Halloween is a 2007 American slasher movie written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. This film is a remake/reimagining of the 1978 horror film of the same name; the first in the rebel Halloween movie series and the ninth installment of the Halloween franchise. Movie star Tyler Mane as adult Michael Myers, Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Sam Loomis, and Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode; Daeg Faerch plays a ten-year-old Michael Myers. "The new concept" Rob Zombie follows the original premise of John Carpenter, with Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode and his friends on Halloween night. The Zombie movie goes deeper into the character's soul, trying to answer the question of what drives her to kill people, while in the original movie Carpenter Michael has no explicit reason to kill.
Working from Carpenter's suggestion to "make [the film] his own," Zombie chose to develop the movie as both a prequel and a remake, allowing for more original content rather than just re-recording the same scene. Although most of the negative reviews, the movie, which cost $ 15 million to make, grossed $ 80,208,039 worldwide, making it the highest grossing film in the unadjusted US dollar franchise in Halloween . Zombies followed the film with a sequel, Halloween II , in 2009.
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Plot
At Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, for showing signs of psychopathic tendencies, ten years of Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) of school bullies (Daryl Sabara), his sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), her boyfriend Steve (Adam Weisman), and his mother's girlfriend is Ronnie (William Forsythe). Only her baby sister, Angel Myers, is spared. After one of the longest attempts in state history, Michael was found guilty of first-degree murder and sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of a child psychologist. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).
Michael originally worked with Loomis, claiming no memory of murder; his mother Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), visits her regularly. Over the next year, Michael becomes fixated on the papier-mÃÆ'Â ¢ chÃÆ'Â © mask and withdraws from everyone around him, even his mother. When Michael kills a nurse because Debora is away from one of her visits, she can not handle the situation and commit suicide.
Over the next fifteen years, Michael (Tyler Mane) continues to make masks and does not speak to anyone. Loomis, who has continued to treat Michael for years, decides to go ahead and close Michael's case. Later, Michael escapes from Smith's Grove, killing sanitarium employees in the process. He killed a truck driver for his clothes, and returned to Haddonfield. On Halloween, Michael arrives at his abandoned childhood home, where he finds a kitchen knife and Halloween mask he kept under the floorboards the night he killed his sister.
Meanwhile, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) and her friends Annie Brackett (Danielle Harris) and Lynda Van Der Klok (Kristina Klebe) prepare for Halloween. All day long, Laurie watches Michael watching her from a distance. That night, Laurie went to take care of Tommy Doyle (Skyler Gisondo). Meanwhile, Lynda meets up with her boyfriend, Bob Simms (Nick Mennell) at Michael's abandoned home. Michael appears, kills them, and then heads to Strode's house, where he kills Laurie's parents, Mason (Pat Skipper) and Cynthia (Dee Wallace). Dr. Loomis, who had been informed of Michael's escape, arrived at Haddonfield looking for Michael. After getting the gun, Loomis tries to warn Sheriff Leigh Brackett (Brad Dourif) that Michael has returned to Haddonfield. Loomis and Brackett head for Strode's house, with Brackett explaining along the way that Laurie is really Michael's baby sister, who had been adopted by Strodes after her mother committed suicide.
Meanwhile, Annie convinces Laurie to take care of Lindsey Wallace (Jenny Gregg Stewart) so she can meet her boyfriend, Paul (Max Van Ville). Annie and Paul return to Wallace's house and have sex; Michael killed Paul and attacked Annie. Bringing Lindsey home, Laurie finds Annie on the floor, badly wounded but still alive, and calls the police. Michael attacked Laurie and chased him back to Doyle's house. Loomis and Brackett heard 911 on radio and headed for Wallace's residence.
Michael kidnaps Laurie and takes her back to their old house. She tries to show Laurie that she is his sister, displaying their pictures with their mother. Not understanding, Laurie stabbed Michael before running away from home; Michael chases after him, but Loomis arrives and shoots him. Healed, Michael caught Laurie before she could go and return home. Loomis again intervened, but Michael lowered him. Laurie picked up Loomis's gun and ran upstairs, but Michael cornered her on the balcony and attacked her, knocking them both over the fence. Laurie found herself on top of an unconscious Michael. Directing Loomis's gun to his face, he fired right as Michael awoke.
