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: New take on a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone who has seen the original Halloween and the sub standard fodder that followed knows that this is possibly one of the best horror flicks made at the time. To step up and remake it takes someone with a passion for the original and the will to do it justice by making a film that pays homage and builds on it.
Zob Zombie stepped up to the challenge and has come out of it with an excellent version.
Using a well cast younger Michael Myers we see the degrading mental state of a child into the monster that was Michael Myers, but also right upto the end when we see him capture his sister there's a touching element to the love of a brother for that of his baby sister. There were so many extra segments generated into this new version that simply did it so much more justice, and in my view eclipsed the original.
The down side for me, and this is personal, I felt that Malcolm Macdowell was very poorly cast, he just wasn't up to the role originally filled by Donald Pleasance. He himself always appears to act with a complete contempt for the role, and never really makes you believe in him, okay maybe just my opinion a very small blip in an excellent film that fills the gaps the original left behind.
Lets just hope this is where Rob Zombie leaves it and doesn't feel the need to remake part two.....
Movie Review: A great re-imagining
Summary: 5 Stars
Rob Zombie did a great job on Halloween. He made it his own movie. I had doubts when I first heard about this about a year ago. But as previews and news started popping up, I knew a masterpiece was soon to be born.
The best thing about Zombie's version is the fact that Michael has a backstory. We get to see Michael's life as a kid and his life in the sanitarium. Rob Zombie really made it feel so realistic and so fascinating.
Another great thing is that Michael isn't some in-destructable superhuman. He can actually die. In the original, and also many of the sequels, no matter what people do to him, he will not die. I think Rob Zombie's is the more realistic of the series.
So all the people who hate Rob Zombie's Halloween, I have one question.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU???
I saw an advanced screening of an amazing movie and definitely enjoyed it.
Rob Zombie's Halloween has great action and scares. You'll have a hell of a time!
Acting: A
Story: A+
visuals: A+
Overall: A+
Movie Review: Rob Zombie's boring reimagining.
Summary: 1 Stars
Rob Zombie's "reimagining" of one of the great horror classics Halloween is one of the most tedious movies I have ever seen. Not suspenceful. Not scary. Just BORING. I almost couldn't sit through it. The only reason I continued to even watch was because about halfway through(when Michael escapes) it feels like a second film has started. After a while I realized this second part was just as boring as the begining. The film has no pacing, just a bunch of jumbled scenes. Even the violence is boring. The way it is edited left me with no discomfort(what I feel it should do.) I had some hopes for this film and was completely disappointed. The only positive is that the new mask is cool.
Movie Review: Michael, noooooo!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
The Good Things
*Strong, vivid photography and style.
*Good acting. Great portrayal of Michael Meyers; this film fully explores his genesis, and it is very brutal and gripping. Malcom McDowell is interesting as the psychiatrist.
*Excellent sound and music design.
*Lots of bloody killings. Horror fans should be satisfied.
The Bad Things
*Many of the girls in the film scream incessantly and act stupidly. Sometimes, you want to yell at the screen "What are you doing? Run!!" Could also be a good thing, because it's suspenseful.
*None of the victims show as much strength as Jamie Lee Curis did in the original version. The one surviving character shows this only in the very very last second.
*There is stronger brutality, more swearing, more sex, and more blood. Fans of the older, classier version may not like this.
I really hated the original "Holloween," so I believe this is a superior version. Its style is not only modernized, but also downright scary and unsettling. I am particuarly impressed by its portrayal of Michael Meyers; there is much more character depth to him, and they go into his back story much more deeply. Instead of being an inhumane, unkillable, supernatural entity, he is a human monster, and that is perhaps much more frightening (and maybe more realistic). There is more bad content (sex, violence, swearing), but I do not think it is entirely overwhelming. Horror fans everywhere should at least look at this rendition, for it is quite intense.
Movie Review: Fantastic remake of a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wild and crazy remake of a great film Rob Zombie's Halloween Is a great movie on it's own merits. I liked Malcom Mcdowell as Dr. Loomis he was very good, and Michael Myers being almost seven feet tall was a surprise, the gore was modest and the scares few, but I this this is a masterpiece of horror filmmaking and Zombie deserves his time in the spotlight, and when was it the last time a Halloween film gross 70 million bucks. Please you guys out there don't hate all of robs movies have been good so far so give the man a break, rememmber we can do no better, thats why thats who he is, and thats why we are who we are.