DVD Review: Rob Zombie’s Halloween (Unrated Director’s Cut) - Blogger News Network- Halloween News
Ever since the announcement that Rob Zombie would be re-imagining John Carpenter’s slasher classic Halloween , critics and horror fans alike have been picking sides, alternately at arms over what they saw as a modern travesty and supportive of Zombie’s ability to recreate and update the thrills of what many consider the original slasher flick (though Black Christmas - recently reworked for 2006’s Black Xmas - appeared in Canada over four years earlier than the original Halloween ). In fact, for the first hour of the film, as Zombie’s Myers unfolds before a bewildered audience, it starts to feel as if Zombie may have done the unthinkable and successfully created a back story that both evokes the original and adds new haunting layers to it. As anyone who saw The Devil’s Rejects knows, Zombie is somewhat of a master at the disturbing, the subversive, and the grotesque, but when it comes to writing dialogue for suburban families and teenie bopper girlfriends, Zombie is out of his element, and his film suffers for it. Perhaps the leap from House of 1000 Corpses to The Devil’s Rejects was so vast that audiences should have expected a bit of levelling out with his newest film, but here’s hoping he’ll continue to push the envelope that he opened with his impressively unique and startlingly dark foray into the world of film. More Halloween News