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Production
On June 4, 2006, Dimension announced that Rob Zombie, the director of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, would create the next installment in Halloween . The plan is for Zombies to hold many positions in production; he will write, direct, produce, and serve as a music superintendent. Bob Weinstein approached him about making movies. Zombie, who is an original fan of Halloween and a friend of John Carpenter, jumped at the opportunity to make a Halloween movie for Dimension Studios. Before Dimension went public with the news, Zombie felt obliged to inform Carpenter, in honor of the plans to re-create the movie. Carpenter's request is for Zombies to "make it yourself". During an interview June 16, 2006, Zombie announced that his film would combine elements of prequel and remake with original concepts, and insisted that there would be considerable original content in the new film as opposed to mere rehashed material. The BBC reports that the new movie will ignore the sequel which followed Halloween .
Zombie's intention is to rediscover Michael Myers because, in his opinion, the characters, along with Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Pinhead, have become more familiar to the audience, and as a result, less daunting. The idea behind this new movie is to dig deeper into Michael's story and add a "new life" to the character. Michael's mask will be given his own story, to give an explanation why he is wearing it, instead of having a character just stealing a random mask from a hardware store, as in the original movie. Zombie explains that he wants Michael to be true what the real psychopath is, and wants the mask to be a way for Michael to hide. He also wants young Michael to have charisma, which will be projected onto adult Michael. In addition, he decides that Michael's motive for returning to Haddonfield will be more ambiguous, explaining, "[W] when he tried to kill Laurie, or just find her because he loves her?"
In addition, Michael will not be able to drive in a new movie, unlike his 1978 counterpart who stole Loomis's car so he can return to Haddonfield. Dr. Character Loomis must also be more related to Michael; Zombies argue that the character's role in the original is "to come up just to say something dramatic". Although Zombie adds more history to the character of Michael Myers, thus creating more original content for the film, he chooses to retain the trademark mask of characters and Carpenter theme songs intact for his version (although there is a misinterpretation in an interview that shows that the theme it will be discarded). Official production began on January 29, 2007. Shortly before production began, Zombie reported that he had seen Michael's first mask production and commented, "It looks perfect, just like the original." Not since 1978, The Shape looks so good. The filming took place in the same neighborhood that Carpenter used for the original Halloween .
On December 19, 2006, Zombie announced to Bloody-Disgusting that Daeg Faerch would play the role of ten-year-old Michael Myers. On December 22, 2006, Malcolm McDowell was officially announced to play Dr. Loomis. McDowell stated that he wanted an extraordinary ego in Loomis, who came out to get a new book from the ordeal. On December 24, 2006, Zombie announced that Tyler Mane, who previously worked with Zombie on The Devil's Rejects, would portray the adult of Michael Myers. Mane states that it is very difficult to act only with his eyes. Scout Taylor-Compton has a long audition process, but as Zombie's director explains, "Scout is my first choice, there's just something about him, he has original qualities, he does not look actor-y." He was one of the last people to be selected for the lead role after Faerch, Mane, McDowell, Forsythe, and Harris. The contest was held for a walk-on role in the movie, at a time called Halloween 9 ; won by Heather Bowen. He plays a news reporter covering Michael's capture, but the scene is cut from the movie and does not appear in the deleted scene.
Release
About four days before the release of the movie theater, the workplace version of Halloween appeared online and circulated on various BitTorrent sites. After hearing a leaked copy, Zombie stated that whatever version has been leaked is an old version of the movie, unlike what will be released in theaters. Zombie's leakage led to speculation that the box office's success could be damaged, as director Eli Roth attributed the film's financial failure, Host: Part II , to a leaked version of the print. Dark Horizons webmaster Garth Franklin notes that watching a workprint allows viewers to see what changed after the screening of a movie in June 2007. For example, one particular scene - the rape of one of Smith's Grove female prisoners - was replaced in the final version. Halloween was officially released on August 31, 2007, to 3,472 theaters in North America, giving it the widest release of any of the previous Halloween movies.
