“Halloween (by Rob Zombie) is a remake.” Not true. It is an homage to a classic film from the Horror/Terror genre that John Carpenter helped spawn.
“Halloween II is a remake of a sequel.” Not true. It is as cognitive a follow-up that has ever been made to a “slasher flick.”
After recalibrating Michael Myers into the most fantastic, horrific, psychotic madman ever in his (Zombie’s) version of Halloween, Rob Zombie has done what no one has ever attempted to do… he challenges us to think realistically about what would happen next. What would actually happen to a psychopath within a year’s time of his escape? What would happen to the mindframe of an unknown psychiatrist thrust into a world of fame and notoriety? Would the sibling of a murderous maniac carry the same demented traits in her bloodline? Would the violent addiction of a mentally deranged killer grow to a horrific culmination?
All of the answers are in this movie! It is the most logical coda in the history of cinema. Everything that you should never see on film is seen. Everything that is not supposed to happen in the movies, happens. Would a non campos mentis, unhinged butcher simply slit a stranger’s throat, or crudely saw off said victim’s head with a piece of jagged windshield? How would this disturbed slayer survive in the wild after being institutionalized for a lifetime? What drives a bedlamite to such violence? What are the visions that he sees in his own mind’s eye that drive him to such carnage? Would anyone so maniacal and hell-bent in the pursuit of one thing, that he slaughters everything that he encounters, ever stop his quest until consummated?
This film is a masterpiece. If you have not seen it, then you must. If you have seen it, then watch it again and heed the logistics of what Zombie has accomplished.
The only question that remains unanswered after this chef d’oeuvre is this: Will Rob Zombie pursue the malicious grin that he has left with us to ponder, or will he find a way to salvage the desolate feeling that Tommy Lee Wallace left for us after the atrophy, Halloween III - The Season of the Witch?
