![]() ![]() Zombie reportedly didn’t want to make this film at first, saying that one Halloween movie would be enough. As usual, Zombie gets some great genre actors onboard, including Malcolm McDowell ( Clockwork Orange) as Myers’ therapist Doctor Loomis, and Brad Dourif ( Child’s Play) as Sheriff Brackett. With that all said, it’s hard not to enjoy this savage rollercoaster, especially once the movie leaves the past and lunges into the present. ![]() This rebooted Myers is a supremely intimidating giant, and while that’s cool in some ways, it again reduces Michael Myers to a mere human being, as opposed to Carpenter’s creepy legend who dwells in shadow with unclear motives. Zombie also transforms young Myers into a Kiss fan, while his adult self strongly resembles Mick Thomson from Slipknot. Even more unfortunately, Zombie’s chosen backstory turns out to be exactly what you’d expect. Sadly, his script decides to show us much more of slasher icon Michael Myers’ youth than we’ve ever seen – as if any movie-goer in history ever lay awake at night, wishing they knew more about what makes Myers kill. As you’d hope, Zombie takes the bull by the horns and does Halloween his way, introducing a new level of brutality to the franchise. John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, re-imagined by Rob Zombie? A simultaneously bizarre and enticing proposition. As before, Zombie seems to want us to laugh along with the titular trio, as well as feel unsettled by their rampages, but moments like Foxy slashing a naked woman’s throat, while branding her a “bitch”, makes that impossible. Whereas Captain Spaulding was a freaky OTT clown, however, and a fascinating paternal figure who brought some kind of warped balance to the family, Foxy is just a despicable and one-dimensional redneck psycho. In an attempt to fill Spaulding’s enormous clown shoes, the writer and director introduces Otis’ half-brother Foxy (Richard Brake). Sadly, the death of legendary actor Sid Haig during production meant that Zombie could no longer include Captain Spaulding alongside his central killers Otis (Bill Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie). Whereas the first two films’ disturbing power lies in the pervading sense that Zombie is rooting for the bad guys, this one just makes you r eally want his titular trio to die horribly. Zombie repeats the linear plot of The Devil Rejects, almost beat for beat, but with one crucial difference. ![]()
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