This is Rob Zombie’s much-hyped remake of John Capenter’s 1978 Halloween movie about Michael Meyers. Rob Zombie adds his typical trademarks like lots of swearing and violence but doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the table. The remake spends a lot more time on the actual character of Michael Meyers and his childhood than the original one did. And it is interesting to see his disturbing behavior develop. But eventually it just devolves into another slasher movie where the psycho must kill everything for no real reason.
And the character of Dr. Loomis is pretty ridiculous. Michael starts out as a disturbed kid and this doctor is supposed to be helping him. But Michael just slides into a worse and worse psychosis, making Loomis clearly the worst doctor ever. After awhile I had no idea what was going on in this movie. People are getting killed pointlessly left and right. The convoluted story about his sister is just a mess and contrived. Overall there was just no point to this flick. Why bother remaking it at all? Just to add more gore, violence, rape scenes, and foul language? Skip it.
