Trailer Tuesday: Halloween



I'm in two minds about this remake. On the one hand it could be as utterly pointless as that all-star, shot-for-shot Psycho remake that Gus Van Sant treated us to back in 1998.

On the other hand, the Halloween reimagining comes from Rob Zombie, whose Devil's Rejects and House of 1000 Corpses (I haven't seen them) which have their roots in the 1970's Exploitation genre. Think disturbing characters, plenty of gore and ample nudity.

The only problem is that apparently Zombie's film devotes a lot of time to explaining why Michael Myers is evil. Like Hannibal Rising, the film makers seem dead set on stripping the Enigma from Evil. And I fear that might rob Halloween of something. Out of all the 1970's-1980's horror villains, Michael Myers was always my favourite just because he was such a hulking, silent, inescapable, and unexplainable menace. I really don't want to 'learn' that he's like that because that he was molested as a little boy by a gang of pervert midget circus clowns...

Still, the trailer looks promising. And I'll probably end up checking out Zombie's Halloween when it is released in cinemas locally before the end of the year.



Halloween is set for release in North America on 31 August.

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