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So, when this movie was originally announced, there was… OUTRAGE! “How could they touch such a classic?! Hollywood is out of ideas! Fuck Hollywood!” were some of the things muttered. Yes, yes, the remakes keep coming, and more often than not, they tend to be quite mediocre.. Halloween also fails to live up to the original.
Now, if you don’t know the story, Halloween is about Michael Myers. A kid of pure evil who slaughtered his family, then got locked up in a mental asylum, until he eventually breaks out, and hunts down his baby sister. The thing that always set Myers apart from the other horror killers is the fact that he was simply evil. He didn’t really have a reason to kill, he just killed people. This is where the biggest problem with the remake comes in. It’s much easier to just explain that he’s evil as a kid, then show him as an adult. It’s much harder to show him as a kid, and portray him as truly evil. This is, of course, what Rob Zombie decided to do. Show Michael as a kid, show the family slaughter, and let us know he was an asshole of a kid. Sadly, he kind of fails at this, and almost makes Michael a sympathetic character.. ALMOST. His mother is a stripper(implied prostitute), his older sister is a slut who’s not too kind to him, and his mom’s boyfriend is a lazy asshole. So the people he kills as a child, while brutal, kinda deserve it in their own ways. So you go from his youth, into his adulthood, in this mixed state of mind. The evilness is better portrayed when he’s an adult, but by then the seeds of doubt have been sown.
Big problem number two. The movie is so full of f-bombs, you’ll want to rip the butcher’s knife from Mikey’s hands, and cut someone yourself. The cursing in this movie is akin to a 5th grader who just learned how to say fuck, so he now says it every 4 seconds to be cool. The dialog could have been so much better if it was toned down some.
On the plus side, the movie isn’t bad by itself. When you take away the complaint of the dialog, it’s a pretty solid slasher flick. The kills are very well done, but not TOO over the top. I didn’t ever think there was blood splashed around just for there to be blood, which was one of the biggest worries coming into the movie. The theme is used very well, Tyler Mane makes an insanely frightening adult Michael, and it does do a good job of being suspenseful(although some scenes are drawn out). The acting overall, is very solid, and Scout Taylor-Compton does a fine job replacing Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode.
While flawed, it’s definitely worth seeing. Just don’t go into it comparing it too much to the original. It is better than most of the remakes out there though, and it does do enough to set itself apart from the original to justify it’s existence.
Aba gives this flick a 7/10.
