Prepare yourself for the sacrilege boys and girls, but this one is better than the original. Yes, yes, the original is a classic, but this one has an advantage . . . nothing supernatural.
Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Pinhead, Shia Labeouf are all unstoppable, unkillable evil machines. This makes the killers uninteresting and their films repetitive. Same thing over and over. You know, repetitive. Over and over. Killer wakes up, kills teenagers (no problem here, I work in a mall so I know) 1 or 2 survive the carnage and the killer is burned, frozen or whatever till the next installment.
Yawn.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween has a more psychological storyline: Child abuse=animal abuse=serial killer. This seems to be the pattern when I read about maniacs in the newspaper. This and “He was a very quiet man, very quiet we didn’t expect him to snap.” No kidding.
The first Halloween showed little of Michael’s childhood, whereas this one shows how Michaels environment created the killer. A far more realistic telling of a serial killers path. Some scenes from the original are used in the new one, but a whole new take on the subject is in effect here. This Michael picks and chooses his victims logically. Daeg Faerch, who plays young Mikey, is suitably creepy, by turns sympathetic then violent.
Good performances, sad story, violent and scary. If you like horror films, don’t miss this one.
Next:Balls of Fury
