Halloween (2-Disc Unrated Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

Halloween (2-Disc Unrated Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
by Rob Zombie

Halloween (2-Disc Unrated Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Daeg Faerch, Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane
Director: Rob Zombie
Writer: Rob Zombie
Producer: Andrew G. La Marca
Producer: Andy Gould
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Writer: Debra Hill
Writer: John Carpenter
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Dimension Home Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Halloween (2-Disc Unrated Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: why all the bad reviews?
Summary: 5 Stars

good movie from rob zombie, and this is coming from an old school horror fan who loved the original. Solid story of michaels childhood, and loved the kid michael as well. don't listen to all the bad reviews. check this movie out, and I look forward too part 2 coming soon.

DVD Review: WORST REMAKE EVER>>>> HORRIBLE
Summary: 1 Stars

This is the owrst kinda peice of trash I have ever sat through and that includes Ed Wood movies.
This was such sleazy trash with even sleazier white trashy chracters that I loved in the original and couldn't wait for them to die in this one.
This will not stand the test of time or last on anyones DVD rack. Totally yesterdays trash. DESERVES NO STARS

DVD Review: halloween
Summary: 5 Stars

I FEEL ROB ZOMBIE DID A GREAT JOB WITH THIS MOVIE.HE TOOK US DEEP INSIDE THE MIND OF A YOUNG MICHEAL TO THE PRESENT,THAT WAY WE UNDERSTAND BETTER WHY HE TURNED OUT LIKE HE DID.I THINK MORE PEOPLE SHOULD FOLLOW ROB'S EXAMPLE WHEN DOING REMAKES,KEEP IT REAL AND GIVE THE PEOPLE A LITTLE MORE THAN JUST THE SAME OLD STUFF. WAY TO GO ROB !!!!!!!!!!!Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)

DVD Review: Horrible pointless
Summary: 1 Stars

There is no reason this movie was remade other than money. It is horrible and pointless just as the many sequels were. What makes me the most sad is that some kid in the next 10 years will read a review of how Halloween is on the list of best horror movies ever made and will pick up this garbage instead of the original. Art is dying this is proof.

DVD Review: "All the slashers from the 70's and 80's have returned with messed up childhoods"--David J. Schow
Summary: 3 Stars

THIS IS A REVIEW FOR THE 3-DISC UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT ONLY!

I'm a little late on this one. I saw it with everyone else two years ago, and saw the unrated cut about a year ago. I didn't loathe the film as much as the fanboy purists, but I also didn't love the film as much as the new fanboys who seem to like anything that was made within the last ten years. To me this film is half original brilliance and half uninspired mediocrity. Hence, the three star rating. But the actual three disc set gets a five star rating, but I'll get to that in a minute.

First off, the unrated director's cut is miles ahead and better then the cut shown theatrically. We get more character beats, especially with Dr. Loomis and Michael's break-out scene is done more realistically. Zombie spends so much time making Michael a real human being in this film that it always boggled my mind how he escaped like Superman in the theatrical cut. The director's cut not only uses incidents torn from the past's headlines, it seems more in step with the new tone and mythology of Zombie's Michael Myers. We also get more time spent in the asylum with young Michael. It's really well written and directed stuff that helps further drive Zombie's main thesis regarding Michael home, and it's truly creepy and unsettling. For horro movie nerds we get a couple more detailed horror icon cameos in the form of Courtney Gains(Children of the Corn) and Udo Kier(Andy Warhol's Dracula, Modern Vampires) and Clint Howard(c'mon, you know this guy!). Though, we lose the theatrical cut's cameos by Devil's Rejects allumni, my persoal favorite being Bill Mosley('Dog will hunt!)

The problems with this remake vary. Firstly, the opening breakfast scene is so over the top and silly that it's just annoying. Obviously, Zombie had a loaded script and had to make a short cut in setting up this dysfunctional family, but it's not very believable or well done. More importantly, Zombie takes some of the mythos and general mystery away from the Michael character by letting us get to know him and see that he was a regular kid with problems, major mental problems. Unlike Carpenter's original where Michael was the personification of the unknown and faceless evil, Zombie just makes Michael your average American psycho. It's interesting and unexpected but it is one of the factors that help in making the second half of the film not work. I do appreciate the asylum scenes and I really like the relationship between young Michael and Loomis, played beautifully and tragically by Malcolm Mcdowell, leaving behind the kooky obsession of Donald Pleasance's Loomis. The movie tries hard to make the viewer understand Michael and feel connected to him while being repulsed by what he is. It's only half successful, and only in the first hour.

After about forty-five minutes the film switches into a total remake of the Carpenter film proper. Unfortunately, the film is so top heavy that we never really get to know or care about Michael's future victims including Laurie Strode, and this is big gripe for me. Not being able to care about the characters or even differentiate them from one another is death to a horror film. Many slasher films from the mid to late 80's made the same mistake and just became exorcises in gore special effects. Kudos to Zombie for holding back on the gore though. Sure, this movie is way gorier then the original but it's not that gorey in general. The violence is more implied with body twitches, murky lighting, sound effects and unsettling music stings by the great composer Tyler Bates. So, all the folks who saw this film and claimed it to be more violent then it is, are just giving Zombie the ultimate compliment as a director. Hitchcock achieved the same thing with his shower scene in Psycho, though this film is also more violent then that film for sure. Different times and different strokes I guess.

