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Halloween review by Shatner's Bassoon
Superb horror remake.
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Of the recent crop of horror remakes 'Halloween' is easily the best of the bunch. I have to admit to being sceptical about Rob Zombie remaking John Carpenter's 1978 original film, but amazingly Zombie has created a remake which arguably is even better than the original. Zombie has taken the bare storyline of the original film and expand what was a basic suspenseful slasher movie into a far more rounded story which is essentially split into three parts. The first part shows a young Michael Myers growing up in an abusive and dysfunctional family where the only love he gets is from his hard working and busy mother. Singled out, taunted and bullied at school Myers cracks and kills a fellow pupil, then returns home and kills part of his family. Sent to secure institution, the second part of the film charts Myers emotional withdrawal and the efforts of Dr. Samuel Loomis to create some form of connection and halt Myers decent into insanity. The third part of the film follows Myers escape and return to his hometown of Haddonfield to track down his baby sister which ultimately results in a massacre. The clever part of the original 'Halloween' was the start of the film and moment the killers clown mask was removed to reveal it was a child, in the remake Zombie spends the first portion of the film showing Myers as a child, and the clever part is that he never shows face of the adult Myers, so when the adult Myers is on his killing spree all you visualise behind the mask is a blonde haired, androgynous looking and emotionally vulnerable child, which makes the killing seem even more powerful. And where the original film was very much a slash and dash style horror the remake is far more blood filled and violent, Myers is absolutely brutal and the killing scenes are far more prolonged, ferocious and savage. Rob Zombie also pays huge respect to Carpenter's original film by recreating key scenes and including the film's original score. Overall, as well being a superb remake this is easily one of the best horror films of the past decade, and if you're a horror fan this isn't one you should miss.
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