sure, Zombie's version is more obvious...but that's also why it's so much less scary to some people. There's no mystery and no subtlety to Zombie's Myers, we expect exactly what we get. And therein lies the problem. The original Myers had a quiet stealth and mystery to him that was truly disturbing; Nick Castle didn't simply walk while wearing the mask...he glided. He moved smoothly and efficiently, like a shark. And because of his "normal" stature, it made it even scarier when he performed superhuman feats of strength and stamina.
When I first saw the film, I wasn't sure whether or not to blame most of my dislikes on the actors...but then I realized, they were doing their best given the material they had to work with. The fault lies with the director/writer for even putting such trash to paper in the first place.
Naturally, when this film was announced and the director revealed, audiences shouldn't have expected a shot-for-shot remake of the original. But, audiences WERE expecting a film with intelligence, style, and a basic comprehension and respect for what made "Halloween" work in the first place. Zombie showed NONE of those things. Instead he caters to the average IQ level of the reality-TV-slurping cro-magnons who have the attention span and aesthetic sensibility of a pre-schooler. He took a great idea, a masterpiece of horror and dumbed it down...stripped it of it's mystery and subtlety, and thus its effectiveness...and layered it with white-trash characters, foul-mouthed and crass teens that are unlikeable, and poured buckets of blood on it; he made it more "today". That's NOT necessarily a good thing.
 A slasher directed by a Zombie! December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Halloween (2007) Initially I was very disappointed to hear that the next movie from the Halloween franchise would be yet another "reboot," or "reimagining" of the original movie rather than another sequel. I'm torn on this trend of remaking the classic horror films of my youth, initially finding most unnecessary. But at the same time, I came to realize that a set of British remakes of the Universal Studios Monsters movies of the 30's resulted in the Hammer Horror series nearly thirty years later, so there is some precedent of quality and worth. At the same time, I'm also one of the few people who will cut an eighth horror sequel some slack. Later I was a tiny bit less disappointed to hear that Rob Zombie had been chosen to write and direct the reboot as I have enjoyed his other movies to varying extents. Zombie's Halloween grounds Michael Myers in a horrible white trash upbringing, spending the first fifty minutes detailing why he descends into madness and murder. Part of that extra time is spent in Smith's Grove, giving more screen time to Dr. Loomis, now played by Malcolm McDowell. After that the story basically follows Carpenter's original with the almost feminine looking and tiny ten year old somehow growing to be 6'5'' Tyler Mane on institution food and becoming kind of a Terminator, bashing through walls to grab his victims instead of silently popping out at them from the dark. He pursues Laurie, Annie, and Linda through their worst October 31st ever, but also grabs several other victims every chance he gets, tripling the body count of the original Halloween. The supernatural dread Michael Myers originally had is muted by his grounded in reality origin all the way through the new movie's finale, a far cry from the sick fear you felt when Michael's body was no longer lying on the ground in front of the Wallace home. Weirdly, although I find this more realistic origin undermining to Michael Myer's ability to be fearsome, I find the movie's first 50 minutes more entertaining than the last hour, though the greasy long hair on everybody started to be annoying eventually. In fact, during the final chase between Michael and Laurie I grew bored, ready for the movie to just wrap it up. Overall, it is kinda fun to see how Zombie populates nearly every adult speaking part with a familiar genre face, but even that starts to grate when a lot of them are only on screen for a few seconds or don't even speak. As far as the negatives go, I dislike almost every bit of casting Zombie did on the younger cast, especially Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie. Jamie Lee Curtis was so good as Laurie in 1978, and this new actress pales so far in comparison. Her Laurie is actually unlikable, and most of the time I couldn't even tell her and Linda apart even with the glasses shtick. The only bright spot among the younger cast is Danielle Harris as Annie. Harris, a vet of Halloweens 4 and 5 is a bright spot here and completely pulls off being a high schooler even though the actress was around 30 at the time of the production. I was a little sad to see her do a nude scene this far into her career though. McDowell is probably the best choice you could make to play Loomis, but it was a mistake for him to avoid watching the original, because he never takes the character as far out as Donald Pleasance did which is who Loomis is. And it's not as if McDowell isn't capable of scenery chewing when he chooses. So, to put the final nail in this one, though there is a level of quality to this production and a few positive moments here and there, this remake is one of those unnecessary ones I mentioned.
 Better then the original December 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying i LOVE the halloween series,every single one of the movies were good in my opinion.i thought this remake was excellent and in many ways surpased the horror classic from 1978.this is how michael myers should always have been brutal and in your face.it has the blood and gore that should have been in the original but werent due to limited budget.i have seen this movie so many times and love it.i hope rob zombie does a few more halloween movies.those that complain about this movie are just mad that the remake became better then the source matterial.just like the remakes to hills have eyes and texas chainsaw massacre were better then their originals.even if your not a fan of halloween you will be after seeing this modern masterpiece of horror.sit back,turn off the light,and prepare to be taken for a great horror ride.long live michael myers and the return of terror to this beloved series.even the mask looks beter in this movie.
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