The new Michael Myers

[capncnut]

Here's a sneak peek at the new Michael Myers from Rob Zombie's Halloween courtesy of Bloody Disgusting. Almost looks exactly the same to me.

[bassman]

Yeah...the title of the thread should be "Michael Myers"... It's the same mask. Zombie announced long ago that it would be the same as the original William Shatner mask. Alot of fan boys are complaining about Rob Zombie remaking "Halloween" but I have complete faith in Zombie after seeing "The Devil's Rejects".

[_liam_]

Yeah...the title of the thread should be "Michael Myers"... It's the same mask. Zombie announced long ago that it would be the same as the original William Shatner mask. Alot of fan boys are complaining about Rob Zombie remaking "Halloween" but I have complete faith in Zombie after seeing "The Devil's Rejects". ditto. that movie was more like texas chainsaw/the hills have eyes than the remakes were...

[slickwilly13]

I want to check it out as well. Do yall think this will be a darker and more violent version? I'm assuming so.

[MikePizzoff]

Looks great! Can't wait!!!

[Danny]

he just looks kinda grimer, a litte more "silent hill"-ey to me, doesnt mean its a bad thing.

[MinionZombie]

I'm glad they aren't fudging the look of Myers up (although brooding kid, hmmmm), it suggests that this could be a remake which is actually done properly and with a love for the source material. I certainly have faith in Zombie doing the film justice, and better him than some music video director called Doc McBumblef*ck or some crap. The Devil's Rejects was pure fried gold.

[capncnut]

I'm glad they aren't fudging the look of Myers up (although brooding kid, hmmmm), it suggests that this could be a remake which is actually done properly and with a love for the source material. Yeah, Myers does look freaky as a kid but I'm afraid were all gonna have to get used to that. I read an interview with Zombie recently who said that he plans to go in greater detail about Myers childhood and that the segment may consume a third to half of the movie. Either way, I'm not fussed because I know that Zombie will come up with the goods. The Devil's Rejects is one of my favourite horror movies of all time. It's pretty obvious that Zombie knows all about 50's and 60's era B-movies because it is such an evident influence in his music and films. Think of House of 1000 Corpses, whether people liked it or not, no one can accuse him of botching the Halloween feel: the store, the murder ride, the music, Spaulding etc. Isn't that what the Halloween season is all about? Freakiness.

[coma]

Halloween was about mood and suspence. If he doesnt get that right, it will suck. Whats with the children of the corn looking kid. That just seems...wrong. I thought Halloween WAS dark. How could it be darker?

[MinionZombie]

No more than a third of the movie should be spent on pre-serial killing Myers I reckon. It'd be cool to see some of his time in the nutter-asylum...it's just that pic of the brooding young Myers ... I just don't feel that, it feels forced, whereas the actual Myers I am 'feeling' (not in a rude way ). Hopefully Zombie gets it just right...but if anyone could, it'd be him, so...

[EvilNed]

I'm interested in the remake simply because A) it's done by someone I know can make some good stuff and B) Somehow this feels like Rob Zombie is both having fun and playing with the source material at the same time, without giving it to much of a teeny bopper look (if it was a pure Hollywood remake, Sean Bean would play Dr. Loomis). If it sucks, I'll still have the original masterpiece.

[capncnut]

It'd be cool to see some of his time in the nutter-asylum... Yeah, me too. I wonder if the infamous apple bobbing sequence will be included? If no-one knows what I'm talking about, read the Curtis Richards novelisation. it's just that pic of the brooding young Myers... I just don't feel that, it feels forced. The long hair and miserable face is down to his neglect and constant drugging in the looney bin. Again, see Curtis Richards novelisation for more details.

[MinionZombie]

Read ... a book ... ? Are you funking nuts?! I guess that explains it then. As for this apple bobbing thing, is that like in Halloween 2 at the hospital when a mother escorts her kid who's mouth is all monged up from a razorblade (from an apple I think)? So might we see it in a more up close and personal manner? I wonder where Halloween 2007 will be on the scale between Halloween 1978 and The Devil's Rejects, in terms of violence and gore? Interesting really, with all the horror remakes going on, this is the first of the three main mega-franchise slashers to get the treatment (Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 13th are still untouched at the moment). Could we be about to see the best horror classic remake ever?

[capncnut]

Could we be about to see the best horror classic remake ever? Fingers crossed matey.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

Isn't that what the Halloween season is all about? Freakiness. Not really. You are probably thinking of halloween along the lines of "a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century" whereas the origins of halloween are actually a little closer to home and go along the lines of "Halloween originated under a different name ("samhain") as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with mainly Irish and Scots and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century" Q- As October 31st is the last day of the bright half of the year, the next day also meant the beginning of Winter, which the Celts often associated with human death, and with the slaughter of livestock to provide meat for the coming Winter. The Celts also believed that on October 31, the boundary separating the dead from the living became blurred.