Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween is terrifying, bloody as hell, and has a kick ass soundtrack that is very well placed throughout the film. The original Halloween scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, so I was a little skeptical going in. In the new version, we get a pretty elaborate back story of Michael’s childhood, which I thought was well done. It doesn’t take the creep factor away either because you can’t really explain a psychopath as a character. Yet his psychopathology has a richer context….if anything, it would be pretty messed up to have Sheriff Wydell as your step-dad.

Perhaps best of all, much of the cast consists of characters from his other films; even Captain Spaulding makes an appearance, unfortunately not in makeup though.

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