Halloween (2007)
This Halloween remake by none other than Rob Zombie may well be one of the best slasher movies ever made. Not content to just make the movie all blood and guts, Zombie tries to get inside the mind of Michael Myers and explain why the little boy wearing the clown mask at the beginning of the movie turns out to be a psychopathic killer. That isn’t to say, though, there is a shortage of the red stuff.
The killings are brutal and the gore doesn’t disappoint. The age old theory that having sex or using drugs as a teenager is bound to get you killed is proved time and again, but Halloween is more than a slasher flick under Zombie’s helm. It has an actual story.
Quick Review: Like House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, Zombie has once again shown with his retelling of Halloween that he knows horror and can make it more than what the viewer has come to expect. Great movie.
Love the movie? Buy the DVD:
Halloween – Unrated Director’s Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Blu-Ray
Halloween (2-Disc Unrated Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray]
Like the remake? Check out the original on DVD:
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August 1st, 2009 at 5:28 am
Nevertheless somehow, all the humor and intimacy has been drained from movies.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:46 am
I don’t know about that. There are some good ones out there. For instance, Shaun of the Dead and Planet Terror. Both of those have a lot of humor, and Shaun of the Dead has a pretty sweet relationship between both Shaun and his girlfriend and Shaun and his best friend. It takes a special kind of friendship to withstand one of the friends becoming a zombie. Apologies if you haven’t seen it yet.