View Full Version : Rob Zombie's Halloween
The Wedge
08-21-2007, 09:05 PM
I'm boycotting.
I go in to more detail here (http://www.bartraeke.com/2007/08/rob-zombie-is-about-to-rape-my.html), but the main jist of my complaint is that beyond an awesome casting decision (Malcolm McDowell as Loomis) this re-imagining spits on everything that made the original so damn good.
I understand that you have to update it, but update it. Don't fundamentally change it.
Lucky Jim
08-21-2007, 10:05 PM
The first is minimal horror brilliance. The sequel? Probably more gory, overly-kinetic pablum.
The Wedge
08-22-2007, 07:47 AM
It's not even a sequel. I'd probably just shrug it off if Zombie were just making another sequel. He's retellng the original story. If you're going to do that, don't crap all over what made the original unique.
Lucky Jim
08-22-2007, 09:48 AM
It's not even a sequel. I'd probably just shrug it off if Zombie were just making another sequel. He's retellng the original story. If you're going to do that, don't crap all over what made the original unique.
Yeah, I didn't mean sequel. I guess I meant remake - after all, it would be impossible to diminish the tradition of Halloween sequels.
NewMarketSean
08-22-2007, 10:12 AM
I have slowly turned against remakes. I thought they were cool when they first started getting made, but then I realized most of them were pure crap.
I'm still intrigued by the Halloween remake only because it seems like so much has been changed. I'd rather have that, then some shot-by-shot remake like the Psycho or Omen remakes.
Plus Zombie has some good energy and he could inject some life into this otherwise dead franchise.
So in short, I don't have much hope in this film but I am willing to give Zombie the BOTD and see it before I all out trash it.
sakata_catching
08-22-2007, 10:16 AM
I'd rather see Zombie stick with his 70s horror pastiches rather than joining the depressing trend of remaking 70s horror classics. He properly reverences the genre and era, but it'll just turn out to be gratuitous in every possible way.
NewMarketSean
08-22-2007, 10:18 AM
I did read that he went back and reshot a lot of the death scenes to adds buckets of gore. Bad move IMO.
Still though, I'll wait to see it before I chime in with any definitive opinion.
The Wedge
08-31-2007, 01:06 PM
It's getting killed (though not in the Sun, of course...I long ago stopped taking any credence with the Sun critics, they're horrible). Reading the reviews on Rotten Tomatos is oddly satisfying.
Spoonless
09-01-2007, 10:41 AM
I think it's going to be one of those things where it'll be a good horror flick if it wasn't a remake.
It might be good for someone who's never seen the original, but the rest of us will probable be unable to not judge it based on the original.
The Wedge
09-01-2007, 11:34 AM
A couple reviews peg it that way, a passable enough horror movie if it wasn't a remake/reimagining of Halloween.
I've seen plenty of others that say it's just a bad movie, though, as well.