Halloween (Special Edition) (2-DVD) R

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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 18, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Weinstein

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The result, though undeniably preferable to yet another misbegotten installment of the long-exhausted franchise, certainly doesn't compare to John Carpenter's landmark original film.
Hollywood Reporter
Dec 12, 2007
Rating: 2/5 -- Taking 50 minutes to get to the present where the original took five, here we are offered something resembling justification for why poor little Mikey beat and stabbed his way to infamy. Full Review
Sydney Morning Herald
Nov 23, 2007
Zombie's version features a fascinating opening hour, but ultimately falls apart in the second half, with too many scenes failing to live up to the high standards of the original. Full Review
Bowling Green Daily News
Nov 21, 2019
Rating: 3/6 -- It's inanely-scripted exploitation, sure, but this 'Halloween' doesn't trivialise; it even returns with sympathy to one victim minutes after the attack that has left her bleeding on the floor. Full Review
Time Out
Sep 28, 2007
Because it's still about Michael Myers, it all feels epic and larger than life in a way few of those other films do. Full Review
Vox
Oct 19, 2018
At a time when most horror remakes seemed aimed at a teen market, Zombie's vision was decidedly more hardcore and uncompromising. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jun 3, 2019
Rating: 3/4 -- The Batman Begins of slasher movies, and one of the more frightening stabathons of recent years. Full Review
New York Post
Sep 12, 2007

Product Description:

The early 2000s have seen a string of big-budget remakes of classic horror films. In addition to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES, John Carpenter's benchmark slasher flick HALLOWEEN has been given a new-millennial overhaul. At the helm of the project sits rocker Rob Zombie, whose previous films, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES and THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, brought a fan's touch and an auteur's vision to the director's chair. While Zombie's HALLOWEEN is faithful to Carpenter's vision, there are some obvious changes, the most pronounced of these being the substantial focus on Michael Myers's childhood. The film posits Michael (played by a creepily vacant Daeg Faerch) as a troubled child made all the worse by a horrible home life--wonderfully illustrated via William Forsythe's performance as Deborah Myers's boyfriend--and constant abuse at school. Zombie paints Michael's pain with palpable grit and sleaze, but he isn't out to put our culture on the couch--he simply wants to show Michael killing his family. With the exception of Michael's therapy sessions while incarcerated, the film, post-massacre, stays loyal to the original.

Zombie's film is clearly the work of a filmmaker who knows and loves the genre. The director's signature is stamped all over HALLOWEEN (most notably in the use of grainy home movie footage and a smokin' classic rock soundtrack), although remnants of Carpenter's brilliant original still remain. When it comes to remakes, it's hard to ask for much more.

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  • UPC: 796019805582
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