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Halloween Description:
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6300 in Movie
- Released on: 2010-03-18
- Running time: 122 minutes
Customer Reviews:
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The original Halloween is a classic and will in my book always receive a five star rating. Recently there has been a great deal of remakes that were flops and catered to the teeny bopper crowd such as, The Fog, The Omen, Dark Water, etc. However there has been only two remakes that I thought were diserving of our attenion, one being the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, and Halloween.
What I liked about the remake was it gave us something fresh to work with. In the original Halloween we never really knew why Michael was bad, in this remake, the first thirty minutes or so expore the childhood of Michael Myers. People say that the dialog concerning Michael’s family was wrong. Trust me, I have seen broken homes and Mr. Zombie gives us exactly what you would expect from a trashy family.
Besides satisfying my curiosity of Michael’s childhood, I found this to be similar in many cases to the original, but at the same time the material was quite fresh with new chills and scares. Zombie took a masterpiece and reminded us why it is called a masterpiece. He accomplished a great job capturing a 70′s look and theme, and did a great musical score as well. This is possibly the best horror remake that I’ve ever seen.
A Remake That Should NEVER Have Been Made…
First of all, this film is so shallow, cliched, and tired I don’t even know where to begin. Zombie somehow manages to take a beloved classic (which was so good to begin with that it didn’t ned to be remade in the first place) and destroy just about everything great about it.
Where to begin? The dialogue is incredibly insipid, crass, and totally unbelievable. The characters are thinner and more one-dimensional than a piece of white paper, and the motivations are absolutely straight out of a “how to make a B-movie” manual. The Michael Myers backstory is so cliched that it’s laughable; he comes from a seriously dysfunctional household with an abusive/alcoholic father, a stripper mother who is barely hanging on to life, and a cruel, whore sister. Therefore, poor Michael becomes a serial killer! Makes sense, right? Not really…but, Zombie would like to fool people into thinking it does.
The three heroines from the original are back in the form of Anie, Linda, and of course, beloved Laurie. Except these three girls are transformed from charming, wonderful, smart-alecky (in a cute way) girls into obnoxious, mean-spirited, vacuous, shallow twits who we can’t even begin to care about. Even Laurie herself fails to elicit much sympathy or empathy from the audience due to her being just plain stupid and rather, as I said before, obnoxious.
Loomis is transformed from a venerable, noble, and sympathetic Doctor into an egocentric, clueless, simpleton. One can’t feel any respect or identification with him either.
Finally, there’s Michael himself. In this incarnation, Michael turns from a child into a hulking behemoth…a 6 foot 8 inch bulking monster of a man. Where’s the suspense, horror, mystery, fright, or aura of terror in this idea? I won’t delve deeply into the “what makes Michael work” argument…but, making him 8′ 9″ tall and built like a Hummer does NOT show basic comprehension for what made Michael such a legendary terror to begin with. If bigger = scarier…why not just turn him into a 12′ 8″ cyborg fashioned out of the remains of other serial killers and Nazi tanks? Turning Myers into the Hulk doesn’t make him scarier per se. In fact, it has the opposite effect because it’s too obvious, lazy and cliched. Everyone is expected to be scared of a HUGE man in a mask…but think of it this way. Real life serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy were “normal” guys. They appeared “normal” on the exterior and were also “normal” sized; but they were absolutely evil and some accounts also say they possessed inhuman strength. You wouldn’t expect that from people who just look like they are the “guy next door”. And THAT’S what makes them so scary. You would expect a 6’8″ hulking monster to be superhumanly strong…but you would absolutely NOT expect a man who stands just above 6 feet to be a completely indestructible force of nature. Sure, Zombie’s version is more obvious…but that’s also why it’s so much less scary to some people. There’s no mystery and no subtlety to Zombie’s Myers, we expect exactly what we get. And therein lies the problem. The original Myers had a quiet stealth and mystery to him that was truly disturbing; Nick Castle didn’t simply walk while wearing the mask…he glided. He moved smoothly and efficiently, like a shark. And because of his “normal” stature, it made it even scarier when he performed superhuman feats of strength and stamina.
