Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great movie, I really loved how they focused on Michael from childhood up. If your a fan of horror/blood and guts then I highly recommend buying this movie. It is well worth $13 at Wally World.Movie Review: Getting In Depth With Michael...
Summary: 3 Stars
I never really liked any of the movies in the halloween series because I just never understood what was so menacing about michael. This film gives a much closer look into what forms michael and how almost completely inhuman he becomes. I think it is much better made a lot of people give it credit just because they don't like Zombie. This film was very well done and actually makes michael more then just a stalker in a mask.Movie Review: Michael Myers was a member of Slipknot?
Summary: 1 Stars
Wait. Young children exposed to awful parents and mean schoolmates and promiscuous siblings become serial killing slashers?
Where is Dee Snyder? Because he also is not gonna take it.
Movie Review: A BLOODY GOOD FILM !!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Since I have only seen the first original John Carpenter's Halloween and have avoided the 34 sequels, I can only compare this latest Rob Zombie effort to the first movie. I must say even though I am not a big fan of screamy slasher movies, I was pleasantly surprised and entertained by this film. We are able to witness the early years of Myers as he grows into an introverted and troubled young man with latent violent tendencies. At one point we actually feel sorry for the kid, but that soon wears off.
The cinematography and directing were excellent and in some cases very reminiscent of the original. This film was almost claustrophobic in parts as it smothers us with ominous feelings of impending doom and rising levels of tension in almost scene without overdoing it. Rob Zombie also kept the original Halloween theme as well as sneaking in a few bars of "Don't fear the reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. All of the cast were believable in their roles as the lucky and unlucky living and dying in the twisted reality of Michael Myers.
Seeing Sid Haig once again and Danny Trejo in small straight roles was funny. They were almost unrecognizable compared to previous characters they have played. My fellow fans of Sheri Moon Zombie won't be disappointed. Her role as Michael's mother when he was younger allowed her to do more speaking, acting, and show she really does have talent. Working as a stripper/hooker in a sleazy strip joint we also see her talents as a dancer. But still under many difficult circumstances she was a good mother to Michael and her other two children.
The movie concentrates in the beginning on Michaels' early life giving us glimpses at his damaged and twisted reality. We are able to view it from the outside but we never feel or see what it is that has driven him insane at a young age. Constantly wearing masks and butchering the family pet were pretty good signs of personality problems, but were ignored or dismissed by those around him. A small view of the dysfunctional life at home and problems at school shows us an unhappy youth who turns to more extreme violence as the only answer to his conflicts in life. Before we know it, he has committed several murders and is incarcerated in a mental institution from where he escapes 20 years later to wreak havoc on his old home town while searching for his younger sister. No longer four feet high and weighing 90 pounds, Michael is now a monster with a body to match.
I enjoy Rob Zombie's work as a film maker and director, especially since The Devil's Rejects. I am looking forward to his next film project whatever it may be. I am guessing it would be another horror flick with a sprinkle of violence that is up close and personal.
I give this film 4 out of 5 hard and slicing stabs to the neck with a large, bloody, butcher knife.
Movie Review: Zombie Hand Wins
Summary: 4 Stars
As I have said in other reviews, the unrated versions of films on DVD have become the defacto Gold Standard.
I saw this film in theatre and I was wowed by the power and impact of film, even though the supernatural element seemed a little drained from the film.For someone like Rob Zombie, the surreal seems to reign supreme in his art, but that was in what I saw in the Booklet art of HELLBILLY DELUXE, however, in film Rob seems to want to go for the "real".
The First part of the film was, as I understand it, shot basically shot in sequence, so that by the time they got to Institution sequences, not only has the Young actor playing Michael actually Grown, but Tyler Mane gets a chance to incorporate Young Michaels moves into his own styles.Probably the most shocking scenes and therefore the best items to watch and pick apart, take place at the Institution, the Truck Stop ( Ken Foree is just so Cool in a scene he makes so his own, even though you have two huge guys obviously trying to outdo each other, and this is more
so when you realise that the side of the stall they damage is NOT the stunt stall, its the real metal), and the element I find most surprising is that whilst Young Michael ( the actor) needs a stunt double, so does [ they said] the Huge Tyler Mane;Tyler Objected to the Double on one point, and the double for "Young Michael" is a girl... my question is, before hearing the commentary or the features, can you pick them ?
Anyways, This Unrated is a very well deserved edition. Expect more... you might even pick up some of the tricks on how Michael Hides in a shot, when he is 6'9 and hard to miss.
DVD: The Bonus Features. Standout features on this are the deleted scenes or the Bloopers where Malcolm McDowell and Brad Douriff do a brilliant job at riffing off each other ( if only these two had been contracted to do a Commentary track with cast).The Features are worth it indeed. The Commentary however, is technically informative, but dry and unentertaining as you could have it. If they are going to have a film school class track, they could at least have an entertaining commentary track. Rob's "Commentary as Director" track has its purpose, but it needed a track for more entertaining elements.