Phantascene.com's Journal: Halloween The Movie - Written and Directed by Rob Zombie

I love horror movies that are less blood and gore and more a good old "BOO!" scare. One of my favorites is the 1985 classic Fright Night, while not exactly on the same level as those classics such as Halloween, Fright Night is nevertheless a good film for being spooked. I also love IT, the 1990 made for TV version of the Stephen King classic. IT is a film that preys on the fears of childhood, unknown horrors that stalk the innocent.

Much like Mike Myers of Halloween stalks his victim. The latest Halloween film is a remake of the 1978 classic. Halloween the movie is written and directed by Rob Zombie, so I think that you can be sure that the remake will live up to the legend of the original film.

Rob's wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, will have a role in Halloween as Deborah Myers, mother of Mike Myers (Daeg Faerch - child, Tyler Mane - adult). I shiver just looking at the IMDB picture of Daeg Faerch staring blankly at the camera. The kid has a deffinate skill at pulling off what I think will be a perfect role as the child version of Mike Myers.

Tyler Mane, who portrays the adult Mike Myers, is perhaps best known as his role of Sabretooth in the X-Men (2000) and may just coax me into watching Halloween, particularly when you add in Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Loomis. I'm leery of just how much blood there might be in he film, but I know that Rob Zombie us a major horror film fan so I am hoping that he at least kept it to a believable level. I'm mainly opposed to the films where it gets unreasonably graphic and you have blood splattering all over the place just because the director can't tell a scary story without thinking they have to gross the audience out as well. I'm thinking Rob Zombie might just be able to scare the hell out of you without leaving you unable to keep your lunch down.

Watching the following trailer reinforces this for me and makes me even more interested in seeing just how Rob Zombie has managed to remake this film. A film that I anticipate will be scary good fun to watch and leave the audience with a chilled sensation that for me is the entire reason for watching a good horror film. You want to shiver when it's over and get up to turn on the lights. You want to scream when the person sitting beside you in the theater taps you on the shoulder.

I think Halloween the movie will pull that off, and while I would not recommend it to anyone that don't like a good scare, I would definitely suggest anyone that loved the original version, or that loves a good horror movie, to check it out.