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31 for 31 Part 4: Halloween (2007)
Rob Zombie’s remake may not be perfect but it is still watchable.
Rob Zombie is a well-known musician and film director. His band, White Zombie, put him on the map, and he has enjoyed a decades-long music career. His love for horror movies led to a second career as a successful film director.
In 2007, Zombie decided to take a stab (pun intended) at doing a reboot of the Halloween franchise. In Zombie’s interpretation, we see Michael Myers’s backstory. Instead of an unstoppable killing machine with no apparent motive, we see Micheal as a mentally ill child who grew up in an abusive home. It was the perfect storm for a killer.
Unlike John Carpenter’s original, Micheal’s first kill is a school bully who makes fun of Micheal’s stripper mother (played by Shari Moon Zombie). Miceal then goes on to kill his abusive stepfather, his sister, and her boyfriend. In the original, Micheal does not have a stepfather. Also, it is made clear the connection between Laurie Strode and Micheal as siblings (this was not revealed in the original, and the sibling connection was since retconned with the trilogy of films from 2018–2022).
We then see Micehal’s life in a mental institution and his violent tendencies. Micheal then escapes when he is in the process of being transferred, and the…