Halloween Remake Thread...

[the_ultimate_evil]

i enjoyed it, it wasn't amazing but it wasnt as crap as i lead to believe, some of the changes are interesting, micheal seemed to lose a lot of the creppyness factor, but that was fine, because what you learned about him did make him more distrubing

though i will admit i wasn't that big a fan of the original

 

[GoldGoblin]

Trick R Treat certainly looks awesome.

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Yeah it does,too bad it got pushed back.

Plus, an attempt at a Halloween 3 style continuation of this would do just what Halloween 3 did, flop HARD.

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Only if they didn't get a good director,didn't have a good script,and didn't rush it.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Just got done watching this. I give it a 7.5. I thought all the actors/actress did a terrific job in their roles. I like how McDowell didn't try to impersenate Donald Pleasance from the original. He seemed to keep the character his own.

Scout Taylor-Compton played the role of Laurie ok. I thought her character could have been a little more soft and paranoid. Much like the Laurie from the original.

I loved how Rob Zombie told the story of Michael in the beginning. You really get a sense of the character and what he's about to become. The ending was alright, although the movie seemed rushed at the end. The movie was better than I expected and I think Rob did a great job. I hope we get a sequel.

 

[WorthyStevens]

 

[Shoemeister]

Cool. Zombie's Halloween actually surprised me. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'll probably buy the DVD.

 

[Spidey_87]

I saw this twice, and I loved it. I respect Zombie even more as a director because he there is basically his own original movie within the context of a remake.

So when exactly is this out on DVD?

 

[The Dark Defender]

December 18th.

 

[bingy13]

They should have just rushed the DVD release date to get it out on October 30th.

 

[Drizzle]

I'll definitely buy the DVD, which is unusual for me since I rarely buy horror movies.

 

[The Joker]

I'll definitely be buying the DVD. Loved the movie.

 

[The Dark Defender]

They should have just rushed the DVD release date to get it out on October 30th.

Not if you want good special features.

 

[WorthyStevens]

Rob Zombie's Halloween DVD Specs
Source: Genius Entertainment,Fangoria
October 23, 2007


Love it, hate it or sandwich yourself somewhere in between, no other film this year pushed the horror community to the brink of civil war like Rob Zombie's Halloween did. Genius Entertainment releases the redo on December 18th in theatrical and "director's cut" two-disc special editions. Specs have come down the pipe, here's what to expect...

• Audio commentary by writer/director Zombie
• 17 deleted scenes with optional Zombie commentary
• Alternate ending
• Re-Imagining Halloween documentary
• A Conversation With Rob Zombie featurette
• Meet the Cast featurette
• The Many Masks of Michael Myers featurette
• Bloopers
• Casting session footage
• Laurie Strode screen test

The director's cut of the film will run eleven minutes longer than its theatrical counterpart. Cover art is on the way...

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=1695

 

[Eelectro 2]

that sounds awesome that theres going to be a longer directors cut version, definetly be picking that up then

 

[bullets]

i cant wait to hear the director s commentary

 

[OobeDoobBenubi]

I guess everything that was in the work print not in the theatrical will be in the directors cut

 

[Sawyer]

So, yesterday I watched Halloween 5, 6 and H20, and I realized that Halloween might just be the most inconsistant franchise ever. The first was a great film, possibly the best of the series. The second was fair, but not as good as the original. The third didnt have a damn thing to do with anything. The fourth was alright, but not the best. The fifth was pretty bad, but not the worst. The sixth almost didnt feel like it was connected with the rest of the series, but I thought it was good/wierd. H20 was probably the best sequel, but felt too much like a 90s teen horror movie. Ressurection was pretty awful. And now the remake.

 

[Rez]

I would have preferred the series to continue along the lines of Halloween 3 and just be a random anthology series. Would have kicked ass.

 

[Drizzle]

I guess everything that was in the work print not in the theatrical will be in the directors cut

Or in the deleted scenes.

 

[bullets]

I would have preferred the series to continue along the lines of Halloween 3 and just be a random anthology series. Would have kicked ass.

it didnt work because people pay money to see michael myers and if you try that people will rally against it and say we want michael back.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

I would have preferred the series to continue along the lines of Halloween 3 and just be a random anthology series. Would have kicked ass.

I agree with this, it would have been a hell of a lot more interesting.

 

[†~AntiChrist~†]

Not better than the original..but still pretty good...Im definately buying it to add to my collection.,,

 

[WorthyStevens]

Halloween DVD: Rob Zombie Clears the Air
By: BC

Halloween DVD: Writer/Director Rob Zombie
On DVD December 18th
By: BC

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, is mistakenly released from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

BD: So the unrated cut is NOT the “workprint” version, correct?

I don’t know what this bull**** workprint is, something got online which I never saw. But during the course of cutting a movie, there’s like 50 different ‘workprints’, you know what I mean? So whatever’s online, I don’t know. Because every day you recut the movie and it’s different. So the version from the day that someone decided to steal the movie and put it online is one of the 300 versions we were cutting. So I don’t know what that is, but the one on the Unrated DVD is not that. The Unrated version has stuff no one has ever seen; stuff that was never in any cut. And also we went back and made it real movie - redo the music, redo the sound, remix it, make it all look good. The unrated version is definitely the most deluxe version of all.

