36 out of 37 people found the following review helpful:

Should of left well alone.

A Customer from London, 7th October, 2007

If your looking for a straight remake of the original don't look here. Rob Zombie has totally changed the film around, the film is mainly about young Myers instead of the real scares of when hes older. Now instead of coming from a well to do American family, Michael Myers now comes from a broken home, instead of being a fairly normal kid who went mad on Halloween night (while wearing a clown costume for trick or treat) hes been turned into a more feminine if anything slightly backward kid who has a fixation with a stupid clown mask?! The casting is awful, whoever cast the young Michael missed the mark and now older Michael has long hair and doesn't seem the mindless monster he is in the original. The acting is woeful at best and the dialogue awful, its as if Zombie was going for the record of bad language in a film. Malcolm Mcdowell does his best to hold it together but unfortunately its a lost cause. This version is much more gory then the original but doesn't have half the scares. A complete waste, this remake had big potential but Zombie messed it up big time, hes really missed the point of the Legend of Michael Myers. Rent the original instead its a much better film even though it was made nearly 30 years ago.

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23 out of 23 people found the following review helpful:

stalk and and slash,well slash anyway

mattyladd from , 3rd October, 2007

NON geeks

This film is o.k.Lots of gore and a few scary bits.In the original the main character Michael Myers (the psycho) is like a ghost, turning up when we least expect it, scaring the hell out of us, instead in this fim the psycho goes out and out for it, killing nearly everyone
he sees. It does become very predictable.

GEEKS

Rob Zombie directed this film.The original was directed by the master John Carpenter. The film is basically about a mad man named michael Myers. In the first part of the film we see michael as a child and we meet his family (a truly disfunctional lot). One day michael dons a mask and goes on a killing spree. He is arrested and put in a rehabilitation centre. However he can not remember a thing about what he did. Things happen in the centre and they decide to keep him locked up.
We then meet michael some fiteen years later. This is unfortunately where the film becomes rather predictable. Where John Carpenter keeps us guessing what will happen next. Rob Zombie has gone for a blood bath of slaughter. Michael Myers is looking for someone( i wont say who) and basically kills anyone who gets in his way. There is no tension as he goes from house to house causing bloody mayhem. This is where the film fails it just isnt scary ! Considering it is halloween we hope to be frightened but are not..

Rob Zombie has directed one of my favourite horror films House Of A Thousand Corpses (sick and funny and totally unpredictable) he also did Devils Rejects (nast and very sick). I do not understand why he did this remake,he obviously has talent. Leave all horror to the supreme being J.C.

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22 out of 23 people found the following review helpful:

OMG

xAngelxBabex from from Pinner, 9th March, 2008

Believe Me If you watch this movie you are in for a SHOCK I watched This with a group of my friend And god was it scary I reccomend this for older teenagers remember watch it in pitch dark for a right scare

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17 out of 18 people found the following review helpful:

GORY BUT FUN

gaz08 from , 30th September, 2007

if u want a pure sat nite gore fest with an easy to follow plot youll love this.. Plenty of gore and jumps and ok performances.None of them oscar winning but this isnt that kinda film.

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Ok...nothing more

A Customer from Manchester, 19th March, 2010

The problem when trying to remake a classic is that there is usually only ever one way to go...down. In My Opinion Rob Zombie fails to bring the terror he demonstrated in Devils Rejects to this classic tail. I found the early days of Michael as a child quite interesting and so enjoyed teh first half of the film. Then the second half of the film is the remake of the classic. It just doesn't create the same suspence and fear of the original. Nice try but no cigar.

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Pleasantly surprised

Bikecrazidanny from , 11th March, 2010

Being an avid fan of the original Halloween Movies I did wonder, if like so many old films remade, would this be another dissapointment. Thankfully no it wasn't I enjoyed it from start to finish, this remake delivers and thankfully is not a total copy of the original and shows you alot more of the childhood and troubles of Michael Myers. If like me you are a fan of the original movies, you wont be dissapointed :)

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Really, really bad. Please stop 'Rob Zombie' making films.

GlynIngram from , 11th February, 2010

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ reimagining is how utterly boring it quickly becomes. Amongst all the murder, mayhem and misogyny is an Ok performance by Malcolm McDowell, replacing the late Donald Pleasance in the role of Dr Sam Loomis. But even he can't save the day; this is a complete mess of a film that flatters John Carpenter’s original – and which, in any case, was hardly ever a masterpiece - and doesn’t even provide any remotely imaginative murder sequences to repel, amuse or entertain. The dialogue is flat and dire, the characters are completely one-dimensional and the long prologue which Zombie tacks on to ‘explore’ Michael Myres’s background ends up being entirely illogical, partially as the ‘boy’ McDowell’s character later describes is absolutely nothing like the one we witness in the film’s opening forty-odd minutes. Zombie is also unable to solve the problem that Michael Myres is, and always will be, one of the most boring horror film killers in modern cinema. It’s repetitive, uninspired filmmaking but with a talentless idiot at the helm, expecting much else would have just been ridiculous. Please stop this fool making films.

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Sigh...

A Customer from Nottingham, 3rd January, 2010

In giving an explanation to the development of Michael Myers into a deranged psychopath they've totally demystified a horror movie legend; Michael Myers is no longer the creepy, lurking Bogeyman of the original movie, he's an overstated, in-your-face amoral killing machine and there's very little to keep you searching for the cushion here.

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