When I first saw the film, I wasn’t sure whether or not to blame most of my dislikes on the actors…but then I realized, they were doing their best given the material they had to work with. The fault lies with the director/writer for even putting such trash to paper in the first place.
Naturally, when this film was announced and the director revealed, audiences shouldn’t have expected a shot-for-shot remake of the original. But, audiences WERE expecting a film with intelligence, style, and a basic comprehension and respect for what made “Halloween” work in the first place. Zombie showed NONE of those things. Instead he caters to the average IQ level of the reality-TV-slurping cro-magnons who have the attention span and aesthetic sensibility of a pre-schooler. He took a great idea, a masterpiece of horror and dumbed it down…stripped it of it’s mystery and subtlety, and thus its effectiveness…and layered it with white-trash characters, foul-mouthed and crass teens that are unlikeable, and poured buckets of blood on it; he made it more “today”. That’s NOT necessarily a good thing.
Halloween Remake…A Fresh Look…
I don’t know why everyone is bashing this film, but I am a die-hard fan of the Halloween movies and the horror genre, and I thought this movie was a nice remake to the best and original Carpenter film. It’s certainly more entertaining than the crappy sequels that previously came out, and this film sets a more serious and modern harsh reality of what it could be like if this happened today. Carpenter’s original film took place in 1978, so I found it to be a nice homage for Zombie to begin the origins of young Michael Myers in 1978. For the first time, we actually get to see what kind of family and childhood that Michael grew up in, which explains so much to his psychotic condition. As a child, Michael’s facsination with torturing and killing innocent animals presents an accurate profile for such a future serial killer. This film actually has some explanations behind it, which is vacant in all other Halloween films. Zombie’s direction is rough and gritty, but certainly adds to the atmosphere and chilling story — my heart was pounding when young Michael was slaying his sister and her boyfriend. As for Zombie using the same cast as his other films, it’s really no different than what Carpenter did either (How many Carpenter films was Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis, and Adrienne Barbeau were in? I can count at least 3). I’ve seen the original film about a thousand times, and Zombie’s remake can never replace Carpenter’s classic, but this film is worth the effort and respect. I’m looking forward to the Unrated DVD version, which will have a lot of scenes restored that was cut from the theatrical release.
Buy Halloween At Amazon!
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Buy Halloween At Amazon!
Compare & Purchase Halloween at Amazon by clicking here! List Price: —- Amazon Price: $9.99 |
Halloween Description:
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6300 in Movie
- Released on: 2010-03-18
- Running time: 122 minutes
Customer Reviews:
Considering
The original Halloween is a classic and will in my book always receive a five star rating. Recently there has been a great deal of remakes that were flops and catered to the teeny bopper crowd such as, The Fog, The Omen, Dark Water, etc. However there has been only two remakes that I thought were diserving of our attenion, one being the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, and Halloween.
What I liked about the remake was it gave us something fresh to work with. In the original Halloween we never really knew why Michael was bad, in this remake, the first thirty minutes or so expore the childhood of Michael Myers. People say that the dialog concerning Michael’s family was wrong. Trust me, I have seen broken homes and Mr. Zombie gives us exactly what you would expect from a trashy family.
Besides satisfying my curiosity of Michael’s childhood, I found this to be similar in many cases to the original, but at the same time the material was quite fresh with new chills and scares. Zombie took a masterpiece and reminded us why it is called a masterpiece. He accomplished a great job capturing a 70′s look and theme, and did a great musical score as well. This is possibly the best horror remake that I’ve ever seen.
A Remake That Should NEVER Have Been Made…
First of all, this film is so shallow, cliched, and tired I don’t even know where to begin. Zombie somehow manages to take a beloved classic (which was so good to begin with that it didn’t ned to be remade in the first place) and destroy just about everything great about it.
