Halloween (Director's Cut Special Edition) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 18, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe & Scout Taylor-Compton | |
Performer: | Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif & Danielle Harris | |
Directed by | Rob Zombie | |
Screenwriting by | Rob Zombie | |
Composition by | Tyler Bates | |
Produced by | Malek Akkad, Andy Gould & Rob Zombie | |
Director of Photography: | Phil Parmet |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Rob Zombie certainly has a unique vision for the Michael Myers myth, albeit one that undermines the haunting ambiguity of Carpenter's original.
Flickering Myth
It's relentlessly malevolent....Zombie's production design laces it with a truly nasty edge.
Total Film
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.
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Time Out
Zombie's version offers an extended prologue that fills in the formative days of Myers' psychosis...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1/10 --
It's not thrilling enough for horror hounds, not entertaining enough for casual audiences, not smart enough for franchise fans and not good enough for anyone.
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Box Office Prophets
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.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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
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.
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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