Comments on: Review: Halloween (2007)

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By: Sedai

Sedai — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:38:09 +0000

Wow. Funny how our tastes run parallel on many films, but diametrically opposed with others. well, not really opposed, as I also didn’t like this pile, but it seems I liked what you disliked, and vice-versa. Maybe it’s because I grew up watching the original when it was first released, but I thought this thing was pretty decent up until the point that Laurie Strode was introduced, because it offered up and genuinely different angle, however poor it might have been. Then it went all to hell. Zombie’s attempt to cram the events of the original film into the final reel of this thing failed completely.

The original film at least attempted to develop Laurie and her friends a little, while in this film, it just seemed like Zombie was trying to make sure he got all the memorable events in, no matter how forced or awkward it came out. He even filmed it differently than the first half, and it looked terrible, while the first half was only “pretty bad” as far as blocking etc.

And dammit, when is this clown going to get a decent DP? I hate his set-ups. Did he shoot this turd?

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:15:22 +0000

I agree with you Peter. The bad thing about Halloween is that it IS a Halloween, so you go into the movie expecting something of epic (at least I did) proportions, and you instead get a good slasher, not a great movie in general.

Tyler Mane did a great job as Michael, he’s so freaking huge that it took people in the crowd by surprise as he stood up. I heard a LOT of “damn!”’s as he was walking around. I kinda liked Michael Myers as a skinny (if tall) fellow, because it emphasizes that Michael is not a man behind a mask, he’s a force of nature, but Tyler plays a good Myers, even though Rob Zombie overkilled the fact that Myers would look at the people he killed. God, I was so tired of watching him tilt his head after the 5th kill!

but it doesn’t cover the fact that Zombie took the story of evil in a normal all american family and turned it into a devil’s rejects family.
The beginning kills the fact that he actually turned Halloween into a decent movie, rather than take a cop out like The Omen and copy it word for word, to the point where you’re bored to tears by the time it’s over.

I have to admit that I enjoyed it, but I was glad it ended the way it did, I don’t want to see Halloween…2? whatever it’d be, played out like that.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:14:06 +0000

Yeah, about Hatchet, the movie everyone in California supposedly has their eyes on. I live in the Northern VA/DC area (in the top 10 markets, I believe) and the closest theater it is playing is over 70 miles away in Baltimore of all places.

If I have to make that drive and risk getting stabbed with a box cutter in that God forsaken city just for a slasher movie, it best be even better than everyone is saying it is. I’m all about supporting Indie horror trying to break into the mainstream, but that scenario is asking a bit much.

By: John

John — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:32:06 +0000

Horror’s Not Dead, but I think perhaps slasher films are.

(Yeah, yeah, Hatchet’s gonna save the sub-genre. Whatever.)