Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Rob Zombie
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Actor: Daeg Faerch, Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler ManeDirector: Rob Zombie
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Writer: Rob Zombie
Producer: Andrew G. La Marca
Producer: Andy Gould
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Writer: Debra Hill
Writer: John Carpenter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Perfect condition
Summary: 5 Stars
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Again, I bought this movie for a friend for an early x-mas present so I cannot make a review of the film itself.
DVD Review: Great Seller
Summary: 5 Stars
Item was perfect, priced right and shipping was very fast. No problems at all, would do business again. Thank You!!!!DVD Review: Halloween Rob zombie 2007
Summary: 5 Stars
Rob Zombies Halloween movie 2007 is one of the best movies ever made. At the age of 10, Michael Myers kills his step father, older sister and her boyfriend on an halloween night. he spends 15 years at Smiths groove mental hospital. During a night he escapes leaving the hospital like an abattoir to look for his younger sister...
Very well made movie with good actors. 5/5 not for the weak minded!
DVD Review: "Michael Meyers was created by interior and exterior factors gone violently wrong. A perfect storm,if you will."
Summary: 4 Stars
I rented Rob Zombie's Halloween sort of not really knowing if it was going to completely suck or if he hit one out of the park? Well, after seeing it...I have to tell ya, Rob didn't hit a home run but his new vision and re-telling of Carpenter's "classic" Halloween is a solid hit. He stuck to the basic story and plot (rearranged some things) and completely re-vamped Halloween into something much better (he got rid of allot of the hokeyness that was in the original). While not perfect (I had an issue with the "time line") I can look past that one discrepancy, it played out much smoother and with less down time.
Zombie's version of Halloween is far more violent and shows much more graphic detail. I liked the back story that gave you a better glimpse to how Michael Meyers came to be and the meaning behind "the mask". Halloween purists will argue that Zombie revealed too much by giving too much away and spending too much time on other details. Those are the minute minority that are just hung up on Carpenter's classic and are unwilling to accept a new version of the film.
You can't compare the two films. While similar in character and plot, they are completely two different animals. Carpenter's Halloween will always be the "cult classic" and what Zombie was attempting to do (and executed well) was make it "his film". Doing a complete carbon copy of the original would have been pointless and an insult to the original. I'm glad that Zombie manned up and took the reins on this one giving it quite a different look and feel. Dirty, gritty, cruel and ferocious to the end. Zombie's vision of Halloween will keep your attention from start to finish. I liked it so much that I broke down and bought the DVD, it is well worth watching and owning and great film for a Halloween night tradition.
DVD Review: Starts well then turns into a standard remake
Summary: 3 Stars
Remakes often fail, especially when based on classic material, as they are constantly compared to the original. It may be unfair, but it is inevitable. So, with the remake of a movie as good and as well known as Halloween, Rob Zombie was stepping into some very big shoes. What was interesting to me, is how the portions of the movie that had nothing to do with the original were far more interesting to me than those which were a remake. While nothing necessarily unique, watching Mike Myers as a young boy, with all sorts of problems, mental and social, was rather interesting. In some ways, leaving this movie as a prequel rather than a prequel/remake would have been advised. Once the movie decided to become a remake I largely lost interest, knowing who was going to die, and constantly feeling that it had been done before dragged the movie down a notch. When Laurie finally asks "Was that the boogie man?" I cringed, as it felt so out of place, and a forced nod to the original.
It's a shame really that the remake portion detracted from the what could have otherwise been something interesting. I think Rob Zombie had shown some real darkness and great film making in the dark and sadistic devil's rejects, and was hoping for more from this. While I got some interesting moments, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe his sequel will cure the defects of the remake, and stick to being its own entity. Its worth seeing, if you're not expecting too much.
Description of Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
The original slasher film about Michael Myers, the psychotic killer who dons a mask and terrorizes his hometown, is re-imagined by edgy director Rob Zombie.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 clich?d 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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