Michael Myers Says "Die!"
Mon, December 14, 2009 
When I'm writing articles, I'm not one for injecting personal experiences into the body of my work, but I have to venture in that realm with this one. I apologize wholeheartedly in advance.
When Rob Zombie's Halloween dropped, I was cautious. I heard that he was taking over the franchise and I didn't love the idea. I was and in some respects, obsessed with his music but I haven't loved his movies. Not to say they have been terrible, "The Devil's Rejects" and "House of 1000 Corpses" certainly have their merit, but to me he was still the singer I knew and loved. It's like when a movie star comes out with an album, there will always be a Jamie Fox, but for every Jamie Fox there are the vocal stylings of Eddie Murphy. When the first trailer hit for Zombie's Halloween, I have to say I was impressed, from the looks of it Zombie actually did get it. The scenes were familiar being a remake of the original but seemed to have some originality that Zombie infused to make it his own.
Of course my significant other and I ventured to the theater on opening night to see it, she being a huge fan of Carpenter's Halloween films. We were in the theater for 20 minutes when she asked to leave, not because she was scared, but because she was disgusted. "This isn't Halloween", she said, and she was right. We left and made our way into another film, my confused friends still sitting in their roomy seats. Of course I had to see the rest of the movie, so I eventually got my hands on it. The film got better, but only when Zombie finally made his way to the rehash of what Carpenter already created. You honestly don't need to know where Michael Myers evil came from, that is what makes him so scary. There is almost no reason for it. He is sinister, he is random, and he is cold blooded. I understand what Zombie was going for, and I applaud him for it, but to me it just didn't work.
Despite my experience with the first one, I went to see the H2. Let me say that seeing H2 made me fall in love with Zombie's original. The 2nd Halloween with Zombie's complete control over the material completely missed the mark. When every other death ends with apparition of Michael's mother and his childhood self applauding said death or egging on another one, it becomes comical. I have to say Zombie nailed the ambience of a Halloween film, just like he did in the firt one. The feel of the film is just forboding. Michaeal is a killing machine and it works even though it vears a little to the left of how Michael usually operates based on our past experience. What is this all leading to? An alternate ending was released for Zombie's H2 where you actually get to witness Michael Myers talking. Yes. I'm not making this up. Up next for Rob Zombie, a remake of "The Blob". I'm not making that up either.
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