2008 Woodie Awards
1978 'Halloween' remade
CHRIS CORRADO
Issue date: 9/12/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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If anyone can do justice to "Halloween," Rob Zombie can and did. The suspenseful music, white mask and the terror of Michael Myers are back with a vengeance.
Zombie's beginning approach is different than John Carpenter's original version with more explanation on why a young Myers decided to kill his older sister and how he broke out of Smith's Grove Sanitarium after more than a decade of treatment.
It appears as if other critics do not agree with Zombie's new approach in tackling this film, however.
According to Peter Sciretta, of slashfilm.com, the remake goes too far in telling how Myers' became who he was. Sciretta said that this takes away the mystery behind Myers and that the remake stands in the shadow of the original.
Zombie's version is considered to be pointless and only re-filming the same plot, according to Eric D. Snider, hollywoodbitchslap.com.
Halloween made $30.6 million in its opening weekend according to the Los Angeles Times.
Daeg Faerch plays the young Myers well, imitating a similar blank stare like the young Myers from 1978. Tyler Mane (Sabertooth: "X-Men") plays the disturbed, brutal killer who returns to Haddonfield, Ill. to continue his chaos.
Malcolm McDowell (Alex: "A Clockwork Orange") plays Dr. Sam Loomis. He tries to help Myers when he is first brought into the sanitarium but then realizes that Myers is too far gone to be helped.
When Myers decides to leave the sanitarium on his own terms, chains, guns and manpower will not keep him from escaping.
Myers returns to his old home, almost 20 years later, to maintain his Halloween tradition of murder and mayhem.
Upon returning to Haddonfield, with his chilling mask on his head and his trusty knife in hand, he hunts down his baby sister Laurie Strode played by Scout Taylor-Compton.
Strode's friends and parents will not be in for a treat either. Haddonfield police, Dr. Loomis and Strode will take their best shot, but will it be enough? Viewers can now find out.
"Devil's Rejects was suspenseful, so I want to see Rob Zombie's new Halloween movie," Josh Walker, sophomore political science major, said.
Broken bones, cut throats and smashed heads can all be expected from this nail-biting remake of the horror icon that changed Oct. 31 forever.
Zombie's beginning approach is different than John Carpenter's original version with more explanation on why a young Myers decided to kill his older sister and how he broke out of Smith's Grove Sanitarium after more than a decade of treatment.
It appears as if other critics do not agree with Zombie's new approach in tackling this film, however.
According to Peter Sciretta, of slashfilm.com, the remake goes too far in telling how Myers' became who he was. Sciretta said that this takes away the mystery behind Myers and that the remake stands in the shadow of the original.
Zombie's version is considered to be pointless and only re-filming the same plot, according to Eric D. Snider, hollywoodbitchslap.com.
Halloween made $30.6 million in its opening weekend according to the Los Angeles Times.
Daeg Faerch plays the young Myers well, imitating a similar blank stare like the young Myers from 1978. Tyler Mane (Sabertooth: "X-Men") plays the disturbed, brutal killer who returns to Haddonfield, Ill. to continue his chaos.
Malcolm McDowell (Alex: "A Clockwork Orange") plays Dr. Sam Loomis. He tries to help Myers when he is first brought into the sanitarium but then realizes that Myers is too far gone to be helped.
When Myers decides to leave the sanitarium on his own terms, chains, guns and manpower will not keep him from escaping.
Myers returns to his old home, almost 20 years later, to maintain his Halloween tradition of murder and mayhem.
Upon returning to Haddonfield, with his chilling mask on his head and his trusty knife in hand, he hunts down his baby sister Laurie Strode played by Scout Taylor-Compton.
Strode's friends and parents will not be in for a treat either. Haddonfield police, Dr. Loomis and Strode will take their best shot, but will it be enough? Viewers can now find out.
"Devil's Rejects was suspenseful, so I want to see Rob Zombie's new Halloween movie," Josh Walker, sophomore political science major, said.
Broken bones, cut throats and smashed heads can all be expected from this nail-biting remake of the horror icon that changed Oct. 31 forever.
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