A few months back, I was in my truck, listening to the Stern show. His guest was heavy metal singer turned director Rob Zombie and his wife. They were promoting the sequel to the reboot of the classic horror movie, Halloween. Having never seen the original Halloween movie, I really had no interest seeing the newest version. However, as Rob Zombie was going into detail with Stern about his vision of the series, I became more intrigued. After watching the reboot of Friday the 13th, I was a little skeptical/ Two nights after Halloween, Netflix sends us the first Halloween movie of the Rob Zombie series.
This movie was great! Having never known the origin of Michael Myers, it was interesting to see how tormented he was as a child. With his stepfather being an out of work loser and his mother working as a stripper, he was in white-trash hell! It didn't help that he was picked on in school, and his older sister could care less about his needs. I also liked how they explained why he hid in masks. When the janitor tells him to live inside his own head, he takes it to heart and creates all sorts of masks. I thought Malcolm McDowell was excellent as the child psychiatrist who tries to treat Michael Myers.
Melissa mentioned this to me and I'm starting to agree. The art of horror movies isn't about the movie being scary anymore. I don't know if it's because the directors can't get the audience to jump, or that we've seen real scary moments in our lives that scary music and an unpredible death just isn't enough for us. Either way, I loved the story. I can't wait to see the sequel, even though I already glanced at the plot on wikipedia.org.
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