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Halloween

  • 20072007
  • RR
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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Brad Dourif, Malcolm McDowell, Danny Trejo, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Lew Temple, and Daeg Faerch in Halloween (2007)
What is Halloween without Michael Myers?  From John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) to Halloween Kills (2021), we look back at the 12 films in this slasher franchise.
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'Halloween' | Franchise Retrospective
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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 siste... Read allAfter 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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
119K
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POPULARITY
2,192
114
  • Director
    • Rob Zombie
  • Writers
    • Rob Zombie(screenplay)
    • John Carpenter(1978 screenplay)
    • Debra Hill(1978 screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Scout Taylor-Compton
    • Malcolm McDowell
    • Tyler Mane
Top credits
  • Director
    • Rob Zombie
  • Writers
    • Rob Zombie(screenplay)
    • John Carpenter(1978 screenplay)
    • Debra Hill(1978 screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Scout Taylor-Compton
    • Malcolm McDowell
    • Tyler Mane
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1.2KUser reviews
    • 351Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations

    Videos2

    'Halloween' | Franchise Retrospective
    Clip 2:30
    'Halloween' | Franchise Retrospective
    How David Gordon Green Made the 'Halloween' He Wanted to See
    Interview 2:04
    How David Gordon Green Made the 'Halloween' He Wanted to See

    Photos204

    Scout Taylor-Compton and Tyler Mane in Halloween (2007)
    Scout Taylor-Compton and Tyler Mane in Halloween (2007)
    Sheri Moon Zombie and Daeg Faerch in Halloween (2007)
    Tyler Mane in Halloween (2007)
    Scout Taylor-Compton and Tyler Mane in Halloween (2007)
    Tyler Mane and Kristina Klebe in Halloween (2007)
    Malcolm McDowell and Scout Taylor-Compton in Halloween (2007)
    Scout Taylor-Compton, Danielle Harris, and Kristina Klebe in Halloween (2007)
    Rob Zombie in Halloween (2007)
    Brandon Molale and Kimberly Wolfe at an event for Halloween (2007)
    Danny Trejo and Debbie Trejo at an event for Halloween (2007)
    Dee Wallace at an event for Halloween (2007)

    Top cast

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    Scout Taylor-Compton
    Scout Taylor-Compton
    • Laurie Strodeas Laurie Strode
    Malcolm McDowell
    Malcolm McDowell
    • Dr. Samuel Loomisas Dr. Samuel Loomis
    Tyler Mane
    Tyler Mane
    • Michael Myersas Michael Myers
    Brad Dourif
    Brad Dourif
    • Sheriff Lee Brackettas Sheriff Lee Brackett
    Daeg Faerch
    Daeg Faerch
    • Michael Myers, age 10as Michael Myers, age 10
    Sheri Moon Zombie
    Sheri Moon Zombie
    • Deborah Myersas Deborah Myers
    William Forsythe
    William Forsythe
    • Ronnie Whiteas Ronnie White
    Richard Lynch
    Richard Lynch
    • Principal Chambersas Principal Chambers
    Udo Kier
    Udo Kier
    • Morgan Walkeras Morgan Walker
    Clint Howard
    Clint Howard
    • Doctor Koplensonas Doctor Koplenson
    Danny Trejo
    Danny Trejo
    • Ismael Cruzas Ismael Cruz
    Lew Temple
    Lew Temple
    • Noel Kluggsas Noel Kluggs
    Tom Towles
    Tom Towles
    • Larry Redgraveas Larry Redgrave
    Bill Moseley
    Bill Moseley
    • Zach 'Z-Man' Garrettas Zach 'Z-Man' Garrett
    Leslie Easterbrook
    Leslie Easterbrook
    • Patty Frostas Patty Frost
    Steve Boyles
    • Stan Payneas Stan Payne
    Danielle Harris
    Danielle Harris
    • Annie Brackettas Annie Brackett
    Skyler Gisondo
    Skyler Gisondo
    • Tommy Doyleas Tommy Doyle
    • Director
      • Rob Zombie
    • Writers
      • Rob Zombie(screenplay)
      • John Carpenter(1978 screenplay)
      • Debra Hill(1978 screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Malcolm McDowell ruined a great number of takes by invoking hysterical laughter in the other actors.
    • Goofs
      (at around 33 mins) No asylum where a character is imprisoned as criminally insane would give inmates metal forks. They would be replaced by plastic cutlery, for exactly the reasons that they end up being used here - fear of being used as weapons to attack staff or other inmates.
    • Quotes

      Dr. Samuel Loomis: His eyes will deceive you; they will destroy you. They will take from you your innocence, your pride, and eventually your soul. These eyes do not see what you and I see. Behind these eyes one finds only blackness, the absence of light. These are the eyes of a psychopath.

