Halloween (2007)
By 2007, a host of classic horror movies had been given the
remake treatment. A small few
were worthwhile (Dawn of the
Dead, The Hills Have Eyes), many
were pointless (The Texas Chain
Saw Massacre, Psycho), but most
were just plain awful (The Fog,
The Amityville Horror). Fans of
John Carpenter braced themselves for the inevitable remake
of his 1978 classic, and when it
was announced that Rob Zombie would write and direct, the
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prospects looked bleak. With his
previous films, House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, the rock-star turned director had shown no evidence that
he could come remotely close
to making anything resembling
an involving motion picture. Few
were surprised when his Halloween turned out to be a cinematic
travesty.
Though he’s improved since, at
the time Zombie was no more
a film-maker than Spielberg is a
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