Halloween (DVD)

it sooo much better than the original. i really was not looking forword to watching this but its unmissable......& its NOT got jamie lee curtis in it, i dislike nothing about this movie its one of the best new horrors?! out there, miss this movie @ your peril.............happy halloween!

At first I thought 'How can Halloween be done again?!' Then saw it was Directed by Rob Zombie and knew it was definitely worth a peek. So I saw it at the cinema and it blew me away with tension and fear all the way through. It's a totally new take on the classic, as if the others hadn't even been made. One of my 'have to haves'

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I really liked this film because it told the story from the start.
It also stuck to the origional film.
great film

This is by far the best Halloween film so far,all i will say is you wont be disappointed,the orginal Halloween was excellent,even halloween 2 was great then it started to go down hill after that with the introduce of the silver shamrock masks in halloween part 3,but you must see this,there is plenty of blood and gore in this film which as i said before the best yet,this is Michael Myers at his killing best.

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 clichéd thumbnail character sketch. 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, Overall a Good film, pity it was a copy.

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A must for all Rob Zombie fans and Halloween alike.
Keeps a real identity to the original with a lot
of Zombie magic.

From acclaimed musician and filmmaker, Rob Zombie ("The Devil's Rejects," "House of 1000 Corpses") comes an entirely new take on the highly successful and terrifying Halloween legacy that began in 1978. While revealing a new chapter in the established Michael Myers saga, the film will surprise both classic and modern horror fans. 4****

i wasn't sure whetheri would like this or not as i have not been too fussed on rob zombies other flicks but i was really surprised at how good this film was.
zombies portrayal of michaels early life, although a little bit in your face, was well executed and gave michaels character alot more depth than ever before. having been a fan of the halloween movies for years it was nice to fill in the blanks that had previuosly not been filled.
It was also good to see that zombie, in the second half of the film, did't butcher the original story but followed the storyline quite clossely obviously with his own style added.
overall a good addition to the halloween family and well worth getting for the collection.

In general, sequels and remakes are not a good idea. More often that not, they are just pointless continuations of something that did not need tampered with to begin with and should be forgotten about completely. However, on rare occasions, a sequel or remake can be just as good as the original, if not better.

A franchise like the juggernaut that is Halloween could do with a good sequel, given that there have been seven so far and most of them have been awful. Rob Zombie's remake - or reimagining as he prefers to call it - is excellent.

The first thirty minutes of the film do something that John Carpenter's original film neglected to do. They tell Michael's story. Rather than beginning with the murder of his sister, Zombie's Halloween shows what Michael's life is like. He is bullied at school by older boys, lives with his Mother - played by Rob Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, who also starred in House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects - who is a stripper - something which Michael is bullied for - as well as his horrible sister and his Mother's abusive boyfriend and his baby sister.

After he gets into a fight with two other boys at his school, it is discovered that he has been killing animals. A child psychologist, Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) is called in to help. However, it is too late, as Michael leaves the school and gets a bloody revenge on one of the bullies who attacked him.

This in turn leads to the fateful Halloween night where Michael loses his mind and goes on a killing spree. Whereas in the original, he only murdered his sister, this time he goes all out. He kills her, her boyfriend and his Mother's boyfriend. The violence is incredibly brutal which again contrasts the original as it was relatively free of any on-screen violence and instead left everything to your imagination.

When it comes to leaving things to your imagination though, Zombie is not the right man to ask. The film is filled with hideous gore - which will satisfy any gorehound - and a lot of nudity. The cast is made up of Zombie's regulars as well as some Halloween series alumni, the most notable of these being Danielle Harris, who played Michael's niece in the fourth and fifth installments of the franchise.

Michael's imprisonment and subsequent bouts of insanity and violence play out until a vicious attack on a nurse leads his Mother to make a terrible choice. Years later, as in the original, he escapes from the mental hospital which has become his home and goes out in search of his sister, the baby girl he has not seen since the night he murdered his family.

The story plays out pretty much as it did in the original with a few changes - there is a much bigger body count and some twists and turns in the story which were not present in the original, as well as a brutal climax - and is thrilling to watch. While there are fewer scares than in the original, Zombie seems to go for the thrills instead, with extended chase sequences and inventive editing.

If you are a fan of the Halloween franchise, then you'll love this as will any Rob Zombie fan. While some of the film may be too strange for some people's - Zombie's films tend to be less mainstream than others - tastes, it is still a great horror film and he should be commended for his treatment of a remake which could have gone dramatically wrong.