Review of Halloween

Rob Zombie, as you all most likely know, is one of cinema's most eccentric director, and with "The Devil's Rejects" he show'd us what fun and how depraved psychos can be, but rather in (a surprising remake of John Carpenter and Debra Hill's 1978 chiller by the same name) this film he explored the character of the hunter and the hunted, although no development actually takes place; I'm glad that at least one slasher film does what it can in character exploration, and shows the struggle and hurt of the protagonist. With a interesting role for Malcolm McDowell-a good one at that- who plays Dr. Samuel Loomis, the character who tried to find the decency in the killer, a quest that was never completed, but instead, Myers got worse. And a killer was born. The plot revolves around Myers, and goes from the terribly depressing and harrowing exploration of his childhood with a caring but absent-minded mother, an abusive step-father, and an older sister; who all somehow lead Myers to his downfall. On Halloween night, a night he treasures, no one will take him out trick-or-treating, instead he sits in the kitchen contemplating whether he should forget about Halloween, or pull the biggest knife you've ever seen and chop up his family, all except his mother and baby sister. The killings in the film are done tastelessly, and that somehow makes the image Zombie was trying to create even stronger, the more guts and nudity in the film, the more potent the sub-text is to the viewer. The second part of the film, following terrible digression at the mental hospital, and suicide of his mother, he escapes and makes a road trip all the way back home, for Halloween night. He stalks his baby sister (Scout Taylor-Compton) and her friends, only to create a bloodbath for the three baby sisters. An intelligent point of both films, is when the child that she is babysitting is going on and on about 'the boogyman' there actually a soulless maniac out there waiting to spring. There are certainly very intense moments in the film so no children or squeamish should even think about watching this, but fans of Zombie, slasher-horror, or just looking for a good movie will like this film. The scene where Laurie Strode (Taylor-Compton) is up in the rafters of the abandoned Myers' house, and Michael is using a giant log to smash holes where she is hiding will literally make your heart stop. I doubt that if McDowell wasen't in it, Zombie haden't have directed it, this would be yet another typical clichéd film.