Because it's still about Michael Myers, it all feels epic and larger than life in a way few of those other films do.

| Oct 19, 2018

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The result, though undeniably preferable to yet another misbegotten installment of the long-exhausted franchise, certainly doesn't compare to John Carpenter's landmark original film.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2007

Taking 50 minutes to get to the present where the original took five, here we are offered something resembling justification for why poor little Mikey beat and stabbed his way to infamy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2007

This take on Halloween is grim and nasty, but never remotely scary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Zombie may not be able to match the stalk 'n' menace of Carpenter's steadicam original, but when the Big Z's knife hits the right groove, he cuts to the dark heart of the Myers legend.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2007

It's inanely-scripted exploitation, sure, but this 'Halloween' doesn't trivialise; it even returns with sympathy to one victim minutes after the attack that has left her bleeding on the floor.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Sep 28, 2007

though Zombie continues to have a true, unflinching artist's eye for the sublimely horrific, that eye is wasted here on an unnecessarily moribund history of sociopathy as it relates to Halloween in Haddonfield, Ill.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2007

The Batman Begins of slasher movies, and one of the more frightening stabathons of recent years.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2007

It's a decent diversion.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 5, 2007

Part prequel, part remake, this new look at the cinematic serial killer icon Michael Meyers just isn't very scary.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2007

Contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the booker for Jerry Springer wrote it (Zombie did).

| Sep 4, 2007

Trick or treat? Rob Zombie's "re-imagining" of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween must sadly be consigned to the former category and it's not even a very interesting, suspenseful trick at that.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 4, 2007

The new Halloween has sympathy for the Devil, but not enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 4, 2007

Rob Zombie's lousy remake of John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic Halloween adds to the argument that horror movies are losing their box-office appeal because filmmakers no longer know how -- or have any desire -- to create genuine suspense.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2007

The most depressing thing of all is that Michael will likely survive even this dire endeavour.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2007

The set-up is tediously slow, while the later murders are packed so tightly it's like watching a blender on high speed.

| Sep 4, 2007

As a sensory experience, the redo is flat. Even if giving audiences a start were Zombie's strength, fans already know when the scares are coming.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 4, 2007

Even if you consider a Halloween remake sacrilege, you've got to like a truck stop bathroom that's even gnarlier than the one in Trainspotting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2007