It’s difficult to review Halloween as it’s arguably not just a film, but rather the definitive stab at a brand new horror sub-genre: the slasher flick. Since 1978 it’s had sequels of varying quality (although none of them really attain a level beyond “adequate” or “guilty pleasure”), many imitators and a remake by rocker/director Rob [...]
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Rob Zombie’s Halloween Review (Updated)
This 2007 remake of the 1978 classic confirms a few things: 1) Rob Zombie can direct effective and wince-inducing hardcore horror without the camp trimmings of House of 1000 Corpses or the misguided antihero road movie rape-and-kill romp that was The Devil’s Rejects. 2) However Zombie should not write his movies, especially a remake of one of [...]
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