Where to begin? The dialogue is incredibly insipid, crass, and totally unbelievable. The characters are thinner and more one-dimensional than a piece of white paper, and the motivations are absolutely straight out of a “how to make a B-movie” manual. The Michael Myers backstory is so cliched that it’s laughable; he comes from a seriously dysfunctional household with an abusive/alcoholic father, a stripper mother who is barely hanging on to life, and a cruel, whore sister. Therefore, poor Michael becomes a serial killer! Makes sense, right? Not really…but, Zombie would like to fool people into thinking it does.
The three heroines from the original are back in the form of Anie, Linda, and of course, beloved Laurie. Except these three girls are transformed from charming, wonderful, smart-alecky (in a cute way) girls into obnoxious, mean-spirited, vacuous, shallow twits who we can’t even begin to care about. Even Laurie herself fails to elicit much sympathy or empathy from the audience due to her being just plain stupid and rather, as I said before, obnoxious.
Loomis is transformed from a venerable, noble, and sympathetic Doctor into an egocentric, clueless, simpleton. One can’t feel any respect or identification with him either.
Finally, there’s Michael himself. In this incarnation, Michael turns from a child into a hulking behemoth…a 6 foot 8 inch bulking monster of a man. Where’s the suspense, horror, mystery, fright, or aura of terror in this idea? I won’t delve deeply into the “what makes Michael work” argument…but, making him 8′ 9″ tall and built like a Hummer does NOT show basic comprehension for what made Michael such a legendary terror to begin with. If bigger = scarier…why not just turn him into a 12′ 8″ cyborg fashioned out of the remains of other serial killers and Nazi tanks? Turning Myers into the Hulk doesn’t make him scarier per se. In fact, it has the opposite effect because it’s too obvious, lazy and cliched. Everyone is expected to be scared of a HUGE man in a mask…but think of it this way. Real life serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy were “normal” guys. They appeared “normal” on the exterior and were also “normal” sized; but they were absolutely evil and some accounts also say they possessed inhuman strength. You wouldn’t expect that from people who just look like they are the “guy next door”. And THAT’S what makes them so scary. You would expect a 6’8″ hulking monster to be superhumanly strong…but you would absolutely NOT expect a man who stands just above 6 feet to be a completely indestructible force of nature. Sure, Zombie’s version is more obvious…but that’s also why it’s so much less scary to some people. There’s no mystery and no subtlety to Zombie’s Myers, we expect exactly what we get. And therein lies the problem. The original Myers had a quiet stealth and mystery to him that was truly disturbing; Nick Castle didn’t simply walk while wearing the mask…he glided. He moved smoothly and efficiently, like a shark. And because of his “normal” stature, it made it even scarier when he performed superhuman feats of strength and stamina.
When I first saw the film, I wasn’t sure whether or not to blame most of my dislikes on the actors…but then I realized, they were doing their best given the material they had to work with. The fault lies with the director/writer for even putting such trash to paper in the first place.
Naturally, when this film was announced and the director revealed, audiences shouldn’t have expected a shot-for-shot remake of the original. But, audiences WERE expecting a film with intelligence, style, and a basic comprehension and respect for what made “Halloween” work in the first place. Zombie showed NONE of those things. Instead he caters to the average IQ level of the reality-TV-slurping cro-magnons who have the attention span and aesthetic sensibility of a pre-schooler. He took a great idea, a masterpiece of horror and dumbed it down…stripped it of it’s mystery and subtlety, and thus its effectiveness…and layered it with white-trash characters, foul-mouthed and crass teens that are unlikeable, and poured buckets of blood on it; he made it more “today”. That’s NOT necessarily a good thing.
