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2007 |
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REMAKE
HORROR
SERIES
PREQUEL
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109 |
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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This remake which is, apparently, too horrible to be shown to critics but good enough to be foisted on the public is Rob Zombie’s version of Halloween. Keeping it away from merciless critical hyenas such as myself may, of course, have been intended as a kindness towards poor old Malcolm McDowell, who takes over from the late Donald Pleasance as the dismally inept child psychologist who fails to turn Michael Myers into the sort of serial-killer you could take home to mother.
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The first half-hour is a corpse-ridden canter through Myers’ abused childhood; the rest is a risible remake of John Carpenter’s first movie. Whereas the 1978 original was chillingly suspenseful, the remake is an unimaginative gore-fest. Like Mr Zombie’s previous bloodbaths, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, it offers a brutal, gross-out, deliberately debased version of horror, with much emphasis on trailer-trash misbehaving homicidally. It’s The Jerry Springer Show as a splatter movie. |
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, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane (pictured left)