Rachael MurphyHalloween Comes Early This Year
August 24th 2007 08:05
In anticipation of Rob Zombie's re-make of John Carpenter's classic Halloween (due for release 31st August) I decided to re-visit the original movie and sequels to get into the Halloween mood.
So off I went to the local video shop and hired out Halloween 1, Halloween 2, Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch and Halloween Resurrection (they didn’t have Halloween H20).
Parts 1 & 2 were alright, obviously in the seventies it didn’t take much to get an R rating, just the hint of violence or a tiny spray of fake blood seemed to be enough. Anyone who has seen the Halloween series will know that part 2 begins literally where part 1 ended, it takes off on the same night, same characters and continues the story.
Then you have Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch, it's absolutely terrible. Some not-so-bright spark decided to take it to another level, no...another building, no...another planet! It has nothing to do with the first two movies or the original characters, the only similarity I could see was it was set on and around Halloween.
The movies then take a turn into the new millennium and the violence and gore factors are stepped up a few notches. Add in a few teenagers, a rapper and a supermodel and Halloween Resurrection is an entertaining gore-filled ride.
Rob Zombie has gained a reputation for lots of blood, realistic violence and gore (see House of 1000 Corpses & The Devils Rejects for examples). It will be interesting to see what he does to this horror classic.
So off I went to the local video shop and hired out Halloween 1, Halloween 2, Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch and Halloween Resurrection (they didn’t have Halloween H20).
Parts 1 & 2 were alright, obviously in the seventies it didn’t take much to get an R rating, just the hint of violence or a tiny spray of fake blood seemed to be enough. Anyone who has seen the Halloween series will know that part 2 begins literally where part 1 ended, it takes off on the same night, same characters and continues the story.
Then you have Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch, it's absolutely terrible. Some not-so-bright spark decided to take it to another level, no...another building, no...another planet! It has nothing to do with the first two movies or the original characters, the only similarity I could see was it was set on and around Halloween.
The movies then take a turn into the new millennium and the violence and gore factors are stepped up a few notches. Add in a few teenagers, a rapper and a supermodel and Halloween Resurrection is an entertaining gore-filled ride.
Rob Zombie has gained a reputation for lots of blood, realistic violence and gore (see House of 1000 Corpses & The Devils Rejects for examples). It will be interesting to see what he does to this horror classic.
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Comment by Winston
Small Thoughts on Big Questions
But who knows? Perhaps he'll pull a rabbit out of a hat here and create a remake worthy of the original (something that almost never happens with any film. It's a tall order). We shall see.