While all the remake additions are interesting on their own right, the rushed and by the numbers remake section, the section with the real terror from the original, is slighted and less then desirable. The finale is a great roller coaster ride, and I for one LOVE the final shot. It was unexpected and leaves the audience unnerved for the future of the main character. I don't think the film is a complete failure or terrible, but rather an underachiever with moments of originality and brilliance. I would prefer Zombie to stick to original material then to remake ANYTHING. I hold his Devil's Rejects in very high regard. Maybe this summer's sequel Halloween 2, Zombie will perfect his original vision and not be shackled by following the original film's storyline. Though, from the trailers I saw, Zombie's Halloween 2 seems to be set in a hospital. NATCH.

The three disc set is AWESOME! If you loved this remake it's a no-brainer, but the third disc is worth a look even if you didn't. Hell, if you're an aspiring filmmaker at all the third 4-hour making of disc is a must see. Zombie does, like Peter Jackson, his own bonus materials for his films and chronicles the whole production. This doc really shows the filmmaking process in it's entirety like none other I've seen in a long while. One really gets an inside look at how these things are done, and not the usual B.S. EPK material most DVDs come with that end up really being a commercial for the film that has the actors saying empty things like, "Yeah, it was a really fun shoot. Everyone's great." You really get to see what a director's ultimate role in a film is, from every level. There's a great bit involving the location scouting that shows Zombie making the tiniest of alterations to a set. An alteration the viewer wouldn't think twice about but is on the director's mind at all times. The second disc is the same as the previous releases as is the commentary. A really good commentary that doesn't repeat too much of the info found on either bonus disc. Not to mention Zombie goes into detail regarding his decision for this remake as far as the visuals, the violence, color scheme, and performances--which are all good despite some of the underwriting on some of the characters.

Bottom line, this at least an interesting film, if not a great one. I like it enough, while not being totally enamored of it. I anticipate the sequel, and whether it's good or bad, I hope Zombie moves out of the remake business and gets back to making real films from his heart. Carpenter's Halloween is one of my favorite films of all time. I hold it in high regard as far as horror cinema goes. Carpenter himself is a filmmaker I use as a template for my own endeavors. One thing that this remake tragically loses that the original had, and it was very important to the original, is that Michael was truly the boogeyman. Some dialogue regarding the boogeyman, like the original, is peppered throughout the remake but it all seems moot considering how Zombie makes Michael so much more human. He's not the boogeyman, he's a psycho with a motive only a psycho would understand or relate to. The original Michael Myers was truly faceless and without motive, which made him scarier in his randomness, well until the original Halloween sequels screwed all that up. This remake is no worse then the sequels, which were all mediocre in my opinion. Here's hoping for the future.

Description of Halloween (2-Disc Unrated Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

Rob Zombie (The Devil's Rejects), "modern American horror's most eccentric and surprising filmmaker," (Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times) reinvents the ultimate slasher classic, unleashing Michael Myers for a bloody rollercoaster of a rampage like fans have never seen. Including a retelling of the original story that unfolds at a breakneck pace, as well as a chilling new introduction that finally reveals the secrets behind Myers' disturbing childhood, Halloween breathes new life into one of film history's most terrifying tales. "It will leave you speechless" (Spooky Dan, Bloody-Disgusting).

More of a supercharged revamp than a remake, Rob Zombie's take on John Carpenter's Halloween expands the back story of masked killer Michael Myers in an attempt to examine the motivation for his first deadly attack, as well as some reasons for his longevity as a horror icon. Zombie's Myers is a blank-eyed teen (played by Daeg Faerch) whose burgeoning mental problems are left unchecked in a horrific home environment; harassed by schoolmates, a randy sister, and his mother's deadbeat boyfriend (William Forsythe, terrific as usual), Myers' homicidal explosion seems inevitable, and intervention by Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell, who offers a fast-talking, hippiefied version of the Donald Pleasance character) does little to impede his development into a mute, unstoppable killing machine (Tyler Mane) bent on finishing off the only survivor of his family's massacre--his sister, now grown into teenaged Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton). Opening up the psychological motivation of a cipher like Michael Myers is an interesting approach, but Zombie's script possesses neither a depth of character nor dialogue to offer more than a clichéd thumbnail character sketch, and devoting over a hour of the unrated cut's 120-minute-plus running time to this history feels bloated and self-indulgent (especially when compared to the lean efficiency of the Carpenter original). Zombie's Halloween isn't terribly suspenseful, either; he has a keen eye for visuals and the details of chaotic environments, but his scares are nothing more than brutal showcases for his special effects team. The end result barely surpasses the original film's numerous sequels, though the Who's Who of cult and character actors in the cast (including Zombie regulars Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Ken Foree, as well as Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Richard Lynch, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, and Danielle Harris) adds a touch of late-night monster movie charm. However, the film's best performance belongs to the director's spouse, Sheri Moon Zombie, who brings unexpected pathos to the role of Myers' downtrodden mother.

The two-disc Unrated Director's Cut offers a full disc's worth of extras that should please Zombie fans; chief among the supplemental features is his commentary, which details the film's shooting history and the numerous edits required to deliver the theatrical version. A making-of featurette offers further details of Zombie's vision for the film, and there are featurettes on his cast choices and the many masks that Myers makes while incarcerated. Seventeen deleted scenes (two of which feature Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Towles) and an alternate ending (all with Zombie's commentary) are also provided, as well as footage from the casting sessions. A blooper reel, which is highlighted by unchecked mischief by McDowell and Dourif, offers the set's sole moment of levity. -- Paul Gaita

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