tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375462896069663031.post9130581435982894737..comments2023-03-08T03:18:18.958-05:00Comments on Exfanding Your Horizons: Exfanding Review: Rob Zombie's HalloweenFlashman85http://www.blogger.com/profile/05803594092301739957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375462896069663031.post-59947666035442965392011-11-21T09:42:37.850-05:002011-11-21T09:42:37.850-05:00I've heard that about Zombie's second Hall...I've heard that about Zombie's second Halloween. I think I'm going to avoid watching it.AJGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16973780010785594820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375462896069663031.post-74879687210154308042011-11-15T16:53:42.851-05:002011-11-15T16:53:42.851-05:00I think it's a credit to Rob Zombie's abil...I think it's a credit to Rob Zombie's abilities that he can do the sorts of things other directors have tried to do in remakes to great failure, but make them work. For example, I went to see the remake of Bob Clark's Black Christmas (which I still prefer to his A Christmas Story as the annual go-to movie to watch on Christmas Day), and the new director insisted on giving the killer a back story, and well, it was altogether a horrendous movie.<br /><br />On the other hand, there is Rob Zombie's Halloween II, which seems to deviate quite a bit from the source material, presumably eschewing it in favor of the Halloween-derived story Zombie wanted to tell, and which, in my opinion, was pretty terrible (and I'm sad to say that Dr. Loomis and Laurie Strode's characters both take a drastic turn for the worse), especially given how good Zombie's first Halloween was. I guess the marriage of his talent and sensibilities to the remake of the story was an excellent pairing, but one that ends there.zharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995423745639356980noreply@blogger.com