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: whack to the 10th power
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a corney movie, this was a waste of my time and boaring just a different remake on the original but this shows little michel seeing a pshychiatrist, and killing more then just his sister. Rob zombie is a bad director for this crappy movie, this was garbage.Movie Review: Bad Remake... Here's Why
Summary: 1 Stars
1. It shows Micheal Myers' face too much. This makes us familar with him, which makes him less scary. The reason that Micheal Myers was known as "The Shape" in the original is because that's what he was. A Shape that was simply pure evil. In the remake, Micheal Myers could be any redneck who went psychotic.
2. You side with the serial killer. I not only find this annoying, but I also find it sick. When you watch a horror movie, you should side with the main character and hope they live. In the new Halloween, we grow up with Myers and we watch him. We then hope that he kills more people, simply because we want him to.
3. The movie timeline is flawed. If this movie was supposed to take place in 1978, which it obviously is, then there would be no cell phones. However, there are several cases when a character uses a cell phone!
Trust me. Just watch the original.
Movie Review: Not a remake but a biopic. Which version to buy (Theatrical does have widescreen). Alike another horror concept.
Summary: 5 Stars
Ridley Scott's American Gangster about real life bad guy and drug lord, Frank Lucas, in American Gangster receives two Oscar noms. Forrest Whitaker won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Who says you can't do a biopic film of a fictional character? Rob Zombie does just that in this biography, not remake, of horror icon Michael Myers. I would also guess that more Americans have probably heard of the fictional, Michael Myers, than Amin, or Lucas.
Zombie's Halloween goes into detail of Michael as a child, while there is still something of a child left, and the hell on earth that exists in many households. Michael Myers will become the manifestation of evil in society. Halloween was reminiscent of David Cronenberg's The Brood and how the mother's anger physically manifested itself as she spawned deformed children to seek out what angered her. Unlike the mother in The Brood Michael doesn't lash out at society but becomes the evil in society and eventually will no longer be human. True evil cannot be stopped with a gun or a knife and neither can Michael Myers.
My point is Zombie's film can be looked at as poetic and a message for non violence (you think I'm crazy). Michael Myers is a metaphor for the evil in our society, specifically the evil that hides in the suburbs behind closed doors. Myers uses a mask to hide this evil as suburbs could mask this with white picket fence as a happy front. If you can't use violence to stop this evil as we do in our society then you have to go to the roots, the family and family values. Similarly the book Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time which uses education to fight terror where it starts and not bombs.
There are two moments in the film where, Michael Myers, the boy fights that evil. The first, after Michael has murdered his family and is locked away in an institution he has an emotional breakdown with Dr. Loomis at Christmas time. Michael for an instant realizes the situation and is terrified this reminded me of Regan in The Exorcist (25th Anniversary Special Edition) as the demon left her. Flash to the next scene and Michael is gone and the evil has taken him. The second moment after Michael has kidnapped Laurie he once again becomes human for a moment, drops his knife, and shows his face to his sister, once Laurie stabs him and he puts the mask back on Michael is now dead and there is only evil.
Zombie has a stellar cast of horror veterans that there are too many to list. Zombie does not use this as a gimmick or to wink at horror fans the film is taken seriously from beginning to end and their are solid performances all around. Rob Zombie seems to get better with each film as does his wife Sheri Moon Zombie who gave a solid performance as Michael's mother. The photograph that is shown at the end was very effective and tragic.
DVD FEATURES
On Amazon it says the theatrical version is presented in Full Screen only but Disc I contains both Full Screen and Wide Screen versions. - Feature commentary by Writer/Director Rob Zombie as well.
Disc II
Alternate Ending - Deleted Scenes with optional Directory's commentary - Bloopers- The Many Masks of Michael Myers - Re Imagining Halloween - Meet the cast - Casting Sessions - Laurie Strode Scree Test - Theatrical Trailer.
I have seen both the unrated and theatrical versions and theatrical version is the one to go with by a mile. The unrated just throws in to many over the top incidents that really aren't needed.
Movie Review: Who Let Rob Zombie Write This?!
Summary: 2 Stars
What happens when you give a horror fanatic like Rob Zombie the liberty to do as he wishes on a horror franchise like John Carpenter's "Halloween"? Unfortunately you get bored to death with one cliche ridden scene after another. What the hell happened? I didn't think his first two films were bad, not great, but not awful either. I figured the major problem here is the same deal you'll get from Tarantino or Rodriguez, they're film enthusiasts. They're better skilled at creating tributes to the films they love than adding any original ideas of their own. That being said the film isn't a complete remake. If you've seen the original "Halloween" you'll remember that it starts with Michael breaking out of the asylum. In the new revamp version Zombie, in the first act, gives us a glimpse of what Michael was like as a child and what led him to be locked away in an asylum in the first place. Oddly enough I think the first act (all the scenes that eventually lead into his killing spree) is excellent. I would have rather have seen a film about a child growing up into the killer instead of just a simple explanation for the sake of exposition. Imagine what a riskier and much more controversial film that would have been! And what a way to reawaken the franchise which was originally hit or miss anyhow. Regardless, once Michael escapes the asylum we are treated to simple slasher film clich?s with no rhyme or reason for half the killings. Were any of these people in his way in the first place? How does he know to find his sister? Basically he just goes on a killing spree for the sake of a killing spree and several times I found myself yawning and losing interest. Forget about tension because without that rhyme and reason you get none. I wanted to enjoy this film but it was a total let down.
Credit to Rob Zombie for having the original Misfits "Halloween" play in the background.
Movie Review: josh's review for halloween
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie Halloween is about a little boy that's about 12 and he grows up in a family that yells a lot and his mom is a stripper, so people always make fun of him. He ends up having to go to a mental facility because he killed his older sister, her boyfriend, and his stepfather. He didn't kill his mom or baby sister. He ends up having to stay in the mental facility for a long time but he escapes as an older, bigger man and goes on a killing spree looking for his sister.
I think this movie is awesome because of all the action, gore, and violence. I recommend the movie to whoever likes horror movies.