Halloween Remake…A Fresh Look…
I don’t know why everyone is bashing this film, but I am a die-hard fan of the Halloween movies and the horror genre, and I thought this movie was a nice remake to the best and original Carpenter film. It’s certainly more entertaining than the crappy sequels that previously came out, and this film sets a more serious and modern harsh reality of what it could be like if this happened today. Carpenter’s original film took place in 1978, so I found it to be a nice homage for Zombie to begin the origins of young Michael Myers in 1978. For the first time, we actually get to see what kind of family and childhood that Michael grew up in, which explains so much to his psychotic condition. As a child, Michael’s facsination with torturing and killing innocent animals presents an accurate profile for such a future serial killer. This film actually has some explanations behind it, which is vacant in all other Halloween films. Zombie’s direction is rough and gritty, but certainly adds to the atmosphere and chilling story — my heart was pounding when young Michael was slaying his sister and her boyfriend. As for Zombie using the same cast as his other films, it’s really no different than what Carpenter did either (How many Carpenter films was Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis, and Adrienne Barbeau were in? I can count at least 3). I’ve seen the original film about a thousand times, and Zombie’s remake can never replace Carpenter’s classic, but this film is worth the effort and respect. I’m looking forward to the Unrated DVD version, which will have a lot of scenes restored that was cut from the theatrical release.
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People all over the webbins have been talking about Trick r Treat for some time now – exploring conspiratorial notions on why the film has sat shelved for so long while rhapsodizing about impartial how well X-Men 2/Superman Returns scribe Michael Dougherty’s directorial debut works. Having recently seen the film, I can snarl you that I know why the film sat for years: It’s one of the more ruthless studio-funded dread films ever made. It’s not very gory or explicit at all – but it has a truly, deeply, poor attitude. If William Gaines penned morality plays this venomous – to hell with the Comics Code. He’d have probably served time. Trick r Treat is overflowing with the kind of anarchic, mean-spirited hilarity that never sits well with the suits.
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One of the reasons the film feels so vile is that the people who populate the anecdote feel so utterly true. It’s really hard to account for without spoiling a lot of what makes it work so well, but – to give you an opinion – director Michael Dougherty explained to us that one of the notes he received during the production process was that the children he cast were “too young”. Couldn’t he develop the kids older? Couldn’t he cast hotter? That’s not to say that elements of the cast aren’t flat-out “foxy” (gawk the sexi-sexi of Lauren Lee Smith and Rochelle Aytes) but there are sequences in the film that work perfectly because they’re not about plasticine twentysomethings. Again – I can’t elaborate exactly what I mean without doing you a disservice – but when you finally look the film, you’ll understand completely.
Trick r Treat has been described in sure quarters as an anthology film – but that’s not wholly true. In truth, the film possesses a non-linear myth structure – it’s more a Pumpkin Pulp Fiction than a Creepshow copy (though the EC Comics connection this film shares with Romero’s classic accomplish them kindred spirits – and a huge double bill) . The film moves help and forth between tales that, at first, seem to be related only by the presence of the mysterious, malevolent itsy-bitsy creature seen in the film’s promotional materials. Over the running time, we approach to realize that the diminutive creeper pops up for a reason – and even that detail is something I don’t want to spoil for you.
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Despite the aforementioned EC Comics vibe (wherein the table-turning swear that hands the petty thief or adulterous couple their objective desserts is par for the course), the hooked twistiness of Trick r Treat quiet manages to surprise. At different points during the running time, the audience could be heard to speculate on how they felt some swerve might play out – very early on, I had an notion of how I view the epic featuring Dylan Baker should waste – but I was convinced that there was no scheme my resolution would flit. That Dougherty was able to do exactly what accepted sense told me would be excised by an executive before it was ever filmed completely negated my anticipation of the last shot. The sequence ended the only device an opinion of the anxiety genre dictates it should – but instead of feeling “been there, done that” – the payoff plays like the reward for sitting through all of the committee-created genre projects that lack the spine to do it correct. Another suppose – easily the film’s most pretty – made me feel like a complete idiot. Thinking about it now, I collected don’t understand why I didn’t call it with a chuckle the very moment Legal Blood’s Anna Paquin awkwardly stepped out of her fitting room to face the derision of her friends. At least I wasn’t alone – by the raze of her character’s arc, the audience I was share of sat in jumpy silence…then burst into reverent applause – a response based on elements converging in a perfect storm: a beautifully-shot and edited sequence featuring a astounding revelation, a flawless mix of practical and computer generated imagery, an awesome character beat – and one super-cool line of dialogue. You could sell the film with that single scene…if it didn’t give so remarkable away.
