So I found this hard to find forgotten stepchild of the Halloween series on e-bay. and watched it. It has gotten crappy reviews from lots of people. I thought it was better then 4 or 5 even better then 2 which seemed kind of cheesy. This movie actually had a bit of a plot trying to explain why Michael kills.

Now it turns out in the next Halloween movie H20 they totally disregard 3-6, and Michael is just an evil psycho trying to kill his family not controlled by the Curse of Thorn. Anyone else seen H6? LEt me know what you think of it. I kind of like these two parallel storylines. 1 being Halloween straight through the Reseurrection of Michael Myers, the other being Halloween 1,2 H20 and then Resurrection (these are all the ones with Jamie Lee Curtis in them.)

This is a review by a friend of mine so if you dont want to read it stop now. And I agree with the review.

HALLOWEEN by Rob Zombie
I went into this movie with doubts-never a good sign –but the movie had some luck going for it because I was told by a few people how bad it is and this is usually the opposite kiss of death reaction –you know the one where someone tells you “you’ll love this movie” right then you know you never will—turns out that the people who told me it was awful have steered me wrong in the past… sometimes enough to ask them “what the hell where you on when you saw this movie? Because you clearly saw a different movie than I did…” so I usually take that as good sign omen, what have you...
Now Ol’ Rob has made only 2 other movies before he ventured into re-make world and they were both sort of maverick originals. House of 1000 Corpses he pulled out all the stops and used every influence from 70’s horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre (you know,, the good one), Hills Have Eyes, Deranged, aww hell all of them… and then he stepped back just a tad with the Devil’s Rejects ..using the same characters but about halfway thru that movie something happened to its style and idea, and it changed, after showing such promise with the sadistic motel scenes it took a turn for the worst, especially with the choice of music ”Freebird”?? gimme a break. So it had me wanting to leave the theatre
On the other hand, I am a huge fan of John Carpenter’s original, so as one can see it was not easy for me to wrap my brain around any UN preconceived notions about Rob Zombie’s Halloween so I went in expecting perhaps an excruciating time … and guess what? I kinda liked it.












Now it goes ahead and takes a buncha artistic license like having the first half be the “how Michael Myers got that way “ saga but William Forsythe RULES and he didn’t disappoint as the abusive drunken white trash step dad… and Rob’s wife Sherri Moon was surprisingly cool as the burdened stripper mom .. I know it won’t sound like it but it was a stretch from her 2 previous ultra psycho-*****-kitty roles. And the pudgy scary kid with the long hair as the young Michael was creepy. . but let’s just note here that you cannot I repeat CANNOT beat some one to death with a tree branch sorry… and then there’s Malcolm Mcdowell taking over the Donald Pleasance role…leaving me to once again say to myself what the hell happened to Malcolm Mcdowell? I mean there was time when he was ummmm GOOD! Well he wasn’t so bad in this except for his hideous hairpiece, anyone who watches the original again will notice that the Dr. Samuel Loomis role doesn’t do much the entire movie except stand around in wind bristled trees, mumbling bug-eyed scaredy-cat talk
Ok so the violence was good, gore was good, the fun part of seeing all kinds of character actors popping up including Mickey Dolenz-yes the one from the Monkees and the entire Zombie repertory theatre company of Sid Haig, Bill Mosely, Danny Trejo, Tom Towles, et all I really liked spotting Richard Lynch, Clint Howard, (Ron’s bro) the gratuitous Udo Kier, and even the always excellent “no matter what piece of crap I am in these days “ Brad Dourif as the sheriff
The second half of the movie stays pretty true to the original but it also has to be done in half the time so—when things look like they might plod…??? Another brutal killing and brutal they are..way into the bludgeoning factor in this one…but the ol’ knife slashing complete with the new “chunk and drip” noise that accompanies all good horror blood lettings theses days is no slouch either— all the hot teenage babysitting chicks and their dialogue was I bet you a word for word homage to the original just not as much and that is a good thing because a lot of the jibber jabber in the first one is just moronic filler because you know the psycho killer is out there SOMEWHER in his William Shatner mask ready to strike.. I think that Rob tried to stay pretty faithful but with the high-tech of today’s movies a slow story like this does need a bit more action not just extra violence and just like with a good cover song its better to take the original idea and Bend it to your own creative interpretation and Zombie’s case he shoulda twisted it all over the place and made it more of the psychedelic messes he is so fond of.

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