Halloween

Let’s all give Mr. Rob Zombie a round of applause. His re-imagined remake turned out much better than that other high-profile, wild-haired, classic-tinkering director’s attempt (come on, one ape age to another? boo). Halloween is not a remake really. Only about half the movie coincides with the original. The first half is new.

We begin the movie with Michael Myers at age 10, and his issues come to light immediately. The dude kills his rat. Ok, moving on. He is highly attached to this clown mask, which he wears everywhere (but it is Halloween, after all). Age 10 Michael Myers has a very bad day and decides to take it out on his family. Enter the famous mask.

This is how we segue into old Halloween territory. Michael is sent to an institution where he grows up making mask after mask after mask that he hangs on his walls. When he is given the opportunity to escape, well, he takes it.

This movie isn’t really scary, but if you’re familiar at all with Rob Zombie, it is very gory. It’s more about the different ways a person can be savagely mutilated and murdered than about fear. Personally, this isn’t a direction I think horror movies should go in (such as Saw, Hostel, etc), as I would much rather be scared than grossed out. It wasn’t bad- the first half was very interesting, but the second half faltered.