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Nation of Origin: USA

Ratings:
Kim: 5 out of 5
Joe: 5 out of 5
Justin: 5 out of 5

Notes:

In Rob Zombie’s re-telling of Halloween, Michael Myers is upgraded from the archetypal taciturn, masked psychopath to a brutal juggernaut (played by Tyler Mane) which Dr. Sam Loomis describes as a “perfect storm of external and internal factors gone horribly wrong.” The fact that he’s 6′5″ doesn’t hurt, either. This version of Halloween gets into the pathology and psychology of Michael Myers which makes for a more compelling interest in the character but the news that Myers is a victim of his childhood kind of flips the audience’s alignment in favor of the slasher. Since criminal psychology wasn’t national past-time in 1979, the updated Halloween expounds more on the origins of The Shape and how he became the pit of nothingness that he is purported to be. Also changed from the original is the escalated level of annoyingness portrayed by Laurie Strode and her friends and as a result you feel far less apathy for Myers’ victims– which tends to be a let down for me because it plays into the tone of the slasher rip-offs that followed the original film.

SPOILER: Any good remake fulfills the expectations of the original film and adds something extra. The final exchange concerning the boogeyman between Dr. Loomis and Laurie Strode is only the beginning of a much more grisly ending for Myers which really should have completely eliminated any hope of a sequel (Zombie didn’t want to make a sequel, but did Halloween 2 because the studio wanted to make it and he didn’t want anyone else to ruin his vision). I haven’t seen Halloween 2, but I don’t know how they are going to manage reversing the effects of a point-blank shot from a .357 slug to the face.