Movie Review for Halloween

Summary: A new take on the legend and a new chapter in the Michael Myers "Halloween" saga.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (7/0)
            Zombie and company give us the proverbial razor blade in the apple with another crappy horror rem...

By Rebecca Murray of About.com (7/0)
            There's no suspense, not a single jump-out-of-your-seat moment

By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (7/0)
            I won't make the case that Halloween is anything other than a well-crafted slasher film....

By Tim Brayton of Antagony & Ecstasy (7/0)
            If it wasn't a remake of Halloween, Halloween might have been pretty awesome.

By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            There's plenty of slicing and dicing here, and a few moments of tension toward the end, but this ...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
            Finally we know why homicidal maniac Michael Myers wears a mask. Straight-up embarrassment.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Christopher Smith of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/0)
            Chokes the life out of a classic--and then runs it hard into the business end of a butcher knife.

By Tom Russo of Boston Globe (7/0)
            ...as a sensory experience, the redo is flat.

By Bryant Frazer of Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (7/0)
            Rob Zombie is a big ol' cinephile who lacks the chops to execute on the screen everything that's ...

By Fred Topel of Can Magazine (7/0)
            If they can't top Busta Rhymes kung fu-ing Michael Meyers, there's really no point. Yes, that's t...

By Jeff Otto of cinemaobsession.com (7/0)
            Have you ever been driving down the road and a song you know starts to play on the radio? Wait a ...

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            Once it steps into a remake of the Carpenter film in its second half, it loses its seriousness.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            How disappointing to see a film as callous, noisy and stupid as any of the other horror remakes t...

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
            By making the film more graphic, Zombie has also made it considerably less scary and effective th...

By Danny Baldwin of Dread Central (7/0)
            First draft script review

By Johnny Butane of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with PJ Soles, the original Lynda, talking about Rob Zombie's Hal...

By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Kathleen Kinmont of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers...

By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Rob Zombie, talking about his new Halloween.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Tyle Mane, the new Michael Myers, talking about Rob Zombie's...

By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Dee Wallace, the new Cynthia Strode, talking about Rob Zombi...

By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (6/1)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Danielle Harris, the new Annie Brackett, talking about Rob Z...

By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Charles Cyphers, the original Sheriff Leigh Brackett, talkin...

By Uncle Creepy of Dread Central (7/0)
            Listen to the podcast interview with Kristina Klebe, the new Lynda in Rob Zombie's Halloween

By Alex Markerson of E! Online (7/0)
            Check your calendar, and then cross out Halloween--at least for this year.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Brian Orndorf of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            A scrappy, semi-brilliant reawakening of a fabulous horror icon, and the best part about it? No B...

By Peter Sobczynski of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            It was probably asking too much to hope that Zombie would come up with a film that would live up ...

By Vince Koehler of Entertainment Spectrum (7/0)
            What an insult to John Carpenter's classic. This Halloween movie will have you screaming, but not...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            Zombie's version offers an extended prologue that fills in the formative days of Myers' psychosis...

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            If Rob Zombie ever decides to direct a horror movie, watch out.

By Ethan Alter of Film Journal International (7/0)
            Just a footnote to another film's legacy.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Mark Bell of Film Threat (7/0)
            Save the first two Halloween films, Zombie's take is the best film of the franchise. That's not s...

By Jason Morgan of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            ...should motivate the new generation of horror fans to seek out John Carpenter's original with t...

By Josh Green of FirstShowing.net (7/0)
            Comic-Con Video Interview with writer/director ROB ZOMBIE on Halloween.

By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            The original is better. You know it. I know it. Rob Zombie knows it. Can we leave it at that and ...

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (7/0)
            John Carpenter can rest easy; any self-respecting horror fan will forget this film even exists by...

By Chuck O'Leary of FulvueDrive-in.com (7/0)
            Hideous beyond words ... Zombie has made the white-trash scuzbucket version of Halloween in which...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Jason Anderson of Globe and Mail (7/0)
            The most depressing thing of all is that Michael will likely survive even this dire endeavour.

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Phil Parmet: On the Set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Exclusive On-Camera: Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Scout Taylor-Compton.

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Tyler Mane: On the set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Malcolm McDowell: On the set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Anthony Tremblay: On the set

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Scout Taylor-Compton: On the set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Exclusive On-Camera Interview: Malcolm McDowell

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Wayne Toth: On the set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Exclusive On-Camera Interview: Rob Zombie

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Rawn Hutchinson: On the set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            I went into the theater looking for a Rob Zombie film and not necessarily a Halloween movie. I go...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Malak Akkad: On the set

By Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (7/0)
            Rob Zombie: On the set

By Todd Gilchrist of IGN Movies (7/0)
            Halloween is about graphic brutality and absolutely nothing more.

By David Schmeichel of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            More of a Valentine to the original than a recycled cash-grab.

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (7/0)
            Halloween has everything you could want in an updated slasher movie, as long as you're not a homi...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            So bad it aspires to the height of utter pointlessness that was Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Pete Hammond of Maxim (7/0)
            This story has been told at least four times too many already!

By Matt Pais of Metromix.com (7/0)
            Zombie humanizes the killer only to turn him into the same slow-moving monster, adding nothing to...

