if you love the original’s mystique. Watch it if you want to see what happens when the boogeyman takes off his mask and says “die.”
Halloween 2007 is a fascinating failure and a brutal success simultaneously. It fails as a remake of a masterpiece—it has none of Carpenter’s elegant restraint. But it succeeds as a Rob Zombie film : a savage, heartbreaking, and deeply unpleasant origin story. halloween 2007
Zombie makes a bold choice: spend the first 45 minutes inside the broken home of 10-year-old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch). This isn’t the unknowable, ghost-like boogeyman of 1978. This is a boy with a neglectful stripper mother (Sheri Moon Zombie), an abusive stepfather, and a bullying sister. Zombie argues that Michael was created , not born. And it works. Young Faerch is terrifyingly believable—a ticking time bomb of animal rage. The murder of his stepfamily is raw, ugly, and far more visceral than the original’s clinical stalking. You almost feel sorry for him. Almost . if you love the original’s mystique
6.5/10 (A brutal curiosity, not a classic) But it succeeds as a Rob Zombie film
This is a Rob Zombie movie. Every line of dialogue is either a redneck shouting “Fuck!” or Dr. Loomis waxing poetic about evil. The cinematography is grimy, handheld, and feels like a roadside diner bathroom. If you hated The Devil’s Rejects , you’ll hate this. If you love grindhouse sleaze, you’ll eat it up.