The most incandescent thing about Dougherty’s film is how it uses Halloween holiday iconography to craft iconic visuals (if the film received the 3,000 mask release it so richly deserved, really wintry parents would be dressing their kids up as “Sam” for years) . It’s Jack O’ Lanterns and autumnal golds and vacuformed masks and flame retardant costumes that tie in the befriend and urban legends and classic monsters and heinous candy and everything else you know and appreciate about October 31st. As so many before me (including Dougherty himself) have said, this is not a film that takes residence during Halloween – this is a film about Halloween. It’s about the reason for the season. Dougherty says his hope was that his film could become a Halloween holiday perennial – the one you discover every year. And trust me – it is. I’ll look Trick r Treat every CHRISTMAS – because the film is a gift.
Jason Pollock
I had a chance to spy Trick ‘r Treat at the Midwest Premiere in Chicago on the substantial hide and I am mystified as to why this pleasant film was never given a pudgy theatrical release? It far exceeded my expectations and I gain it to have already become a classic film for dismay aficionados and lovers of the greatest holiday ever, Halloween.
The film is status up as a sort of anthology of short stories, yet they all intertwine and complement each other in the destroy. There is some ample artwork in the tradition of Creepshow and at times reminded me of that film, but the main disagreement is Creepshow’s stories are all their bear and Trick ‘r Treat follows one night with several groups and characters that each have their occupy encounter with a very inferior character indeed. The film has lots of suspense, violence, gore, and some sexy nudity in one legend spirited werewolves. We also have a serial killer significant, some tainted teens trying to fear a nerdy girl, and a memoir told that is destined to be some type of urban yarn in the future attractive mentally disabled kids and a disastrous fate. The greatest thing about Trick ‘r Treat is its style and campy flavor that truly stuck to the contaminated side of the tracks. The film was so considerable fun to spy and destined to be a genre classic.
It’s too poor that an unique understanding comes to Hollywood and and they acknowledge by not giving it a release in theaters and snubbing it. I was very lucky to inspect it in a theater at all. It really is a shame Hollywood is only pumping out unfavorable sequels, remakes, and reinterpretations left and legal. I guess seeing indie flicks is the only satisfaction I will be getting anytime soon, for the major studios are filling the theaters with tiresome apprehension crapfests!
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“Clifford’s Broad Halloween” is a “Clifford the Broad Red Dog” DVD release featuring eight stories about our common broad red dog (R.I.P. John Ritter) and his doggie and human friends. This DVD includes stories from shocking to fun.
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The first narrative on this DVD is “Boo,” in which everyone watches a scary movie for Halloween. Jetta claims nothing paralyzed her, but then gets skittish when she sees a very spacious ghost. Now who might that be?
Other stories are “Leaf of Absence,” “A Modern Dog in Town,” “Not Now I’m Busy,” “Clifford’s Carnival,” “:Come Benefit, Mac,” “Dino Cliford” and “The Worry With Kittens.” Themes covered include taking responsibility, not giving up, not jumping to conclusions, helping others and mighty more.
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All episodes are close-captioned, though the special features are not. The audio is Dolby Digital and includes a Spanish track. Special features include “Speckle Stories” seen in between stories of the demonstrate on TV and a pumpkin-carving game.
This is the first Clifford video my daughter has rented from the library, and she adores it. We’ll probably bewitch it soon.
She is unbiased learning about Halloween at age 2 1/2, so she loved the episodes about a ghost and the descend festival. She also loved the episode where Mac feels guilty about ruining a sweater and runs away from home. Really, there were no episodes she didn’t luxuriate in. I liked that it’s not elegant fast-paced, loud, or annoying! We also fancy the Clifford books, so this ties in well with them.
I was pleasantly surprised! Reminds me a bit of Petite Maintain, in terms of the low-key noise levels and storylines that subtly impart a lesson. Indulge In!
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I sent it to my nephew in Florida for his birthday. He received it in plenty of time and loved it. I saved money too!
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