Halloween
Halloween
is a 2007 horror film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie
The film is a remake/reimagining of the 1978 horror film of the same
name, and the ninth film in the Halloween film series.
Zombie's film goes deeper into the character's psyche, trying to answer
the question of what drove him to kill people, whereas in Carpenter's
original film Michael did not have an explicit reason for killing.
Working from Carpenter's advice to "make [the film] his own", Zombie
chose to develop the film as both a prequel and a remake, allowing for
more original content than simply re-filming the same scenes. Despite
mostly negative reviews, the film, which cost $15 million to make, went
on to gross $80,208,039 worldwide.
Fifteen years ago, Michael Myers brutally murdered his sister. Now,
after escaping from a mental hospital, he's back to relive his grisly
crime again, and again...and again. Halloween is as pure and
undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a
teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless
terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the towns
hormonally charged youths, it’s a movie much scarier for its dark
spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting
(which is actually minimal).
Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and
spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original.
Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981's dismal Halloween
II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate
events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween
H20, which proved the former baby sitter, was still haunted
after 20 years.
