NEWS: The 9 Coolest Things About "Halloween"

CULTURE: The 9 Coolest Things About "Halloween"

Some random facts: The original Halloween is the perfect horror film. I've seen Halloween at least a hundred times. I hate remakes of movies.

Because of the above reasons I wanted to hate the Halloween remake. In fact, I still might, but for right now I'm gonna try to be something I've never been before. Open-minded.

I really enjoy Rob Zombie's first two movies. The Devil's Rejects is kick-ass violence and mayhem and I actually liked House of 1000 Corpses even more. And his Grindhouse trailer for Werewolf Women of the S.S. was also great. And maybe the fact that they've churned out sequel after crappy sequel over the past 30 years makes this move less blasphemous.

No one should be remaking this movie. However, regardless of whether or not it turns out okay, they at least appear to be going about it the right way. The thing they shouldn't be doing... they're doing... well... I guess...

Though, I gotta say, the Zombie version comes out on the losing end of the trailer battle...



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The battle continues August 31st.

The 9 Coolest Things About Halloween

1) The John Carpenter score. Terrifying. Picture the most harmless image you can possibly imagine. Puppy frolicking with a chew toy, leaf alighting on a gentle pond, whatever. Picture it. Now add the Halloween theme. Now picture me squealing like a sissy.

2) It's the best of the admittedly pathetic group of holiday-themed horror films. Sure, My Bloody Valentine, Silent Night Deadly Night and Father's Day aren't exactly top of the line projects, but Halloween beats them all.

3) The moment when, after impaling a dude to the wall, Michael Myers stares at his victim and then slowly tilts his head, like an animal would. Whoa.

4) Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." Laurie and Annie listen to it while getting high in the car. Awesome song, which, to this day reminds me of Halloween.

5) The fact that the most terrifying mask in horror history, the one worn by Michael Myers aka "The Shape," was fashioned out of a William Shatner "Captain Kirk," mask. Yeah. Be glad they were all out of "Sulu" masks.

6) Dr Loomis played by the late, great Donald Pleasance. When a freshly-pummeled Laurie asks Dr Loomis if, "that was the boogie man," he replies, "As a matter of fact, it was." See, that's just cool.

7) The fact that the whole "unstoppable killer" gimmick was invented here and so, it's not quite as out of hand as it is later in the genre. Meaning, for the most part, all the damage done to good ole "Double M, " is realistic and it's conceivable he could've survived it. Sort of.

8) After the rampage, the part when the neighbor runs out and in response to the noise says "I've been trick-or-treated to death tonight," and Loomis snaps, "Death! You don't know what death is!" I picture the exchange continuing with Loomis also challenging the neighbor's knowledge of "police," "lunatics," "knife-wounds," and "Funyuns."

"Funyuns! You don't know what Funyuns are!"

9) Um, the fact that Michael Myers actually drives a car in the movie. What? And, somehow, it doesn't make him less scary. Does he signal? Buckle-up? Merge well? Who knows... Jason Voorhees couldn't get away with that shit.



TheCoolerKing admits he actually loves Halloween 3: Season of the Witch

The only funny part of the Werewolf Women trailer was coincidentally also the only funny role Nicolas Cage has ever had: Fu Manchu. Other than that, it was the worst of the trailers.

Somebody missed Raising Arizona.

i have to cosign on this entire article. Halloween is one of my favorite movies of all time, and all 9 of those reasons play a role in that. very funny stuff, and dead on.

i also generally want to take a sock full of quarters to the kneecaps of anyone behind one of these countless horror 'remakes' that continue to crop up, but i'm actually pretty excited for this one.

I liked 3 also...

August 31st? I didn't realize it was just around the corner. Kinda assumed they'd be releasing it on... y'know... Halloween?

I have very high expectations for this movie. Devil's Rejects is my favorite American horror movie of the 21st century. And it isn't even a horror movie, so that's saying something.

Two words, Black Christmas. Jason could take Michael Myers any day of the week. You know why there's no Michael Vs. Jason? It would only be 10 minutes long. I mean hell, Busta Rhymes kicked his ass.

oooh, good call.

This is my favorite horror movie ever... and I can't wait for the remake.

Only because Eli Roth's Thanksgiving (also seen in Grindhouse) isn't a real movie.

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...yet

Oh, and I'm trying #1 as we speak. Clicking random vids on Cute Overload and imagining the Halloween theme song. Shit actually works!

The original movie bored me to tears but I like Zombie's vision so I may see the remake.

I guess I'm just from a whole different horror generation.
I can imagine the original Halloween was amazing when it was first released, but for me... it really wasn't that great. The music is all but a mockery in my head, of course that could be due to the thousands of parodies of Halloween, making it anything but scary.

It also could be my preference of "I'm sick, twisted, and have SERIOUS mental problems" characters over "I'm evil" characters. Which is really why I liked both of RZ's movies. I enjoy the "I'm going to fuck with you and make you go crazy before killing you and doing horrid, unspeakable things to your barely live/dead body"

Who knows?

Don't get me wrong though, just about every modern-day horror movie is absolute garbage.

In any case, I dig your lists, TheCoolerKing.

I dunno, I thought Michael Myers had some pretty serious mental problems...

Rob Zombie needs to stop making shitty films and bring back White Zombie (and not his solo career).

It really doesn't appear to be a remake to me at all. This as a big fan of the original...

it's a 're-imagining' which is really saying "i have no original ideas of my own, so let's rehash something and cater to today's audiences, but let's not call it a remake because doing so would mean i'm totally not cool and nhave no original ideas of my own."

"1) The John Carpenter score."

BEST HORROR MOVIE SCORE! EVER!!!

Exorcist?

The Omen? (orig)

Amityville Horror? (orig)

Puppet Master?

from my understanding Zombie actualy turned down Akkad's[the son, not the dead dad] request to direct the remake several times until it became obvious to him Akkad was gonna remake it with or without him.

That being said, the Akkads are the ones who rape Halloween endlessly because its a cash cow for them, the original cost them 300K and everything since is pure profit. Id much rather Zombie do something cool with it than have like Eli Roth try and direct it.

And Vampire's Kiss.

Ravenous?

It means that just like every work of art since prehistoric times it s a variation on a theme... and for once it is in the hands of a capable director. what more could you ask for in a modern movie?

The only thing "Jason" ever murdered was the horror genre itself.

In case no one is noticing, John Carpenter seems to have no problem with his movies being remade, re imagined, or just fucked up( The Fog anyone). So it seems like a blessing that Rob Zombie is at the helm of Halloween, better that than a hack from Hollywood that hasn't a fan appreciation of the original. I suppose in a year we eill be talking about They Live

Actually there's talk of it getting its own Sci-Fi series.