Evil has a destiny.
The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
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- Graphic violence
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Bleak, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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- r96skon TMDB · Oct 20236/10
I'm unmoved by this <em>'Halloween'</em> remake. I guess that is of little surprise as I'm not someone who overly enjoys the 1978 original, I do like it but it is nought special to me personally. All in all, based on reading back my review of that aforementioned flick and based on my thoughts whilst watching, this is a weaker film in every way. The only true positive I have is the Michael Myers theme, which is just a carry-over from the 1970s release - as ace as it is to hear it again, I would've preferred if they went without it... it kinda feels like they forced themselves to find spots to use it for the sake of using it. This production missed a Jamie Lee Curtis-esque performance, no-one stands out in that regard - Scout Taylor-Compton tries, but to no avail. I never found Michael Myers himself all that scary or uncomforting in the original and that is again the case here, even to a further degree in all honesty. Myers just feels so brute-force all the time that there is no intrigue or creepiness about him here in my opinion. Malcolm McDowell didn't do anything for me as Loomis either, though it's cool to see Brad Dourif appear. The opening 50 minutes and the closing 50 minutes
Read the whole review on TMDB - GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 20231/10
Well it has Malcolm McDowell, and he delivers in the master of accents kind of way. But....1 star for being a reboot, out of principal, especially a reboot of a slasher film that, well, I always thought the deal with those was to keep adding and adding until you have to look up the Roman Numerals in Encyclopedias to make sure you're numbering them right. "Halloween MCMLXXVIII: This Time it's Easter," You know, that sort of thing. But we will add one for Malcolm McDowell just because, yeah, he delivers. So two stars: ** And then it seems like Zombies idea was to show a lot of nudity and especially a lot of naked women getting killed by a horrible male monster after committing the sin of fornication. So three stars: *** And that is because he MIGHT--with a really big stretch on that--have been trying to do a satire thing of the slasher genre with all the naked murdered women. But...he could have also been going for mainstream snuff porn. I'm honestly not sure which way to go on this one...so We are back to two stars: ** Just because it really might not have been an attempt at satire and I sort of want to be sure. And we can't add any more because well... It was already made and when
Read the whole review on TMDB - Dark Jedion TMDB · Mar 20187/10
The critics are wrong…again. Well, at least as far as I am concerned. This remake is not bad at all. A lot of people are comparing it with the original which is understandable. A lot of people says that it is crap compared to the original which is not understandable. At least not by me. This is one of the movies where I have seen the original and it was even one of my favorites at the time. I think this remake holds up quite well. At first I was a bit worried that it was said to be a prequel. At least partly. However it is not really what I would call a prequel. It has a bit of extended background in the first quarter or so but that is not really what I would call a prequel. I think the movie was pretty much what I expected or perhaps I should say what I hoped for. It is a slasher-movie of course but it resists the temptation to go all overboard. Nowadays you do not really get scared or even shocked by these kinds of movies so I was not really expecting to be. I was just enjoying Michael’s rampage through the town. It is of course a bit scary in itself that you are watching a madman going on a killing spree through a small town and enjoying it but hey, it is all fake! One problem w
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Cast
- Scout Taylor-ComptonLaurie Strode
- Malcolm McDowellDr. Samuel Loomis
- Tyler ManeMichael Myers
- Brad DourifSheriff Lee Brackett
- Sheri Moon ZombieDeborah Myers
- Daeg FaerchMichael Myers, Age 10
- William ForsytheRonnie White
- Richard LynchPrincipal Chambers
- Udo KierMorgan Walker
- Clint HowardDoctor Koplenson
Crew
- Rob ZombieDirector
- Rob ZombieScreenplay
- Phil ParmetDirector of Photography
- Tyler BatesOriginal Music Composer
- Glenn GarlandEditor
- Malek AkkadProducer
- Rob ZombieProducer
- Andy GouldProducer
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