BD: Sometimes on these recut versions we end up actually LOSING some stuff that was in the theatrical for one reason or another; is that going to be the case here?

There’s one thing from the theatrical that’s gone. I filmed two different scenes for when Michael escapes from Smith’s Grove. And the one that’s in the unrated version, I went back to the original scene that I filmed, which I liked better. Because I was never really sure, sometimes you film something and you’re not sure if it works, and then you get a chance to go back and put in the original version. And the theatrical version will be released too, so that lets people get what they want.

BD: How about Bob’s death? In the ‘workprint’ his death was totally different...

That’s not back in any cut, that’s a deleted scene.

BD: How about the Adrienne Barbeau scene?

That’s another deleted one. That was one I just didn’t like how it came out. With the Bob’s death thing, it was kind of weird, because what happened that night, that was not what I ever intended to film. But, as with anything, the schedule... when you’re making a movie you just run out of time, you know? And we were filming in Pasadena, and they shut you down by a certain hour, so I was like “**** I’m gonna be shut down any minute, I gotta film SOMETHING to conclude Bob’s story.” So I filmed that, but I never really wanted it. So later I filmed it the way it was originally intended.

BD: And one other one I was curious on: the graveyard scene with Michael digging up the tombstone?

That’s a deleted scene too. Some of those things too you can’t really cut back into the movie because the timeline wouldn’t make sense. You know, “how can he be here when we just saw him there?” So some of those scenes didn’t go back in not because they were bad or anything, but they just wouldn’t fit in the timeline.

BD: So in addition to the new stuff in the film, there is also going to be a whole bunch of deleted scenes separate?

Yeah there’s tons of stuff that I deleted from the movie, because you don’t think it’s good enough to be in there, or you just don’t need it. The one thing about unrated cut is that you don’t want to shove a bunch of crap in there, so people watching the unrated cut say “Wow this version is long and boring.” It’s longer, but I didn’t put in anything I didn’t feel made the movie better. I didn’t just put in anything just to put it in there.

BD: Which ending are we going to get?

The theatrical ending is the only ending to me. The other ending is like a deleted scene; I just never thought it worked.

BD: And are we going to get another documentary like 30 Days In Hell?

Sort of, we filmed an entire documentary, of which we didn’t have time to finish. But what we did was make a bunch of smaller documentaries. Some day when we have time we’ll cut the 2 hr documentary, but on the DVD it’s broken up: one about the actors, one about Michael Myers, one about the mask... there’s like 4 or 5 smaller documentaries. One’s just about the cinematography.

BD: Plus there will be commentaries and stuff, right?

Yeah, there’s a lot of everything. I packed the two discs with as much as they would accommodate. So there are all the deleted scenes, which there are quite a bit, interviews with all the actors, the documentaries, casting sessions, commentaries, blooper reels, basically everything we could find.

BD: So moving on from Halloween... where the hell did this CHUD rumor come from?

Where does any rumor come from? Somebody just says it and everyone starts to believe it. And sometimes the rumors have a bit of truth to them, like someone sent me a script or whatever, but this one was just 100% false. I don’t know if they are really even remaking it; I haven’t heard anything at all.

BD: So what IS next? Superbeasto?

Superbeasto’s almost finished. I’m on tour now; I don’t get off tour until February. At which time we will finally finish the music on Superbeasto and it’ll be done, but I don’t know when the release is yet. And then I’ll be working on the next movie; compiling what it will be. Everyone’s on strike so you can’t do anything right now but once all that blows over, we’ll start the next thing.

BD: OK one final question: Is Loomis dead or not?

Whatever they want it to be! (Laughs) It’s up to Malek Akkad. I said “I know what he is, but you can do whatever you want with him!”

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/feature/434

 

[Figs]

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http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/feature/434

Quotes that caught my attention. I like where Zombie's head is at when it comes to editing and final cuts.

BD: And one other one I was curious on: the graveyard scene with Michael digging up the tombstone?

That’s a deleted scene too. Some of those things too you can’t really cut back into the movie because the timeline wouldn’t make sense. You know, “how can he be here when we just saw him there?” So some of those scenes didn’t go back in not because they were bad or anything, but they just wouldn’t fit in the timeline.

BD: So in addition to the new stuff in the film, there is also going to be a whole bunch of deleted scenes separate?

Yeah there’s tons of stuff that I deleted from the movie, because you don’t think it’s good enough to be in there, or you just don’t need it. The one thing about unrated cut is that you don’t want to shove a bunch of crap in there, so people watching the unrated cut say “Wow this version is long and boring.” It’s longer, but I didn’t put in anything I didn’t feel made the movie better. I didn’t just put in anything just to put it in there.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

::Adds Halloween to his list of DVD's to purchase::

 

[The Shape]

This was decent, but I only really enjoyed it because I love anything with Michael Myers. I'll be getting this DVD.