Reception
box office
On its opening day, Halloween grossed $ 10,896,610, and immediately surpassed the opening weekend grosses for Halloween II (1981) at $ 7,446,508, Witch's Season 1982) at $ 6,333,259, The Return of Michael Myers (1988) at $ 6,831,250, The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) at $ 5,093,428, and the < Myers (1995) at $ 7,308,529. From September 1-2, Halloween earned $ 8,554,661 and $ 6,911,096, respectively, for a total 3-day opening weekend of $ 26,362,367. The film will earn an additional $ 4,229,392 on Labor Day for a gross 4-day weekend of $ 30,591,759, making it the highest for the holiday. As a result, the 2007 film will soon surpass the gross box office total for Halloween II (1981) at $ 25,533,818, Halloween III (1982) at $ 14,400,000, Halloween 4 (1988) at $ 17,768,757, Halloween 5 (1989) at $ 11,642,254, Michael Myers Curse (1995) at $ 15,116,634, and Halloween: Resurrection (2002) with $ 30,354,442.
After the first Friday after its opening weekend, Halloween saw a 71.6% drop in attendance, earning $ 3,093,679. The film, which took the # 1 spot at the box office on its opening weekend, earned only $ 9,513,770 in the second weekend - a 63.9% drop - but still claimed the # 2 spot in the box office just behind 3: 10 to Yuma . The film continues to appear in the top ten weekends entering the third weekend, when it gets $ 4,867,522 to take sixth place. Not until the weekend the movie fell from the top ten and became twelve with $ 2,189,266. Halloween will fail to regain the top ten spots in the box office for the rest of the theater run.
Thanks to the opening weekend of $ 30.5 million, the film broke the box-office record for Labor Day weekend, exceeding a record made in 2005 by Transporter 2 with $ 20.1 million. It is still at this time as the Labor Day's dirty weekend. Halloween was also the 8th best-selling R-rated movie of 2007, and finished this year at 44th place for gross domestic boxes. With a $ 58 million gross box office, Halloween was the second best-selling movie among recent remake slasher, taken over by A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) for $ 63 million. However, the third in the list comprises When Calling Foreign People (2006) at $ 47.8 million, Black Christmas (2006) for $ 16.3 million, Prom Night (2008) for $ 43.8 million, My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) for $ 51.4 million, and Friday the 13th (2009) with $ 60 million. Halloween also ranks as a whole eleventh when comparing it with all the horror remakes, as well as the eighth place for all slasher films in general, in an unmodified dollar.
In addition to the North American movie box office, it opens with Michael Clayton and . Woodcock in the overseas market on the weekend of September 29, 2007. Halloween leads the trio with a total of $ 1.3 million in 372 theaters - Michael Clayton and Sir. Woodcock took $ 1.2 million from 295 screens and $ 1 million from 238 screens, respectively. On November 1, 2007, Halloween has taken an additional $ 7 million in overseas markets. In the end, the film will generate about $ 21,981,879 overseas. At the end of the screening, the film has totaled $ 80,253,908 worldwide. Comparing this film with the rest of the film in the series Halloween , Zombie remakes are the best-selling movies in US dollars that are not adjusted. When adjusting for inflation in 2009, Zombie Critical response
Based on the 109 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Halloween received an average 25% overall approval rating based on 110 reviews, with consensus "Rob Zombie did not bring many new ideas to the table on Halloween, making it a disappointment another for franchise enthusiasts. "For comparison, Metacritic, who gave a weighted average score of 100 reviews of major criticism, counted 47 out of 100 of 18 reviews collected. The CinemaScore poll reported that the average movie theater gave the film "B-" on a scale A to F; It also reported that 62% of the audience were male, with 57% being 25 years or older.
