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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019805575
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 2813
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: August 31, 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The original slasher film about Michael Myers the psychotic killer who dons a mask and terrorizes his hometown is re-imagined by edgy director Rob Zombie. System Requirements:Run Time: 121 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/SLASHER MOVIES UPC: 796019805575 Manufacturer No: 80557
Amazon.com:
More of a supercharged revamp than a remake, Rob Zombie's take on John Carpenter's Halloween expands the back story of masked killer Michael Myers in an attempt to examine the motivation for his first deadly attack, as well as some reasons for his longevity as a horror icon. Zombie's Myers is a blank-eyed teen (played by Daeg Faerch) whose burgeoning mental problems are left unchecked in a horrific home environment; harassed by schoolmates, a randy sister, and his mother's deadbeat boyfriend (William Forsythe, terrific as usual), Myers' homicidal explosion seems inevitable, and intervention by Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell, who offers a fast-talking, hippiefied version of the Donald Pleasance character) does little to impede his development into a mute, unstoppable killing machine (Tyler Mane) bent on finishing off the only survivor of his family's massacre--his sister, now grown into teenaged Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton). Opening up the psychological motivation of a cipher like Michael Myers is an interesting approach, but Zombie's script possesses neither a depth of character nor dialogue to offer more than a clichéd thumbnail character sketch, and devoting over a hour of the unrated cut's 120-minute-plus running time to this history feels bloated and self-indulgent (especially when compared to the lean efficiency of the Carpenter original). Zombie's Halloween isn't terribly suspenseful, either; he has a keen eye for visuals and the details of chaotic environments, but his scares are nothing more than brutal showcases for his special effects team. The end result barely surpasses the original film's numerous sequels, though the Who's Who of cult and character actors in the cast (including Zombie regulars Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Ken Foree, as well as Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Richard Lynch, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, and Danielle Harris) adds a touch of late-night monster movie charm. However, the film's best performance belongs to the director's spouse, Sheri Moon Zombie, who brings unexpected pathos to the role of Myers' downtrodden mother.
The two-disc Unrated Director's Cut offers a full disc's worth of extras that should please Zombie fans; chief among the supplemental features is his commentary, which details the film's shooting history and the numerous edits required to deliver the theatrical version. A making-of featurette offers further details of Zombie's vision for the film, and there are featurettes on his cast choices and the many masks that Myers makes while incarcerated. Seventeen deleted scenes (two of which feature Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Towles) and an alternate ending (all with Zombie's commentary) are also provided, as well as footage from the casting sessions. A blooper reel, which is highlighted by unchecked mischief by McDowell and Dourif, offers the set's sole moment of levity. -- Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hallloween
I bought this for my brother last Christmas. I personally didnt like it. In one scene a girl gets raped so if that kind of thing bothers you this may not be for you. That kind of thing in a movie turns me right off. I think the original was better.
Rating:  - Waaaay Better Than Some of the Other Movies In This Series
This remake of Halloween is one of the best movies in the series. I loved how it gives a very in-depth look into the childhood of Michael Myers and showed the abuse he suffered from his step father and his parents weren't Leave It To Beaver parents like they are portrayed on the original movie. I don't know what there is not to like about this movie. When I watched this movie in theaters, I literally had to check my pulse I was jumping so much. Rob Zombie had a big mountain to climb and he has achieved ... Read More
Rating:  - Gimme a machete and I'll take out Laurie Strode!!
This is not Rob Zombie's best film. That honor goes to The Devil's Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition), Zombie's visceral, shocking and funny tribute to B-movie gorefests. Halloween is an extremely weak re-make of John Carpenter's masterpiece, Halloween (Divimax 25th Anniversary Edition). The most innovative and creative part of Zombie's film is the first hour where he explores the birth of a serial killer. Zombie's extraordinary depiction of Michael's life in a hellish home where domestic violence is ... Read More
Rating: - On Rob Zombie, Michael Meyers, Scout Taylor-Compton, and Danielle Harris
In order to make this a more brief and positive review, I will disregard the entire first half of the film. Rob Zombie should have kept Michael's personality and motives more of a mystery, because I think this aspect of John Carpenter's "Halloween" is what has helped to make it a timeless genre masterpiece.
That said, I believe that the last hour of the film is quite faithful to the original film, and even takes it to highs that John Carpenter, Debra Hill, and Jamie Lee Curtis ... Read More
Rating: - A MASTERPIECE!
I saw the original Halloween in theaters and loved it. Have seen it many times since, and Carpenter's version is great. Just about all the sequels blew one way or the other, changing Michael Myers from a lunatic into an unstoppable juggernaut. Bullets can't stop him! Fire can't stop him! Decapitation can't stop him! Who cares anymore?! This began a whole trainload of bat guano mascarading as horror/splatter flicks like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elmstreet, ad naseum, with monsters that can't be killed and ... Read More
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