This one knocked me for a six. Immensely disappointed with Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's horror classic—my expectations may have been too high maybe—but as far as I am concerned it is a turgid overblown mess of a film. Personally, I felt he should have left it alone or done another sequel. Instead, he has ended up paving the way for a sequel to his own vision of 'Halloween' and has come out on top. The strength of this film lies with the strong visual approach and while loaded with dark and negative imagery, he has also made it look beautiful, potent and alluring, with oodles of atmosphere.
The psychotic Michael Myers is roaming the countryside after escaping a formidable ambulance crash that was transporting his presumably dead body. He is aided by ethereal, schizophrenic visions of his mother and a symbolic white horse in search of Laurie Strode—played with hysterical relish and anguish by Scout Taylor-Compton—to unify them as a family once more. The first act is set in a hospital and I suppose in a sense is Zombie's remake of Rick Rosenthal's creepy and bloody 'Halloween 2' from 1981'. After that it opens up for a dark; violent; gritty and sometimes surreal journey of Myers hunting down Laurie and dispatching any unwary victims in bloody and brutal fashion that get in his way.
Malcolm McDowell returns as Dr. Loomis and along with his cohort played by Caroline Williams offer some comic relief as they both ham it up, but in a harmonized way that blends quite conscientiously with the reign of terror usurped by Myers. The violence perpetrated in this film is quite raw. While graphic and brutal, it is not overdone and is edited in a skillful and frenzied fashion that can give the appearance we are actually seeing more than we really are.
Zombie's grasp of the film medium is professionally realized here. While there have been many detractors to this sequel, I feel that from a cinematic aspect this film is a very strong accomplishment and another deep dark notch in Zombie's tenebrous career.
The psychotic Michael Myers is roaming the countryside after escaping a formidable ambulance crash that was transporting his presumably dead body. He is aided by ethereal, schizophrenic visions of his mother and a symbolic white horse in search of Laurie Strode—played with hysterical relish and anguish by Scout Taylor-Compton—to unify them as a family once more. The first act is set in a hospital and I suppose in a sense is Zombie's remake of Rick Rosenthal's creepy and bloody 'Halloween 2' from 1981'. After that it opens up for a dark; violent; gritty and sometimes surreal journey of Myers hunting down Laurie and dispatching any unwary victims in bloody and brutal fashion that get in his way.
Malcolm McDowell returns as Dr. Loomis and along with his cohort played by Caroline Williams offer some comic relief as they both ham it up, but in a harmonized way that blends quite conscientiously with the reign of terror usurped by Myers. The violence perpetrated in this film is quite raw. While graphic and brutal, it is not overdone and is edited in a skillful and frenzied fashion that can give the appearance we are actually seeing more than we really are.
Zombie's grasp of the film medium is professionally realized here. While there have been many detractors to this sequel, I feel that from a cinematic aspect this film is a very strong accomplishment and another deep dark notch in Zombie's tenebrous career.
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