Peter Hartlaub, of the San Francisco Chronicle, feels Zombie succeeds in both "putting his own spin on Halloween, while at the same time paying homage to the movie Carpenter"; he thought Zombie managed to make Michael Myers almost "sympathetic" as a child, but the final third of the movie seemed more like a montage of scenes with Halloween sneaking into the "slasher-film logic". Nathan Lee of The Village Voice disagreed some with Harlaub, feeling that Halloween might have put too much emphasis on sympathizing with Michael Myers, but it did work in "[deep] The carpenter's vision without eradicating his fear ". Film critic Matthew Turner believes the first half of the film, which features Michael's prequel element as a child, is better played than a second-round remake element. In short, Turner stated that the performance of the cast was "outstanding", with Malcolm McDowell perfectly functioning as Dr. Loomis, but the movie did not have the original scare value of Carpenter. Jamie Russell of the BBC agrees that the first half of the film works better than the last half; he claimed that Zombie expanded his backstory on Michael "very effectively" - also agreed that McDowell perfectly acted as Loomis - but that Zombie failed to convey the "magic fears" that Carpenter made to Michael in 1978 originally.
New York Daily News critic Jack Matthews believes the film has no tension, and goes over for cheap surprises - focusing more on improving "violent imagery" - than a real effort to frighten audiences; he gave the movie one and a half stars out of five. Dennis Harvey, from Variety Magazine, echoed Matthew's view that the film failed to convey the tension; he also feels that you can not tell one teenage character from the next, whereas in the original Carpenter's every teen has a real personality. Instead, Rossiter Drake of The Examiner praised Michael's backstory, feeling that it was a "unique" and "shocking" mythical "takeover" at the same time. In accordance with other criticisms, Empire magazine Kim Newman feels that, because Zombies seem to focus less on adolescents who are being followed and killed by Michael, the film "flat" when it comes to giving tension or anything "scary scary "; Newman praised McDowell for his role as a "persistent psychiatrist". Ben Walter, from Time Out London, found Zombie adding "shocking realism" to Michael's psychopathic development, but agreed with Newman that the director replaces the original "tension and play" movie with a convincing look of "brutality bloody black ".
Frank Scheck, of The Hollywood Reporter , believes that although the Zombie remake of Carpenter's
Halloween won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Picture 2007, drew 550 votes, the most ever in the awards history. The film also won the 'Best Remake Award' at the 2008 Spike TV Scream Awards. And Mathews, PETA's vice president, sent Rob Zombie a thank-you letter for what he perceived as a Zombie sending a message to the audience when he portrayed young Michael Myers torturing animals, something he feels suggests that people who commit cruelty to animals tend to switch to humans. Mathews continued, "Hopefully, with focusing attention on your film on the relationship between animal cruelty and human violence, more people will recognize the warning signals among people they know and deal with them more strongly. We hope you continue to succeed ! "
Home media
The film's soundtrack was released on August 21, 2007; it includes 24 tracks, consisting of 12 tracks and 12 instrumental tracks. This album contains new songs, as well as ones recycled from the original Halloween and the sequel. Tyler Bates's interpretation of John Carpenter's original theme Halloween was the first musical song, with "Reaper's" (Do not Fear), "which appeared in the original Halloween," and "Mr. Sandman, "which appeared on Halloween II and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, performed by Nan Vernon. Writing about his choice of the 1981 film, one reviewer for the BBC commented that it worked well to "emulate Laurie's situation (sleeping a lot)", making "lyrics that sound innocent looking threatening in a horror movie". The album also includes Kiss's God of Thunder, Rush Tom Sawyer, Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed", Peter Frampton "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Love Hurts" Nazareth, Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Let It Ride", Misfits' "Halloween II", and Iggy Pop's live version of The Stooges' "1969" among others.
On December 18, 2007, the film was released on DVD in the United States; both theatrical (110 minutes) and the non-negotiating director piece (121 minutes) were released as a special two-disc edition containing an identical bonus feature. The film was released on DVD in the UK on April 28, 2008, known as the "Not Cut" edition. On October 7, 2008, a set of three disks was released. The Collector's edition of Halloween features the same bonus as the previously un-unrated edition, but includes a documentary "creation" of a Zombie documentary similar to the "Days of Hell" documentary for Zombie's The Devil's Rejects .
References
External links
- Official website
- Halloween on IMDb
- Halloween in Box Office Mojo
- Halloween at Rotten Tomatoes
- Halloween in Metacritic
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