Halloween (2007)

Film : Halloween (2007)

Director : Rob Zombie

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon Zombie

Certification: R 18+ (Australia)

Plot: (from IMDB) After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger

Size : 698Mb in 7 parts

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This is the one that had all he horror fanboys all upset a couple of years back. Rob Zombie's Halloween. When this was in production, there were many negative comments thrown about about how Zombie could make a remake of the classic Halloween (1978). Well Zombie has pulled a swiftie on us. This isn't just a remake, but a prequel as well. How about that for a talented Zombie?

Not quite, it is effective as a prequel, in that Zombie gives us a good glimpse of a ten year old Michael Myers. Did you know Michael was abused at home by his stepfather, bullied at school and was an animal mutilator? From Carpenter's film we have no idea about his childhood, save that he killed his sister on Halloween. Zombie's Halloween spends approximately 40 minutes of its 100 on a ten year old Michael. And this is where the film loses it for me. The original character of Michael Myers, (in the two Carpenter films) had no effort spent on showing sympathy for Michael. He was a "force of nature", a being who may or may not be supernatural, who did not deserve any audience sympathy. And this is what made him scary-because we did not know what he really was. (Apart from having "the devil's eyes" we have no idea about his makeup)

Zombie gives us 40 minutes of sympathy for Michael, then lauches into his remake with Michael stalking the babysitter - which is the whole point of Halloween.

Mind you, I respect what Zombie was trying to do. He has not simply remade Halloween, he has crafted his own film. He has not fallen into the Gus Van Sant remaking Psycho trap, and he has added parts to the film to make it his own, not a carbon copy of Carpenter's work. ¹

I'm calling this one as I see it. If it was an original film Zombie had come up with, (ie if the was no Carpenter Halloween) then it would score higher, but as it stands, as a remake/prequel to an existing film, I am only giving it two and a half Darios.



1 - Remakes can be good though. Look at The Maltese Falcon with Bogie. That was a remake...