04-08-2009, 01:32 PM
<!--quoteo(post=308246:date=Apr 8 2009, 12:27 PM:name=WarLocK)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (WarLocK @ Apr 8 2009, 12:27 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=308246\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecSimilar. But H3 was actually a good movie all on its own. Rob's HalloweeN not only didn't have the original feel, the character portrayal left me with an empty feeling.It seemed like a fan film with great cinematography and decent acting.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndYou are so right. Rob's Halloween was completely out of sorts and way over the top. It felt like a repackaged mix out of House of 1000 corpses and Reject's with Michael Myers thrown in for good measure. Malcom McDowell was completely out of place and didn't even come close to the stunning performances that Pleasence put on as Loomis back in the day. You just knew that it was going to blow after just hearing the opening music, which could have been taken straight out of Reject's by the way.What made the Halloween series work in the first place was the simplicity of it, simple effects, simple make up, and a simple score to play the story forward - just a beautiful mix really. What Zombie is doing to Halloween is trying to incorporate the whole madness/psychotic aspect of the idea behind Michael Myers at which he utterly fails as that whole in your face TCM kind of crazy doesn't do a single thing for Myers. It just makes you go WTF? It's the simple, quite kind of crazy that scares people, you know the stuff that surprises you because you didn't expect it at all.