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Halloween (2007 movie)

Remake of the slasher classic movie directed by Rob Zombie

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A terrible and boring remake of the original horror machine...

  • Dec 30, 2009
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I'm a major fan of the original and I saw this one with medium hopes that Rob Zombie would give me soemthing worth seeing, but my first instinct about this movie sucking eggs was right. It was a bloody mess.



Halloween(or as I like to call it Suckloween.) was a disgrace to the franchise that practical invented the slasher genre. It was too dumb and far too bloody and messy to even try and comprehend the story of the psychotic Michael Myers( no not the Austin Powers guy.) But what it did have, and this is the only good thing, is a pretty good spin on Michael's beginning's not much of it was revealed in the original so that was the only positive thing I found about the whole film. But this movie was a let down none the less.



Tyler Mane an ex- wrestler turned horror star plays the maniac Myer's well(seeing as he doesn't have to say anything.) but his mannerisms are just like the original Michael and he is the only saving grace in this film. Scout Taylor-Compton (who is allot prettier than Jamie Lee Curtis.) Has no real acting talents at all and is just there to scream her head off when needed. Malcolm McDowell(who was the only true good act in this.) does very well as Dr. Sam Loomis but is not as hell bent on killing Michael as he was in the originals, instead here they turned Loomis into a kind hearted soul(which was a mistake.) Being someone who's watched all the Halloween movies Loomis is nothing liek his 2007 counter part and that is where again Rob Zombie fails. But Malcolm McDowell does very well in this movie and he holds up nicely against terrible acts. But all in in all the rest of the cast was terrible.





Halloween(2007) Is nothing short of a brutal, mindless, laughably bad mock up of a horror film that tries, and fails to capture the essence or even style of the original. But I will give it this. It does try very hard to be scary but to no avail.All in all Halloween is a A-Bomb.

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October 21, 2010
I actually loved this remake, the original is a classic for sure though.
 
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review by . July 16, 2011
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** out of ****     I love John Carpenter's "Halloween". I watch it every year, on that titular holiday, and pretty much anytime else throughout those 365 days. Carpenter's film is the work of a visionary artist; frightening, suspenseful, and entertaining. It has one of the best soundtracks to ANY horror movie, one of the better horror villains out there, and some of the best directing I've seen in any horror film, and I've seen a lot.    So when I hear that …
review by . May 05, 2009
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As far as horror remakes go, I'm usually quick to write them as nothing more than just Hollywood's way of saying they have no other tricks up their sleeve & a remake is perhaps the best thing that could be done. Sadly, horror remakes rarely are as innovative nor as entertaining as the originals & most of them are financial flops at the box office. With the mere exception of perhaps a few, I could very well skip most of them altogether & not miss a beat honestly. In recent years, most …
review by . May 15, 2009
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It just seems that no one can make an original horror movie these days, something with new characters and a plot that is actually scary.  No, instead we are getting these rather bland remakes of great horror films like Halloween, Friday the 13th and now the upcoming reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street.  That, I am scared of because Freddy Kruger was my horror movie idol growing up.  Everyone liked Jason, I like Freddy. It just seems that no one wants to take the horror genre seriously …
review by . December 17, 2008
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Just as we were about to celebrate the 30th anniversary of John Carpenter-the-legend's 1978 classic, we were peek-a-booed by the Rob Zombie remake of Halloween.     I will be upfront before I move on, dear reader.The movie is a success as far as remakes go. However, it attempts to define the why of evil and this is where it fails.    Pure evil needs little to no definition in horror! The fact that it is simply evil is what makes it horrifying.    The …
review by . October 01, 2008
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The opening of the film is clever and deals with the events leading up to Michael's first murder. I was very happy with the back story of Michael Myers & how brutal his life was & you could almost see day by day how he was driven to kill almost his entire family.     Minor details that were simply Rob Zombie's way of putting his mark on the film include a white trash family that Michael allegedly comes from (even though in the original his mother and father seem to be pretty …
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Written, produced and directed by Rob Zombie, Halloween is the 2007 remake of the 1978 slasher classic of the same name by John Carpenter. It mainly takes place on a Halloween day and night at the otherwise casual Illinois town, Haddonfield. Starring, Malcolm McDowell (Dr. Sam Loomis), Scout Taylor-Compton (Laurie Strode) and Daeg Faerch (as young Michael Myers), the movie grossed 78.5 million dollars worldwide.
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Director: Rob Zombie
Genre: Horror
Release Date: August 31, 2007
MPAA Rating: R
Screen Writer: Rob Zombie
DVD Release Date: October 07, 2008
Runtime: 109 min.
Studio: Dimension Films
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