Halloween (2007)

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.

Director:

Rob Zombie

Writers:

Rob Zombie (screenplay), John Carpenter

Stars:

Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Malcolm McDowell	...	Dr. Samuel Loomis
Brad Dourif	...	Sheriff Lee Brackett
Tyler Mane	...	Michael Myers
Daeg Faerch	...	Michael Myers, age 10
Sheri Moon Zombie	...	Deborah Myers
William Forsythe	...	Ronnie White
Richard Lynch	...	Principal Chambers
Udo Kier	...	Morgan Walker
Clint Howard	...	Doctor Koplenson
Danny Trejo	...	Ismael Cruz
Lew Temple	...	Noel Kluggs
Tom Towles	...	Larry Redgrave
Bill Moseley	...	Zach 'Z-Man' Garrett
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Patty Frost
Steve Boyles	...	Stan Payne

Storyline

The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?

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Plot Keywords:

evil | female rear nudity | female frontal nudity | female full frontal nudity | slasher | 

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Taglines:

Evil. Unmasked.

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong brutal bloody violence and terror throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity and language

Details

Official Sites:

HalloweenMovies.com: The Official site of Michael Myers

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 August 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Halloween: Retribution

Filming Locations:

Thomas W. Phillips Residence - 2215 S. Harvard Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$26,362,367, 2 September 2007

Gross USA:

$58,272,029

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$80,253,908

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dimension Films, Nightfall Productions, Spectacle Entertainment Group

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min 121 min (unrated) 83 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

DTS SDDS Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Heather Bowen was a finalist for a walk-on role through a contest on the official "Halloween" Website. She won overall through a lottery-style drawing by Moustapha Akkad at the Haddonfield 25 Fan Convention.

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Goofs

(at around 1h 24 mins) When Michael Myers breaks through the bathroom door, an officer shoots him in the left shoulder. They next show Michael stabbing the officer, when he turns to the camera, the bullet hole is gone.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Michael Myers, age 10: Come on, sweetie pie. Morning, Elvis. You're a pretty Elvis, aren't you? Yes, you are.

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Crazy Credits

End credits are inter-cut with home video clips depicting Myers childhood.

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Alternate Versions

Brazilian theatrical version was cut by 26 minutes in order to secure a more commercial 14 years old certificate.

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Connections

Referenced in Phelous & the Movies: A Nightmare on Phelm Street (2011)

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Soundtracks

That's When I'll Stop Loving You
Written by Joe Lervold and Byron Walls
Performed by David Sparkman and The Joel Evans Orchestra
Courtesy of Position Music

User Reviews

It's not John Carpenter it is Rob Zombie. Keep that in your head when you go into this.

This movies takes a different approach to what makes Michael Myers terrifying. In the past his inhuman mas murders were shocking because of the absolute lack of emotion and more machine like manner in which things occur. Zombie offers audiences a background on myers. Where before the terror came in the lack of explanation, Zombie creates terror by showing how empty and how reasonless he was at 10 years old.

An interesting note about the movie is after Michael at 10 you never see his face. This part may not be different from standard Halloween movies, but unlike those, in this film you have already seen Michael's face as a boy. This then leaves the audience placing the boys face beneath the mask of the 30 year old monster making the idea of these overly brutal killings more difficult to chalk up to another death in a slasher flick. The movie gives less focus to Lori Strode and much more focus on Michael and his progressions from 10 to 30.

Zombie makes the smart call of not completely taking his own new plot line, but also not creating an exact carbon copy, leaving in specific scenes and details but still skipping over some of the more memorable ones. No, it is not John Carpenter's movie remastered, but then if you want that just run it through some filters to make his movie look new. Instead, this movie feels like a Zombie movie but in all the right ways. Best Halloween in a very long time.