Halloween - Review

Well, I know I'm a little late on this review, seeing as how the movie came out in 2007, but now that the Halloween remakes are going to continue (with or with out Zombie) I decided it would be a good time to review the film. After all, I have had over a year to gather my thoughts on it.

First of all, I was not happy about the idea of a Halloween remake. I love the idea of an older film being brought back and remade so that these famous, classic movies are not forgotten, and or ignored by today's generation of kids. On the other hand, a film like Halloween is just too much of a classic to be messed with. Now in the future, people will look back on this film, rather then the real film. Plus I don't think it's an old enough film to be remade, especially because there was another Halloween sequel that came out, only about 6 or 7 years ago. What the heck??? Is that not too soon for a remake? Maybe in 2015 we can remake Twilight.

So if you have not seen the original, Halloween is a story about a young boy who goes insane and becomes a serial killer. It's a very basic idea for a film, but it's not the kind of movie that needs an incredible story line to be good. It was a small low budget film that is now a classic and is famous for introducing one of the most popular horror icons of all time, Michael Myers. The remake keeps the same story line, not changing it in anyway. The big difference between this film and the original film is that this one shows the man behind the mask, in other words the making of this evil man, from a child, to an adult. Now, I was incredibly interested to see how Michael Myers grew up and what went wrong in his life, making him angry enough to murder people for no reason. But at the same time, the fact that you don't know who Michael Myers is or why he does this is part of what makes the original Halloween film so great. You write the story, you write the script. You can make it up in your own mind and try to figure out what it is that you don't know. So I guess I like both versions.

With heavy metal singer and horror film director Rob Zombie directing this film, you know your in for a blood bathed, terrifying, horror film that wont be so easy to forget. I mean that! This movie is bloody as could be and pretty explicit, in every way possible. Now some people see blood and gore as the feature that makes the film good, I, on the other hand, do not see blood and gore as scary, just gross.

So over all, I enjoyed this film as a horror film, but not as a remake of the classic we all know and love. If you think about it as a remake of Halloween, it just makes you compare the two films, if your watching a remake and not comparing it to the original film, you know your watching a good movie. As just a horror film rather then a remake, it's good. I was not thrilled about the classic Michael Myers, Dr. Lumes and Lory Strode characters, as they were nothing like the original characters, in a bad way, and I couldn't bare to watch all the blood, gore and stabbing scenes.

Now, with Halloween 2 out and 3,4 & 5 on the way, I am still upset about these films being remade. But Rob Zombie is right about one thing, Michael Myers as we know him, is still a horror film icon, but is no longer scary, and his Halloween makes you remember how scared you were of Michael Myers, watching the original as a little kid. So I give him kudos for bringing back the horror in this character, but I give him a huge thumbs down for destroying one of the greatest horror films ever!

I'd give this movie a rating of 3 stars