    • Crazy credits
      End credits are inter-cut with home video clips depicting Myers childhood.
    • Alternate versions
      Brazilian theatrical version was cut by 26 minutes in order to secure a more commercial 14 years old certificate.
    • Connections
      Featured in Howard Stern on Demand: Liz Call/Gary Screws Up (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      God of Thunder
      Written by Paul Stanley

      Performed by KISS

      Courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

    User reviews1.2K

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    Top review
    4/10
    Rob Zombie tries to give a monster a soul.
    On paper, a "Halloween" remake looked interesting. Zombie tries to go back to the character's origin and reinvent him - it's a recent trend in Hollywood ("Batman Begins," "Casino Royale," the upcoming "Incredible Hulk," etc.), so it's not quite surprising that Hollywood greenlit the project and it got the push it received.

    But the problem that arises while doing this with "Halloween" is that it comes into conflict with the concept of Michael being purely evil. Although I can understand what Zombie was trying to do by exploring Michael's background, it contradicts the whole point of the original. By providing a reason and displaying a human character on screen, you give the character a soul - and despite what Zombie may claim, this does NOT make Michael scarier. It makes him an average movie serial killer: a guy with a messed up life as a kid who snaps one day and goes on a killing rampage.

    Is it scary? No. Gory? Yes. Realistic? At first. And if it were a movie about a serial killer, it would work. But it's not. This is a movie about a monster, a soulless creature; a boogeyman, as per the original film. Monsters aren't scary when we know they're flesh and blood.

    Carpenter had a way of framing the action in the original movie. Michael stalks Laurie in her hometown, but we never see any real flesh behind the mask, we never really see him moving around like a normal human being. But we do here. He stands in the middle of an open road, in front of three teenage girls walking home from school, and they all see him. He stands there for a few moments, then trudges away off-screen. We actually see him walk away, instead of just appearing and disappearing as he did in the original film. Which method is scarier? The answer is clear.

    Zombie spends 40 minutes or so building up Michael's character before he escapes from the ward. We see him killing animals as a child (and torturing them, too), a stupid subplot with his mom as a stripper and a typical school bully, and a promiscuous sister. The sexual talk is frank and disgusting - the mom's boyfriend (husband?) is talking about how cute her daughter's butt is, and at this point in the film we're not sure whether he might even be the father. It's just shock for shock value. Zombie has a tendency of this - blunt violence and blunt dialogue combined - and in a film like this, it seems cheap and fake and unnecessary. The heavy emphasis placed on the swearing - and I mean this literally (as in, the actors place a noticeable emphasis on the profanity they use) is almost unintentionally funny. Zombie cast his wife in the role of Michael's mother, and she can't act at all.

    Donald Pleasence got stuck with the most unfortunate lines from the original film, but we were willing to forgive bad dialogue because of how well-made the film was otherwise. Here, Malcolm McDowell gets the worst of two worlds: he gets to handle an under-characterization with bad, bad, BAD dialogue AND a generally weak film to boot. The sequences with McDowell's version of Loomis are all completely clichéd - Zombie clearly writes his dialogue based on other films' dialogue. The "intimate" scenes at the mental ward between Loomis and Michael are awful. McDowell struggles with typicalities of the genre, such as the Dr. Who Wasted His Own Life By Devoting It To Someone Else's (he explains to Michael that his wife left him and he has no friends because of how involved he became with the case - and the dialogue itself is straight from any cop-vs.-killer flick). The recent film "Zodiac" had a similar theme of men losing their personal lives due to obsession over a murderer, but it was handled better. The whole Loomis character should have been dropped from the remake if all Zombie wanted to do with him was use him as a deus ex machina, by the way.

    Overall, this feels like a redneck version of "Halloween," which is going to offend some people, but I can't think of any better way to describe it. It's trashy, vulgar, and silly - and hey, that's fine, if that's Rob Zombie's motif and he wants to make movies pandering towards that sort of audience. I have nothing against it, and I think it may work with some films - I can imagine him making a good re-do of "Natural Born Killers" (although I hope it never, never happens!).

    However, when you're remaking an iconic, legendary, incredibly influential horror film - don't cheapen it by "reimagining" it with horror movie clichés and shock-value material. The very worst aspect of this remake is that it simply isn't scary at all - it's a typical slasher flick, a homicidal-man-on-a-rampage flick, which ironically is exactly what Zombie said he wanted to avoid.

    The first film was eerie, spooky, and unnerving because Michael's motivations were cloudy and we weren't sure whether Laurie was right or wrong when she said he was the boogeyman. We only knew one thing: he wasn't entirely human.

    But ever since that original movie, the filmmakers have attempted to keep expanding upon Michael's history: the second film developed a motivation for his killings (Laurie was his sister), the fourth offered more clues at his background, and now we come full circle with a complete remake of the original film.

    Michael's true demonic core - the natural horror element of the series - is stripped bare and all that is left is a disturbed, abnormally tall redneck with greasy hair who hasn't showered in years wearing a silly mask going around killing people because he had an abusive family life as a child. Some things are better left unexplored.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 31, 2007 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • HalloweenMovies.com: The Official site of Michael Myers
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Halloween: Retribution
    • Filming locations
      • 1110 Glendon Way, South Pasadena, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Dimension Films
      • Nightfall Productions
      • Spectacle Entertainment Group
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $58,272,029
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $26,362,367
      • Sep 2, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $80,460,948
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 49 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • SDDS
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1(original/open matte)

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