HE'S GONE FROM HERE! THE EVIL IS GONE! By: SASHA SLAUGHTER

Hey there blog stalkers!! Sasha Slaughter here with you for more Halloween themed socks rocking awesomeness...woo! Today I'll be talking about a little movie titled Halloween. No, not the original from 1978, I'm talking Rob Zombie's Halloween from 2007. Halloween is an American slasher film that written, directed, and produced by the one and only Rob Zombie. 

It's a remake of the 1978 classic written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Rob Zombie's re- imagining follows pretty much the same premise as John Carpenter's original, with Michael Myers stalking Laurie and her friends on Halloween night. But in Rob Zombie's version he chose to go a little more in depth into the psyche of Michael Myers and figure out what made him start killing people.

Zombie, working from Carpenters advice to make the film his own, chose to develop the film as both a prequel and a remake at the same time. He wanted to have more original content instead of just redoing the scenes. The film mainly got negative reviews, but despite that the film ended up grossing $80,208,039 world wide, which made it the highest grossing film in the Halloween franchise. So let me tell you a little about the film if you don't already know!

One Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois, having already begun to show signs of psychopathic tendencies , ten year old Michael Myers (played by Daeg Faerch) murders a school bully named Wesley, and then goes on to kill his own sister Judith, his mother's boyfriend Ronnie, and his sisters boyfriend Steve and he spares his youngest sister, whom he calls Boo. Soon after one of the longest trials in state history Michael is found guilty of first degree murder and is sent to Smith's Grove- Warren County Sanitarium where he is put under the care of child psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis.

Michael cooperates with Loomis at first, claiming he has no memory of the killings; and his mother Deborah (played by Sheri Moon Zombie) visits Michael regularly. After a year in the sanitarium Michael becomes fixated on making masks out of papier-mache, and begins to close himself off to everyone, including his mother.

One night when Michael kills a nurse as Deborah is leaving from one of her visits, she can no longer deal with the situation at hand, Deborah goes home and commits suicide. For the next fifteen years, Michael continues making the masks and not speaking to anyone, even Dr. Loomis who is trying to help him. Dr. Loomis, having continued to treat Michael over the years, attempts to move on with his own life and closes Michael's case. Shortly after, while being prepared to be moved to maximum security, Michael escapes Smith's Grove and kills a few of the sanitarium employees, and a truck driver for his clothes, and then heads to Haddonfield. On Halloween night, Michael returns to his old home, now abandoned, and recovers the kitchen knife that he had hidden under the floor boards the night he killed his sister.

Throughout the day on Halloween Laurie (Michael's sister) notices Michael watching her from a distance while she is with her friends Lynda and Annie. That night, she heads to the Doyle residence to watch their son Tommy. Meanwhile, Lynda meets up with her boyfriend Bob at Michael's childhood home. Michael appears and finds them upstairs and murders them, and he goes on to kill Laurie's parents, Mason and Cynthia. Dr. Loomis, having been alerted of Michael's escape, goes to Haddonfield looking for him. Loomis tries to warn Sheriff Brackett that Michael has returned to his home in Haddonfield. Dr. Loomis and the sheriff quickly go to the Strode home, while Loomis explains to Brackett that Laurie Strode is actually Michael's baby sister.

Laurie's friend Annie convinces her to babysit the little girl she is watching named Lindsey Wallace so she can have sex with her boyfriend Paul. Annie and Paul return to the Wallace home and during sex, Michael appears and kills Paul and attacks Annie. After bringing Lindsey home, Laurie finds Annie on the floor, bloodied but alive and calls 911. Laurie is attacked by Michael, who then chases her to the Doyle home. The sheriff and Dr. Loomis hear the 911 call and quickly head to the Wallace residence. Michael finally catches up with Laurie and kidnaps her and takes her back to their childhood home and then..

Aww come on! If you've seen the movie then you know what happens next!! If you haven't, I highly suggest that you do. I thought it was a great remake. Although Rob Zombie's Halloween II was really disappointing, but you should definitely check it out for yourself. I like the fact that Zombie put his own spin on the movie while sticking to alot of the original content. He kind of just freshened it up a bit so to speak. And I also like that he sort of explained the whole mask infatuation that Michael had. 

 He really added new life to the character of Michael Myers by delving deeper into his psyche and explaining the mask that he wears. Zombie had explained that he wanted Michael to be true to what a real psychopath is really is, and wanted the mask to be a way for Michael to hide himself. Zombie also wanted the reason Myers returns to Haddonfield to be ambiguous. As he explains "was he trying to kill Laurie, or just find her because he loves her?" Well said right???

Zombie also made it a point in the remake to not have Michael drive, as he did in the original when he stole Loomis' car so he could drive back to Haddonfield. And he also wanted the character of Loomis to be more intertwined with Michael Myers. Rob Zombie definitely added more of a background to the story of Myers, creating more original content for film. He also chose to keep the trademark mask and Carpenter's theme song. And filming also took place in the same neighborhood that Carpenter used in the original Halloween. Yay! 

More information for you to absorb! Isn't learning fun? Overall I'd give Rob Zombie's Halloween a 4 out of 5. I thought it was a great interpretation of the original and he stayed true and paid a great tribute to John Carpenter. He added some of his original content, including the story of the mask, while staying true to Carpenter's version of the movie. 

I own this DVD and I've watched it quite a few times, and I enjoy it more and more every time. It's just a well done movie and I would recommend it to any Halloween dynasty lover or any fan of Rob Zombie's work. That's all I gotta say about that! Now how about you mosey on over and see what Zane's got going on? I'm sure it'll make you randy!! =) And thanks for stopping by Dead End 
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