The movie came out in Europe today so I'm sure you must be getting reviews in. I sent one to Harry 6 hours ago and I'm guessing that a few more sent some in as well but so far there's nothing gone up.

I'm just wondering if there's an embargo on posting any reviews until the US release or if you are simply waiting until you get a few more in.

I'll be interested to read the opinions from you guys. I can sum up my own thoughts in one word - painful.

Anyways back on topic...uh...Halloween...um... scary, no?

Because I want that game.

Think of the finishing moves...

I watched it a few times and walked away from it feeling indifferent but then I had to be honest about it, Rob did a damn good job, It was disturbing at times and fucked up others, but the one thing it wasn't was boring, looking forward to how Zombies' H2 finishes.

I like that Zombie went away from making a complete frame by frame remake (Psycho) and created his own genre. At least For the first 45 minutes or so, I had no idea what the hell was going to happen next and (To me) because of that it was very effective.

Think about it, we could've easily gotten Halloween X or some other bullshit with a rapper in it. Instead they brought along somebody who tried something different.

Have some fucking integrity Zombie and create your own fucking horror antagonist, with their own mythos, instead of bastardizing and riding the coat tails of others creative works.

He did, Otis Driftwood, and he was 10 kinds of awesome. Rather than milking the franchise for 8 films he killed him in the 2nd one and moved on.

Wasn't talking about "Corpses" or "Rejects" and without delving into the + and - of each films merits, he at least deserves credit for some originality.

Not so for his fucking ass raping of Halloween and Michael Myers.

Sure, the original, while not an "untouchable" work of cinematic art, was never the less an iconic moment in American horror movie history, and deserved better than the hackneyed stupidity Zombie foisted upon it's name.

Myers was soulless and emotionless.

A black empty pit.... A literal single celled harbinger of death.

Zombie turned him into a white trash brat with a horrible home life, and infuses him with a Anthony Perkins complex.

Carpenter's Myers killed because he simply "was" Zombie's Myers kills "because of"

Then everyone would talk about how great it was!

and that poster really sucks.

it looks more like myers is a jason poser.

and my photoshop does rain better than that.

Have you clowns never seen a HALLOWEEN sequel? All of which were shit. Though HALLOWEEN 4 has its merits.

Seriously, Micheal Meyers doesn't need a backstory. It's only cool BECAUSE he's a normal kid with a normal family. Change that and you ruin everything. Oops, Rob Zombie already did that.

The funny thing is, even tho I didn't really like his earlier efforts, I always thought, "Give this guy an existing franchise and he'll knock it out of the park." Good God was I wrong. Maybe he should've gotten the F13 remake, since he's obviously got mother issues.

Cuz it don't show.

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Yeah, it's probably cliche, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look fun.

"The Final Destination" & "Halloween 2" trailers preview stuff just left me cold.

The rest... for me to poop on.

I think that modern horror has to stop emulating the "smarts" of the 1st "Scream" or the torture porn of "Saw". Instead, it has to find that happy middle ground.

The characters and plot can't be mindless, but they can't be simple suspense thrillers. The kills have to be nice & scary, but have to have some meaning and carry some weight. I mean, really. How many Nightmare on Elm Street fans were truly pissed off that the killed Nancy at the end of Dream Warriors? Even the deaths of some of the kids there had some weight too since small layers of depth were added to them.

Then, in the other camp, you look at Zombie's flick or any of the later NoES or Jason movies and all of the kids look like "meat for the beast" instead of people.

Horror needs a reinvention..... AGAIN. The lessons of old school horror aren't dead. They've just been buried under the weight of "one-up"manship, with each flick trying to be more gruesome or mock smart than the competition.

And Rob Zombie's Halloween was horrible. "Love Hurts"? Really, Rob? Really? You don't need to parody Zombie's work because he does it himself.

Clear enough? I mean shit people, if you're going to come on here and bitch at people you say are being arbitrary about their bitching, at least don't be arbitrary in the amount of research you do to prove your point about that bitching. Nobody gave a shit Zombies Halloween was a remake until he turned Michael Myers from an unknowable and unstoppable evil force into a troubled and abused, white-trash redneck with a parent/familial grudge.

As for Let the right one in: he knew where the vampire lived because he saw the man and the 'girl' move in to the empty apartment in his building. He also approached the man in the Chinese restaurant so he knew exactly who he was. He got in because the door was left unlocked (this is better explained in the book). Of course, in the book he finds something quite different in the bathroom, but the issue of him getting in and how he does so is not as bad as you describe.

The hype is a bit much though..it's definitely a great and unorthodox vampire movie, very interesting if not entirely unique but it's by no means the 'best vampire movie ever'.