A young boy, Michael Myers, has a bad homelife, an abusive father and is a target of the bigger bullies at school. One day Michael snaps, and people pay for what they've done to him. Decades later, now a large man, Michael again snaps and escapes the mental institution he's been rotting in to return to Haddonfield, his hometown, on Halloween night.
Director Rob Zombie takes what I think is an interesting "stab" at remaking a classic by creating a whole new backstory the original never did. It's a large part of the movie here and it's a good 45 minutes into the film before it starts becoming a real remake of the first one. At that point, some scenes really pay tribute to the original and others go their own way, with a twist the original never hinted at.
It's a pretty bleak, dark version that Zombie tells here, with a whole lot of blood and graphic violence and a tone that never really let it's up.
I keep reading in reviews how it doesn't stand up to the original and blah blah blah... but judged on it's own merits I think this is a really solid horror film. Sure, it doesn't stand up the the original, but what does? Not many films at all. I didn't go into this thinking it was competing against it's namesake, I went in comparing it to other recent movies and recent horror films and I think it more than holds it's own.
Critics are going to hate this; it's mean, brutal and ugly. I like that. Pull no punches Rob. It's not a perfect horror movie, but I think it's pretty damn good.
8/10
Director Rob Zombie takes what I think is an interesting "stab" at remaking a classic by creating a whole new backstory the original never did. It's a large part of the movie here and it's a good 45 minutes into the film before it starts becoming a real remake of the first one. At that point, some scenes really pay tribute to the original and others go their own way, with a twist the original never hinted at.
It's a pretty bleak, dark version that Zombie tells here, with a whole lot of blood and graphic violence and a tone that never really let it's up.
I keep reading in reviews how it doesn't stand up to the original and blah blah blah... but judged on it's own merits I think this is a really solid horror film. Sure, it doesn't stand up the the original, but what does? Not many films at all. I didn't go into this thinking it was competing against it's namesake, I went in comparing it to other recent movies and recent horror films and I think it more than holds it's own.
Critics are going to hate this; it's mean, brutal and ugly. I like that. Pull no punches Rob. It's not a perfect horror movie, but I think it's pretty damn good.
8/10
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