I’d like to think that I bring more enthusiasm to my reactions, though with David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills I just can’t find the energy. It’s not that I don’t like it. I thought that the first movie, Halloween (2018) while bringing little that was new to the reboot game, was at least interesting (and […]
I wasn’t a huge fan of David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) reboot because it forgot – if it ever understood in the first place – that John Carpenter’s original 1978 movie was the film that put slasher movies on the map. And I don’t mean that to imply that it was the first, because it […]
I’m a huge aficionado of H.P. Lovecraft’s writing (the man? Not so much), and Stuart Gordon has adapted more of his work than any other director I’m aware of. As a filmmaker he seems to get the randomness, the chaotic nature that lies at the heart of Lovecraft’s work, as well as an aficionado of […]
As I have said time and again, I am not fond of remakes. More often than not they don’t add anything to the original–did we really need to know about Michael Myers difficult upbringing in Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot?–or they add details that seemingly are there just to differentiate them from the original. The thing is, as […]
“Rob Zombie’s remake of John Carpenter’s classic horror film makes some bold choices, but cannot escape the long shadow of the original.” I get what Rob Zombie is trying to do with his remake of John Carpenter’s groundbreaking 1978 film, Halloween,” but it fails for me primarily because it gives so much information. The first […]
Let’s be clear: I don’t think Rob Zombie is a very good director. In fact, his movies on one level can be seem to be primarily vehicles for employing his wife, Sherri Moon Zombie; which I have nothing against because such nepotism in Hollywood–or anywhere else for that matter–isn’t exactly unusual. Judd Apatow gives his […]
When you think of Woolite, the detergent for fine washables, you normally don’t think of Rob Zombie, director of the remakes of Halloween 1 & 2, “The Devil’s Rejects,” and “The House of 1000 Corpses,” as well as the lead singer of White Zombie. But some twisted marketing genius has somehow decided to bring to […]
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