In Defense of Rob Zombie's Halloween
I know, okay? I know how everybody feels about remakes. Especially horror movie remakes. But it seems like there is no more unfairly maligned horror movie remake than Rob Zombie's Halloween. It's understandable. Halloween is a classic, groundbreaking film. It was the first horror movie I ever saw and one of the first R-rated movies I ever saw. I remember how much I loved the fact that it relied more on atmosphere and tension than blood and gore. I remember how much I loved the perfectly creepy soundtrack. I remember buying a Halloween mask and breathing heavily into it like Michael Myers for weeks. But what Rob Zombie did with this source material deserves a hell of a lot more respect than it gets and on this, the day that lends the movie its name, I'd like to lay out all the reasons why...