Rob Zombie's "Halloween" Remake

Meh. I'm not a fan of the original, so I hoped this would be better, and while it's definately better, it's nothing special. The sex scenes are generic, the gore is good, but of course, spointing out that a horror movie has good gore is like saying "Hey, that movie has COLOR!" these days.

The previews they showed made it worth going. The Mist, a new Stephen King movie, looks good, and it has the same sort of "People trapped in a confined area get frustrated with each other" drama that makes me like zombie movies so much.

One Missed Call is yet another remake of a Japanese horror movie. I'm not excited about it. At all.

One thing I liked about Halloween is that Ken Foree has a small role as a truck driver. (Ken is the black dude, Peter, in the original Dawn of the Dead. He also played the televangelist in the remake of Dawn of the Dead from 2004.)


One of my main attractions for this movie was Malcolm McDowell as Loomis. McDowell played Alex in the Stanley Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange. He also plays a character in the TV series Heroes. Well, here's one place where the movie delivered. McDowell is a natural for the role, and I wasn't disappointed at all with him.

The movie is notable as a remake for expanding on the character, mainly on his psycopathic tendancy, especially when SPOILERS Michael kills the Janitor who was always nice to the growing Michael for 20 years, taking care of him and giving advice/SPOILERS. His motivation for stalking the female lead is more fully present, and he seems far more inhuman (And superhuman, in his strength) than in the original.

I'll only give this a 5/10. I reccomend you watch the original first, so you have greater appreciation for how faithful a reimagining it is, and so you can catch the in-jokes. But for the love of your God, please, under no circumstances should you watch any of the sequels.