Zombie may not be able to match the stalk 'n' menace of Carpenter's steadicam original, but when the Big Z's knife hits the right groove, he cuts to the dark heart of the Myers legend.
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10/02/07
Halloween (2007)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:26
Rotten:73
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Rob Zombie doesn't bring many new ideas to the table in Halloween, making it another bloody disappointment for fans of the franchise.
Theatrical Release:28-09-2007
Synopsis: The early 2000s have seen a string of big-budget remakes of classic horror films. In addition to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES, John Carpenter's benchmark slasher flick... [More]
Starring: Daeg Faerch, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon, Scout Taylor-Compton
Director: Rob Zombie
Reviews for Halloween
Top CriticThis take on Halloween is grim and nasty, but never remotely scary.
10/05/07
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09/15/07
It’s inanely-scripted exploitation, sure, but this ‘Halloween’ doesn’t trivialise; it even returns with sympathy to one victim minutes after the attack that has left her bleeding on the floor.
09/28/07
Top CriticRob Zombie's Halloween reboot isn't bad as remakes go, but the prequel scenes are better than the remake scenes.
09/29/07
Zombie and company give us the proverbial razor blade in the apple with another crappy horror remake.
08/31/07
There's no suspense, not a single jump-out-of-your-seat moment
08/31/07
I won't make the case that Halloween is anything other than a well-crafted slasher film. That's all it wants to be, and that's what it achieves. But I will say that the movie does the horror genre a big favor by reclaiming a legendary character.
09/05/07
If it wasn't a remake of Halloween, Halloween might have been pretty awesome.
09/12/07
There's plenty of slicing and dicing here, and a few moments of tension toward the end, but this is mostly a workmanlike and uninspired remake.
08/29/07
Finally we know why homicidal maniac Michael Myers wears a mask. Straight-up embarrassment.
08/31/07
though Zombie continues to have a true, unflinching artist's eye for the sublimely horrific, that eye is wasted here on an unnecessarily moribund history of sociopathy as it relates to Halloween in Haddonfield, Ill.
09/15/07
Chokes the life out of a classic--and then runs it hard into the business end of a butcher knife.
09/07/07
Some may think it isn't fair to compare Zombie's film to the original. Too bad. It's called "Halloween" and I'm pretty sure it's a remake of a movie called "Halloween".
04/19/08
As a sensory experience, the redo is flat. Even if giving audiences a start were Zombie's strength, fans already know when the scares are coming.
09/04/07
Adeptly packaged in all facets of production, Halloween is nicely cast with a combination of Zombie regulars, familiar faces and compelling newcomers and satisfyingly constructed with camerawork that heightens the suspense on the page.
09/04/07
Rob Zombie is a big ol' cinephile who lacks the chops to execute on the screen everything that's going on emotionally and intellectually inside his head.
09/10/07
If they can't top Busta Rhymes kung fu-ing Michael Meyers, there's really no point. Yes, that's the benchmark I have for the Halloween franchise.
08/31/07
The set-up is tediously slow, while the later murders are packed so tightly it's like watching a blender on high speed.
09/04/07
Halloween is, objectively speaking and without thinking about the original, a crummy film. As a remake of the Carpenter movie it's a heinous abortion.
08/30/07
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