NEWS: The 9 Coolest Things About "Halloween"

i was one of those kids who watched the original at waaaay too young of an age, thinking that it wouldn't affect me..... i lived in a big house for many years, and saw "the shape" in every dark corner of that place for YEARS.
i wish i could have all those skipped heartbeats back.
i have seen that little head tilt in a handful of kids in my days.... dead-on scary.
Zombie is probably one of the few who would respect the orignal enough to make sure he didn't do a dis-service to a 're-imaging.'

They Desperately need to find a new Voice for Voiceovers. The Gravelly Schtick was played out years ago.

No.

No.

Hell No.

No Fucking Chance.

John Carpenter kicks all their asses. The only time he was one-upped was when Ennio Morricone aped his style for "The Thing".

Ironically, that movie was a remake. Hell, some of the greatest movies ever made are remakes: "The Fly", "Scarface", etc., so maybe all there shouldn't be automatic hate for anyone who does a remake. Although, Hollywood is pumping out way too many, with almost all them being no good.

I think the score to the original Shining is better than what John Carpenter did for Halloween. That is a whole orchestra creating some spooky feelings, not a man behind a keyboard with a programed loop.

I will definitely see Halloween when it hits the theaters. I am a fan of Halloween 1 and 3, that is it. I thought that they brought back MM way too many times. I can see him not dying from a few gunshot wounds but he was burned alive for God's sake, he should be dead unless he is some unholy demon from hell but that is a completely different story. I have liked Zombie's two previous films and I am a fan of his music so I am sure I will like this film. Whether it is better than the original or not, I don't know. Zombie has said that this film really isn't a remake but more of a new story with characters that we all know. So he will be using the same characters and might end up telling the same story of people trapped in a house but he will show other aspects as well (like MM beginnings). I just hope that MM dies in this film, that way we can be done with him once and for all. All of those characters need to die: Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, MM, etc.

Let's do remakes of all the classics; Russel Crowe is, Citizen Kane!

Hollywood is filled with slags.

Picturing Russel Crowe, even participating in anything relating to Citizen Kane, just made my insides cry big manly tears of sorrow.

Shame on you.

Shame.

was Halloween 3 the one with the death masks that would turn your head into bugs when you put them on?

uh..spoiler?

Yup. Dude investigates evil corporation bent on taking over (destroying?) the world, while cheating on his wife.

Awesome "80's" synth-type score, cool gimmick and the best part was the commercials for the "Silver Shamrock" masks, which were terrifying.

But what the hell did it have to do with the franchise. Most Random Sequel EVAR!

Rob has not made any mistakes or bad art in his career to my knowledge. You have to assume this will rock. By the way, did Michael learn to drive by driving the other loonies in the bus on field trips?

And, Halloween II was the only sequel to any of the horror movies that was a true sequel. It starts up where the last one left off. Kinda like part one and part two, like Kill Bill

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I will now curl up and die of shame as I confess to never having seen Halloween.

i admit i am very currious about this movie

I really disliked the original Halloween. I understand that it was probably the origin of the cliches for the most part, but watching it a couple years ago as I did, it was more cliche-riddled than Scream. And Scream was deliberately making fun of every slasher movie convention it could think of.

So I'd be really less than thrilled about a remake if it were in other hands. Rob Zombie, though...I think he'll probably be able to at least do something interesting with it, if not necessarily make it a good movie. (Devil's Rejects was great, but House of a Thousand Corpses was decidedly uneven. Had neat bits though.)

) 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!"

This was in Halloween 2 but that was a pretty good sequel by today's comparisons.

Hah! Good call, totally correct. I swear I was close to putting an asterisk on that one, cause I couldn't remember if it was the end of 1 or opening scenes of 2, but I figured I could slide...

2 is good though, I agree.