I’ve got say, I’m impressed. I’m not much of a fan of the current horror movie “scene” and I guess that’s precisely why I liked Rob Zombie’s rework of the classic horror movie, Halloween. <\/p>\n
Rob Zombie co-produced, directed and wrote this retelling of the story of Michael Myers with impressive results. Zombie could have easily gone the Saw\/Hostel route with this movie, with ultra-gorey special effects, and long drawn out torture scenes but instead he created a version of Halloween that stuck close to the original with fresh twists. <\/p>\n
The music was good as well. He kept the original theme by John Carpenter which was totally necessary, but also included a creepier version of “Mr. Sandman” which was also in the original film. The song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” was quite comical one scene. Tyler Bates’ musical score kept the perfect amount of suspense without you actually noticing the music, which in my opinion means the composer did his job perfectly.<\/p>\n
There were many shots in the Zombie version that were homages to scenes in the original movie, and Zombie even used fans’ knowledge of the original movie against them by making them think they knew where a particular scene was going by keeping the scene true to the orignal, and then changing it at the last minute.<\/p>\n
I’d also like to point out that Zombie is a pretty damn good director. He managed to create angles that maintained suspense, intensified surprise, and kept the movie pacing perfect.<\/p>\n
If you’re a fan of the original movie, give Zombie’s remake a shot. If a movie snob like myself can appreciate it, you won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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