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/0)
            Carpenter's original, a series of brilliant joy-buzzer jolts, treated the horror as a dark pop jo...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            Halloween manages to combine the weaknesses of both of Zombie's previous movies, while rarely tap...

By Kevin A. Ranson of MovieCrypt.com (7/0)
            ... Rob Zombie's Halloween shines as a tribute to the slasher genre instead of proof of its passi...

By Sara M. Fetters of MovieFreak.com (7/0)
            The Rebirth of Michael Meyers - Rob Zombie Talks About the Pressure of Tackling a Horror Icon

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (7/0)
            The original Halloween was about Jamie Lee Curtis in danger up to her knee socks. And for socks, ...

By Joseph Proimakis of Movies for the Masses (7/0)
            click for teaser and review

By Larry Carroll of MTV (7/0)
            Rob Zombie reveals his villain's mind to MTV

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Just the latest misguided attempt to recycle an old horror classic, replacing suspense and a sens...

By Roger Moore of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
            Rob Zombie's Halloween remake isn't scary, which is really all you need to know about it.

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Zombie's vision is a misguided effort to be all splatter.

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Stefan Halley of Pop Syndicate (7/0)
            Kristina Klebe talks about Halloween.

By Bill Gibron of PopMatters (7/0)
            Halloween is brilliant. It's a stroke of slice and dice genius.

By Rob Humanick of Projection Booth (7/0)
            Halloween 2007 externalizes all that was internal in the original.

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            Abhorrent.

By Jim Hemphill of Reel.com (7/0)
            Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's Halloween is neither the blasphemous affront hardcore fan...

By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            ...a sometimes thoughtful reimagining...also plodding and brutal rather than horrific. The leaner...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            ...not a good movie...

By Fred Topel of Rotten Tomatoes (7/0)
            Giamatti Talks Dirty Funny Superbeasto

By Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (7/0)
            A Week of Reshoots on Zombie's "Halloween"

By Tim Ryan of Rotten Tomatoes (7/0)
            Total Recall: Halloween Director Rob Zombie's Favorites

By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
            Zombie seems to want to explain Myers' evil. But any explanation would be unsatisfactory, and dul...

By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Even if you consider a Halloween remake sacrilege, you've got to like a truck stop bathroom that'...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Zombie puts his own spin on Halloween, while at the same time paying tribute to Carpenter's f...

By Edward Douglas of ShockTillYouDrop.com (7/0)
            Fans will be chomping at the bit waiting for the slaughter to begin ... it's hard not to walk awa...

By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Rob Zombie's gut understanding of what makes '70s horror so great is unfortunately glimpsed in on...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
            This so-called reinvention doesn't cut it by a long shot. It is a foul-mouthed, soulless, low-ren...

By Frank Ochieng of TheWorldJournal.com (7/0)
            ...blood-spilling banality...the sensationalism behind Zombie's directorial demeanor is merely a ...

By Bruce Demara of Toronto Star (7/0)
            Trick or treat? Rob Zombie's "re-imagining" of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween mus...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            [It] will come as a welcome relief to fans who've diligently sat through seven Halloween sequels ...

By Dennis Harvey of Variety (7/0)
            The best that can be said about Rob Zombie's Halloween remake is that he makes it his own, though...

By Richard Harrington of Washington Post (7/0)
            Contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the boo...

By Prairie Miller of WBAI Web Radio (7/0)
            Many ambitious moviemakers have recklessly tread on John Carpenter's seriously hallowed ground an...

By Staci Layne Wilson of About.com (6/1) No reference
            Special set visit report, with interviews.

By Annlee Ellingson of Boxoffice Magazine (6/1) No reference
            Adeptly packaged in all facets of production, Halloween is nicely cast with a combination of Zomb...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Andrea Gronvall of Chicago Reader (6/1) No reference
            The set-up is tediously slow, while the later murders are packed so tightly it's like watching a ...

By Devin Faraci of CHUD (6/1) No reference
            Halloween is, objectively speaking and without thinking about the original, a crummy film. As a r...

By John Monaghan of Detroit Free Press (3/4) No reference
            With Halloween out of his system, maybe Zombie will get back to what he does best: fashioning sem...

By Adam Graham of Detroit News (6/1) No reference
            Michael Myers is back. And no, you still shouldn't care.

By Danny Baldwin of Dread Central (3/4) No reference
            Dread Central Video interview with Rob Zombie & Cast from Comic Con 2007

By Scott Weinberg of FEARnet (6/1) No reference
            Pick the lamest Halloween sequel out there and you've just found a better movie than this one. At...

                         Reviews of Halloween
By Beth Accomando of KPBS.org (6/1) No reference
            The original and the remake need to stand alone and apart, and Zombie's film has merits of its ow...

By Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly (6/1) No reference
            Unfortunately, what makes Michael tick doesn't turn out to be all that interesting.

By Matt Zoller Seitz of New York Times (6/1) No reference
            Michael¿s escape from the asylum and his knife-wielding, door-smashing progress through his old ...

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (4/3) Not Reachable
            I was hoping for greatness from Rob Zombie's Halloween, but got pretty-goodness, instead.

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