I got a chance to check out the Rob Zombie directed Halloween remake a few days early and seized the opportunity to add it to my list of reviews. Rob Zombie was on a rouch road by choosing to remake one of the uncontested kings of horror movies and I'm surprised both by the movie and my willingness to admit that it wasn't that bad. I was expecting a catastrophe. By humanizing Michael Meyers you take something away from the menace and while Zombie did try to make him someone we can relate to by adding this broken home, child abuse back story, the character recovers in the second half and becomes the killing machine that we have all come to know quite well.
Unfortunately, the second half of the movie, where Meyers escapes and stalks Laurie Strode while Loomis hunts him is almost the movie that Carpenter made verbatim. Read the full review.
http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2007/08/29/rob-zombie-halloween-movie-review/