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Halloween
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.Details
Director: Rob Zombie
Writers: Rob Zombie (screenplay), John Carpenter, 1 more credit »
Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane |
Official Sites: HalloweenMovies.com: The Official site of Michael Myers | Official site |
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 31 August 2007 (USA) |
Storyline
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?User Reviews
I'm not a big fan of
the recent trend of remaking all the classic horror films of the '70s
and '80s, but I decided to go see the new "Halloween" anyway, if for no
other reason than I'd never seen any of the original films in a theater.
(That, and I figured they couldn't do much worse than the god-awful
"Halloween: Resurrection", the most recent entry before this remake.)
IMHO the original "Halloween" is one of the greatest horror films ever,
and certainly the best "slasher" movie (unless you count Hitchcock's
"Psycho", but that's another topic.) I really expected to be let down,
even though I haven't seen any of Rob Zombie's other movies.
For the first five minutes, I thought, "Great, they took this classic American slasher flick and turned it into a white trash festival." But once Michael started talking (which he never does in the original film) something clicked, and I was hooked. The new film takes the Michael Meyers "mythos" (if you will) and fleshes it out, giving the audience a frightening insight to the true horror that exists all around us before eviscerating us with the shocks and gore we really paid to see.
The movie loses some of its momentum when it jumps to the present day, when too often it reverts back to simply restaging some of the trend-setting scenes from its predecessor - Laurie staring out the window at school and seeing the weirdo in the cove
For the first five minutes, I thought, "Great, they took this classic American slasher flick and turned it into a white trash festival." But once Michael started talking (which he never does in the original film) something clicked, and I was hooked. The new film takes the Michael Meyers "mythos" (if you will) and fleshes it out, giving the audience a frightening insight to the true horror that exists all around us before eviscerating us with the shocks and gore we really paid to see.
The movie loses some of its momentum when it jumps to the present day, when too often it reverts back to simply restaging some of the trend-setting scenes from its predecessor - Laurie staring out the window at school and seeing the weirdo in the cove
