Another Halloween Film Due Out Fall 2009...

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Proud2BAMuslim

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Oh my god, according to this article here...

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/category/halloween-2-remake-2009-movie/

.. there is going to be another Halloween film out later this year - this time it will be a remake of Halloween 2 originally released in 1981.
I can't believe they are remaking the second Halloween film after the disastrous remake of the first one. If they can't get the first one right then they shouldn't bother remaking any of the other Halloween films in my view.
They should have made a new Halloween film with a completely new plot and story instead of remaking the original films.
 
It's a follow on from Rob Zombie's rubbish remake, nothing to do with the original sequel apparently. Rob Zombie back even thought he first said he wouldn't...
 
I thought it was OK, but I wished Rob Zombie had just started his own slasher series, rather than turn the Halloween concept upside down.

The whole point of Michael is that he's from an apparently ideal middle class family unit and nobody knows why he committed his original crime. Doctor Loomis only understanRAB Michael as an embodiment of evil. There's certainly no touchy-feely relationship between doctor and patient.

Giving Michael a white trash 'origin story' with a stripper mother and abusive stepfather was a huge mistake.
 
I quite liked the remake. One of the worst things about the original was that there was no reason why he suddenly turned psycho. At least the remake suggested some and showed a gradual build up of psychotic behaviour.

All this talk of embodiment of evil might have worked 4 decades ago (with all the other Jamie Lee Curtis rubbish scream queen films) but not now.
 
That's the whole point of Michael though, there isn't reason for why he is, he just is and that if you ask me is a lot more scary than the lumbering oath you get in the remake. Zombie totally missed the point and his way just doesn't work in a Halloween movie, maybe he should have created an original slasher movie if that's the type of killer he wanted instead of destroying a true horror icon.

It still works today as well as it ever did as well, people just have no imagination today, they need a reason for everything, they need everything layed out clearly and explained to them, god forbid we let them think for themselves.

Zombie's Halloween is the worst thing to ever happen to the Halloween franchise (as a slasher film it's fine, as a Halloween film it's appalling) mainly because we can't really go back now and have the old Michael, we are stuck with this giant trailer trash version.
 
I honestly didn't mind Zombie's Halloween the first time I saw it,but that's because I hated Halloween:Ressurrection (apart from the first 10 minutes).On second viewing I can see why people hated it.

I liked the first hour and thought it was actually fairly true to life in many ways.Strange having a trailer trash,depressing feel inside of a Halloween movie,but I liked the frachise going in a different direction.
The major problems with the movie was that it was always going to be difficult to take having other actors playing Loomis and Laurie.
The 7 ft Michael was a silly move that didn't work apart from being a homeage to classic monster movies.

The second half is what let it down.A 50 minute long retread of the kind of slasher movie that got boring 20 years earlier with added cliches galore.The scenes meant to pay homage to Halloween (1978) came off as a rip off and there was no suspense what so ever,which meant I could care less for the characters killed (they had barely been introduced).
 
I haven't yet watched the remake, the bad reviews have really put me off ruining the orignal, I agree with previous post about why couldn't Rob Zombie just have created his own Slasher Franchise and maybe cited Halloween as a major influence rather than completely change the storyline, I'm even less inclined to watch it now, I thought it just showed more of Michaels childhood, not that he had a completely different childhood.

Is it like the Black Christmas remake? I kinda like the remake as a film in itself, the backstory was gruesome but I think it kinda worked, but the film was barely like the original at all, both were good films but the remake lacked the mystery of the first.

Does anyone else like Halloween 2? I watched it at Halloween and kinda loved it, it wasn't as good as the original, but I found it still as scary as when I first watched Halloween?
 
If you liked the horrible remake of Black Christmas then you would probably love Zombie's remake.
 
If you're really a fan of the original then I would advise you to stay clear of the remake.:(

Sadly I didn't but I don't want my suffering to be in vain.
 
Psychobabble explanations are not a new thing. In fact, the original Halloween was innovative because no rational explanation was spoon-fed to the audience.

Michael didn't look monstrous. We're not led to believe he was bullied or abused in any way. We're not told of any history of psychotic behaviour. He's just an ordinary little kid who murdered his sister and her boyfriend for no apparent reason.

The whole embodiment of evil guff is not offered as a serious explanation. Doctor Loomis may rant about 'evil' but that's only because he's been driven half-mad by this totally blank child/man.

The scariest thing about Michael is that nobody knows what drove him to become a killer.
 
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