Halloween 2...

IT's out tonight. I'm going later, but how many will actually see it?

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Halloween
Halloween 4
Halloween 5

after watching those, there's no the remake of halloween 2 could possibly live up to them. Halloween, 2, 4, and 5 lived on suspense and building up tension. The remakes just follow the recent fascination to gore.

H5 got a bit ridiculous, but I still enjoy it.

You're right, though, this movie is going to suck.

watching it last night, I realized how iconic the end is. Its easily as good as the ending to Halloween.

Loomis shouting "NOOO! NOOO! NOOOO! NOOOO!" is such a great cinematic moment.

We love Rob Zombie. Devil's Rejects is in my top 5 list of movies. :D

I liked the first one.

Time to bust out my Netflix review of the first installment...

Halloween (2007)

Tinkering with a classic film is always risky. Not only is there a built in audience of devotees that long to see another sensibility brought to the project, there is the additional challenge of translating the essence of the original for a new audience that may be approaching the film's themes for the first time. Rob Zombie's reboot of Halloween, sadly, does not measure up in either department. The "origin of a madman" back story is pushed front and center, commanding the entire first half of the film. The problem is that nothing really new is presented here. Michael Myers seems to wake up on that fateful Halloween morning destined to go off the deep end without the benefit of warning signs and subtle sadistic behavior that germinates and roots in the psyche over the course of years. Sheri Moon Zombie as Mother Myers is a character so poorly written that the audience is expected to believe that her vocation as a stripper and her poor choice of bedmates (a caricature of Charles Manson that still comes off scarier than Michael) is enough to drive this ten year old to mass murder over the course of 12 hours. It all becomes such a muddled mess of mental health placebos that we are bored to tears before the doomed babysitters ever grace the screen. Once we get to grown-up Michael, so much time is wasted in the prologue we are treated to a feverish relay race through Haddonfield where Michael miraculously shows up to dispense of our characters with no explanation on how he ever gets from point A to point B. Not to mention how he would even know to go to the aforementioned locations in the first place. John Carpenter seemed acutely aware back in 1978 that a trick of light and shadow in the corner of the screen is much more terrifying than a blatant kill shot. As remakes go, I have seen worse offenses in the past but given the iconic status of John Carpenter's classic, I simply can not recommend this film beyond the realm of a fleeting curiosity piece.

Grade: D+