The remake of "Halloween" is not the type of movie you would be inclined to boast about being a fan of or even watching in the first place. Rob Zombie's re-imagining is unbecoming, specializing in noisy audio, obnoxious dialogue, and unattractive visuals.
He attempts to accurately characterize the story's socioeconomic realities of the small town of Haddonfield, though the original never quite hinted at the extremes Zombie exercises. The uncharted territory, exploring Michael Myers the child, is interesting in theory, it not in practice due to Zombie's classless execution.
You can tell Zombie is a huge fan of the original by some distinctive choices, in particular the way he shows the transition from boy to man and Michael Myers as a human in addition to a murderer. The best thing I can say about "Halloween" (2007) is, Zombie does well with making film scary and constructing suspense and payoff. But that doesn't compensate for the poor taste of just about every artistic choice otherwise. He does his best work in the last act, but even that is ruined by the pile of false endings.
He attempts to accurately characterize the story's socioeconomic realities of the small town of Haddonfield, though the original never quite hinted at the extremes Zombie exercises. The uncharted territory, exploring Michael Myers the child, is interesting in theory, it not in practice due to Zombie's classless execution.
You can tell Zombie is a huge fan of the original by some distinctive choices, in particular the way he shows the transition from boy to man and Michael Myers as a human in addition to a murderer. The best thing I can say about "Halloween" (2007) is, Zombie does well with making film scary and constructing suspense and payoff. But that doesn't compensate for the poor taste of just about every artistic choice otherwise. He does his best work in the last act, but even that is ruined by the pile of false endings.