Here, McDowell’s Loomis is a good man initially. In the original film(s), Loomis is an underrated psychiatrist whose knowledge of evil, and particularly that of Michael, is unparalleled. The whole character of Loomis is much different from that of Donald Pleasence’s version, and of course that’s mostly the way it’s written. Like a post-modern version of Carpenter and Hill’s classic, early slasher. Michael kills the men and then begins on a path of destruction carrying him back towards Haddonfield, where his reign of terror is about to begin. They rape a female patient after bringing her into Michael’s room, when Noel underestimates the now 27-year-old man. He and his equally disgusting hillbilly cousin take advantage of having keys to the place. Only after 17 years go by, an older Michael gets a visit from a new, less friendly orderly by the name of Noel Kluggs (Lew Temple). There’s also orderly Ismael Cruz (Danny Trejo) who talks to the boy often, trying to relate with him. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) picks his brain to try and determine why evil lies in such a young mind. The law puts Michael in an institution, where Dr. On Halloween night, Michael kills Ronnie, then Judith and her boyfriend. Then once a kid at school finally pushes him over the edge, Michael beats him to death in the woods. But at home, alone, Michael dissects animals, getting blood all over his hands. At school, Michael gets pushed around and harassed, specifically about his mother being a stripper at a local club. Although his mother Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie) loves him, her sleazy boyfriend Ronnie White (William Forsythe) treats him like shit, all the while sizing up Debbie’s daughter Judith (Hanna Hall). Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) is a young boy with a fairly awful life day to day. No matter if the original is my favourite, and a perfect piece of horror cinema, Zombie brings savagery to the table, plus an interesting style of directing. But for me, Carpenter and Zombie both have their merits. Although many want to try and pick one over the other, they’re different movies, different stories centered around the same characters. Switch the subtle techniques of Carpenter for a throwback aesthetic mixed with gritty realism, and you’ve got Zombie’s film in a nutshell. Now, he is a boy with a face, a child not just hidden behind a mask, who eventually grows into his skin and becomes the ugliest, most vicious serial killer in America (well, the fictional one anyways). No more is Myers so much a force of evil, like some wandering, unkillable spirit. Instead of providing lackluster jump scares and unnecessary gore to overcompensate, Zombie crafts a new vision of Michael Myers. He’s given the keys to the slasher horror castle here, reinterpreting the original screenplay for Halloween in 1978 from John Carpenter and Debra Hill. He always appeared imaginative, but I couldn’t have guessed his love of the horror genre ran so deep. I never imagined, listening to White Zombie in the ’90s, that Rob Zombie would go on to be one of my favourite horror directors working. Dimension Films/Nightfall Productions/Spectacle Entertainment Group/Trancas International Films/The Weinstein Company. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Richard Lynch, Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Danny Trejo, Lew Temple, Tom Towles, Bill Moseley, & Leslie Easterbrook. Directed & Written by Rob Zombie based on the original screenplay by John Carpenter & Debra Hill.
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