Halloween A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - R It's 1:49 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

First off let me admit that I don’t remember the original "Halloween" in great detail, mostly because I probably haven’t seen it in like 20 years. I was 11 when it originally was released, and having good parents, there was no way they were going to let me go and see it, but the basic story is the same: Michael Myers, one night as a youngin’ (Daeg Faerch), goes totally nuts and kills his step-dad, his sister Judith (Hanna Hall), along with the sister’s boyfriend. Michael gets sent to the loony bin under the care of Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), but the good doctor can’t break into the psyche of Michael, realizes there is nothing but evil in him, and deserts Michael to write a book.

Of course it’s many years later, Michael breaks out of the loony bin and heads back to his hometown to do some more killing on Halloween, looking to find his baby sister, Boo, who is now Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), and unfortunately for Laurie, she was never told of her family’s past (she was adopted by the Strode family). When she might actually have had a chance to not go through anymore hell, sadly she doesn’t recognize her brother.

Lots of "purists" are questioning a "Halloween" remake, but I have to say that it was refreshing just to see a horror movie again where simplicity is the key in the killings, at the hand of a giant knife or a baseball bat, lots of kids in high school are having sex, the girls get topless, they are all pretty stupid, and the girls can scream with the best of them. And, oh yea, no one ever truly finishes off the crazy killer when they have the chance. For a new generation of kids who haven’t seen the classics us older folks remember, maybe it’s time to re-visit them, and I thought Rob Zombie did a great job.

The other thing Rob Zombie did, but I thought he actually fell a little short, was he delved into why Michael Myers turned into the psychopath he became. Mom (Rob Zombie’s hot wife, Sheri Moon Zombie) is a stripper, the step-dad is an abusive alcoholic who ogles Judith, Judith is pretty much a slut, and Michael constantly gets picked on in school, with mom’s profession not helping any. As Dr. Loomis puts it, Michael is in the perfect storm of outside influences to create a monster.

The movie has plenty of screaming, lots of girls getting topless, some suspense, stupid people, and lots of quality kills - What else do you want in a classic horror flick? Personally, though, I think Zombie missed the boat by not doing more of a prequel, profiling Michael growing up as a toddler up to the point he decided to gut his sister, ending the film there. Sure it might have been harder to insert stupid teenagers having sex and getting naked, but a creepier movie might have been seeing the abuse Michael takes from birth (there was a slight, incestuous undertone as Michael stroked his finger up his sister's leg before he kills her), how his passion for killing animals develops (maybe Zombie didn't want to piss off PETA), how Michael seemed to develop the dual personalities (hinted at during the scenes in the sanitarium where he doesn’t remember killing his sister), end ending with the climactic massacre at the Myers’ household. That’s just me.

A great film in the horror genre of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, so I’m going to give Rob Zombie’s take on "Halloween" 4 stars out of 5.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!