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/
I'm going to be seeing this on Saturday night. I'm hoping for a Dawn of the Dead remake type of experience.
I thought that House of 1000 Corpses was bad and The Devil's Rejects was really good but I'm unsure as to whether Rob Zombie might have bit off more than he can cinematically chew with doing the Halloween remake as only his 3rd film.
I, personally, don't feel that the original Halloween is all that. Michael Meyers never did a thing for me, possibly because I saw all six then-existing Friday the 13th movies, AND Halloween 2, AND Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, and 3, AND bizillions of also-ran slasher movies, before I ever got around to seeing Halloween.
I also didn't care for House of 1000 Corpses but it made me think Rob Zombie had potential as a horror director. (He ought to try tackling a fantasy film.)
Based on your review, and the above factoids, I think I'll wait until somebody else rents or buys it to see this one.
Good review.
Overall, I was pretty happy with the remake. I went in figuring, "Well, it can't be any worse than say, Halloween 6."
But yeah, he did well.