I was admittedly quite satisfied with Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” (I saw the director’s cut) remake a few years ago. It wasn’t as good as the original but Zombie managed to put together a solid re-imagining of Carpenter’s horror classic while adding some nice (if flawed) additions to its mythos. I am a bit put off with the idea of a sequel of a remake, but I decided to give it a chance. Well, I haven’t seen the theatrical cut but I have been informed … more
I don’t even know where to start…… First and foremost I am going to put this out there; I do not care for Rob Zombie. I never really cared for his music, not to say it is bad it just doesn’t do anything for me. So when I first heard he was going into the realm of cinema I wasn’t too excited about it. I totally detested “House of a 1000 Corpses”, awful. My friend suggested to me to watch his version of “Halloween&rdquo … more
Surely purists of the original Halloween will undoubtedly keep the flame burning by trashing Zombie's latest horror flick. Either that or they will just sit this one out to wait for the Redbox rental & Netflix. In my honest opinion, I'd much rather be stabbed to death by Michael Myers himself than to sit through another one of those inane sequels to the original Carpenter flick. In fact, I'm kinda disappointed that no one acknowledges let alone admit that … more
H2 is the follow up to the first film of the rebooted Halloween series. This time around Rob Zombie doesn't try to emulate the sequel of the original series, instead he creates a surrealistic dreamscape of a film that's totally unique in it's own way. The murder set pieces are very brutal, violent and hardcore. You wont see any PG-13 nonsense here. Just a straight forward horror film that goes right for the jugular. The film picks up right where the … more