'H2', Rob Zombie's sequel to 'Halloween'

[Marx]

Yeah, considering he was a bigger part you could say. Since he was in 5 movies compared to her 2 movies, 3 if you really wanna count Resurrection.

Curtis was technically in 4 Halloween movies. (H1, H2, H20, and that piece of crap that followed H20.) But yeah, there is definitely an argument to be made that he was a bigger part.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Curtis was technically in 4 Halloween movies. (H1, H2, H20, and that piece of crap that followed H20.) But yeah, there is definitely an arguement to be made that he was a bigger part.

oh yeah, forgot about H20.

 

[The Joker]

Cool, that be great if you did.

No problem. I'll do them right now...

I'm glad to hear that Curtis' Strode made the list...but that is surprising that Pleasance's Loomis didn't make it.

Yes, but Curtis' Laurie Strode was also the template for the slasher heroines of all the future slasher flicks. The good girl, virgin, sweet and likeable, who overcomes the killer at the end.

So in that way her character also lives on, IMO. And I just love Randy's speech in Scream about Jamie Lee Curtis

 

[Marx]

Yes, but Curtis' Laurie Strode was also the template for the slasher heroines of all the future slasher flicks. The good girl, virgin, sweet and likeable, who overcomes the killer at the end.

So in that way her character also lives on, IMO. And I just love Randy's speech in Scream about Jamie Lee Curtis

That's a very good point Joker. (And I also loved Randy's speech in Scream. )

 

[The Apatow Crew]

And I just love Randy's speech in Scream about Jamie Lee Curtis

You mean how she didn't show her T*ts til she want legit?

 

[The Joker]

Ok, here's the Jason and Freddy scans, as requested. I'll put 'em in spoiler tags so they don't look too out of place in the Halloween thread.


Jason:

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Freddy:

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[B]

I just saw this this morning, disappointed with it overall..

I thought after the first film Zombie was heading in a good enough direction, he was trying to fill in the blanks with the Michael Myers character, it worked well enough in his first version of the film, but not for me in this one with the whole taking orders from his dead mother on a white horse & his younger self. On the plus side I loved how brutal Myers was.

I didn't like Dr Loomis at all in this film.. or really the first Zombie film either. He seemed like a grade A tool.. a big leap from Donald Pleasence's version of the character & a leap I don't care for..

Laurie Strode didn't seem right to me either, I always thought she "should" be portrayed as a clean cut grade A student who eventually overcomes her fear of the Michael Myers character to stop him.. not one who becomes arguably even more mentally unstable than Myers..
I suppose the ending was the main thing that really bothered me with the Laurie Strode character..

While I do like the filling the blanks idea in principle that Zombie seemed to be going for, I wasn't keen on how he went about it at all in this film. He should have just did exactly the same as he did with the first film. Take the original & put his own spin on the same film without distancing himself from it. He should have taken the original 2nd film (set in that same night) & show Michael making his way to the hospital hurt from a gunshot rather than presumed dead..

Part of the reason the first 2 original Halloween films where good/classic(s)/scary (& I suppose 4 & 5) where because Michael Myers was so mysterious he had little background story with blanks left unfilled.. despite the fact he'd been shot 6 times & survived he still seemed like he could be killed. I don't like this Jason like crap where it seems as though nothing can kill him.

Overall as I said I'm disappointed with this film & I hope its the end of Zombie's franchise.. his franchise is over for me anyway. I'm not even going to entertain another Rob Zombie Halloween 3 film if Myers is involved because there's no way he can still be considered alive, we would be crossing from Michael Myers to Jason territory with the repeated coming back crap..

I'll leave you with a few comment(s) on the film by a person who was in front of me as I exited the cinema:
"Rob Zombie should have his throat slashed"
"Ruined a classic.."

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Yeah, considering he was a bigger part you could say. Since he was in 5 movies compared to her 2 movies, 3 if you really wanna count Resurrection.

Agreed.

 

[The Joker]

Laurie was in four movies, not three. Halloween 1, 2, H20, and HR.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Btw, guys, I think H3D starts filming in the spring.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

H3D is dead in the water at the moment.

 

[Marx]

Thankfully.

 

[Nathan]

Part of the reason the first 2 original Halloween films where good/classic(s)/scary (& I suppose 4 & 5) where because Michael Myers was so mysterious he had little background story with blanks left unfilled.. despite the fact he'd been shot 6 times & survived he still seemed like he could be killed. I don't like this Jason like crap where it seems as though nothing can kill him.

Overall as I said I'm disappointed with this film & I hope its the end of Zombie's franchise.. his franchise is over for me anyway. I'm not even going to entertain another Rob Zombie Halloween 3 film if Myers is involved because there's no way he can still be considered alive, we would be crossing from Michael Myers to Jason territory with the repeated coming back crap..

Uhm... didn't Myers get shot in both eyes, set on fire and blown up in the original 2nd movie?

 

[Marx]

Uhm... didn't Myers get shot in both eyes, set on fire and blown up in the original 2nd movie?

It's also important to remember that the original movies referred to Michael as 'the shape'...not a fleshed out human being that everyone could relate to. (Like Zombie's version.)

 

[The Dark Defender]

Btw, guys, I think H3D starts filming in the spring.

It's been delayed because the Weinsteins don't have the money to fund it at the moment and Lussier is starting another job soon...it's been written already though.

 

[mclay18]

H3D is dead in the water at the moment.

At the moment being the imperative phrase. I wouldn't be surprised to see production for H3D rev up as soon as Drive Angry enters post-production. Like what every studio is doing nowadays, the Weinsteins want to strike while the iron is hot on 3-D horror movies.

I do like how the special effects makeup artist says it's more of a tribute to the original movie rather than a straight-up followup to RZ's (mis)handling of the series. But the end result could be vastly different.

 

[The Shape]

It's also important to remember that the original movies referred to Michael as 'the shape'...not a fleshed out human being that everyone could relate to. (Like Zombie's version.)

Who can relate to Zombie's version besides 7-foot hillbillies?

 

[Marx]

Who can relate to Zombie's version besides 7-foot hillbillies?

I think you know what I mean.

Carpenter's Michael was an 'evil, monster' known as the Shape. Zombie's Michael is a kid with mother issues.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Sounds odd, but I could relate to Carpenters' The Shape.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Anyone have a idea of when H2 comes to dvd? Maybe at the end of the year?

 

[Nightmare]

Wonder if Zombie will release 2 versions as he did with the first movie. A 3 disc 7 hour behind the scenes making of version.

 

[B]

Uhm... didn't Myers get shot in both eyes, set on fire and blown up in the original 2nd movie?

I don't think he was blown up but he was shot in the face & torched, somehow he survived.

He was shown as badly injured in the 4th installment when he escaped & wrapped up in heavy bandages..

Dispite all the damage he did take in 1, 2, 4 & 5 I still got the impression that he was killable. After 5 I it started to get too close to Jason like for my taste.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Wonder if Zombie will release 2 versions as he did with the first movie. A 3 disc 7 hour behind the scenes making of version.

That would be awesome! Sadly, I don't have the 3-disc version of Halloween (2007). I only have the 2 disc unrated version.

 

[The Joker]

Who can relate to Zombie's version besides 7-foot hillbillies?

 

[Fresh Prince]

I don't think he was blown up but he was shot in the face & torched, somehow he survived.

He was shown as badly injured in the 4th installment when he escaped & wrapped up in heavy bandages..

Dispite all the damage he did take in 1, 2, 4 & 5 I still got the impression that he was killable. After 5 I it started to get too close to Jason like for my taste.

With the thorn cruse angle thought he was unkillable.