[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Of course Rob Zombie's Halloween sucked, it was a remake of a great movie. Almost all remakes of initially good (or better) movies tend to suck. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake stands out as one I really disapprove of, I love the 1974 original as a staple of the genre. The remake was, besides unnecessary, stupid. I'll grant the effects and gore were better but that should be expected from the time gap, yet the original felt more realistic and had a sense of psychological terror with its violence. Trying to humanize Leatherface is also a dumb idea, too many horror remakes try to generate sympathy for the bad guy.

There are a few things I need to touch base on in this post.

1. Rob Zombie's Halloween was the first Halloween movie I ever saw, so I had no prior knowledge of what the Halloween series was like before. All I know is that the movie sucked then when I first saw it in theater in 2007, and it still sucks. It is pretty much The Devil's Rejects with Michael Myers, and I thought TDR sucked.

2. Not all remakes are bad. The Manchurian Candidate remake is just as good as the original. The original is more creative, but the remake does it in a more realistic manner. Plus, the True Grit remake was superior to the original. Also, the Friday the 13th remake is what got me into watching the series.

3. I saw the TCM remake when it first came to DVD and liked it. It also happen to come out shortly after I finished my third playthrough of RE4, so having a chainsaw wielding maniac was awesome. I saw the original for the first time earlier this year at the Alamo Drafthouse. It is a good movie, but honestly, I expected more out of it. It has great moments, I love the way the movie is shot, and the night time scenes are fantastic, but again, I was expecting more out of it. I think both the remake and the original are on equal ground.

4. Back to the Halloween remake, as a remake, your issue with the TCM remake is also my issue with Halloween. The original told all we needed to know about Michael in its first 6 minutes and made Michael out to be a supernatural being in a man's body. Not just that, but I loved the idea that he goes after Lauri just because she stepped on his doorstep (since there was no sister aspect at that time). The remake spends about an hour turning Michael into this kid with a shitty life and that is what made him go crazy. He is no longer evil just because he is evil, he is evil because his environment raised him to be that way. Also, the ending just flat out sucks. Even before I saw the original the ending was terrible here because there is no ending, the movie just stops. The original might have had that open endedness to it, but it symbolized that Michael might not have really been a human, as depicted in Loomis' face. In Zombie's version, Lauri shoots him in the head and screams, credits roll. There was nothing to give the ending a sense of mystery.