Halloween : Unrated (2-Disc DVD) - Moviehole- Topic: Halloween News
None of us wanted it - not when the original holds up so darn well but thankfully rocker turned filmmaker Zombie (”House of 1000 Corpses”, “The Devil’s Rejects”) didn’t just ‘Van Sant’ John Carpenter’s classic slasher film - he extended it, deepened it, shook it up. You see, part 1 of the film is a prequel - the back-story we were never shown in the original, or any of the umpteen sequels, strangely enough - of movie icon Myer’s pre-asylum years. We watch as the blonde haired-moppet goes from slaughtering rats in his bedroom to ultimately taking out the whole family sans baby Laurie and his mother (Sheri Moon Zombie and earning himself a spot in the local mental hospital, under the watchful eye of local psychologist, Dr Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell). The second half of the film which kicks in once the now grown-up Myers escapes the slammer - is the original film revisited/redone/reworked. Its almost as if it were forced onto the filmmaker by the studio keen to include at least an hour of what we know as ‘Halloween’ because it seems very much tacked-on and redundant. Whilst some filmmakers simply sit there and explain to the audience what’s ‘on the screen’ (we’ve seen the movie! More Halloween News