Haig Caretakes On HALLOWEEN

I agree with Jarrod that while this may not be the Halloween I grew up with, it will be a good "reimagining" and a good horror film in its own right. I still have some reservations about showing too much about Michael's life, because it takes away some of the mystique of "the shape."

i think Zombie feels much like those film directors of the 70's that held their little "stable" of reusable actors in each of their films... Haig and Mosley go hand in hand and are quickly becoming Rob's personal choice for actors and actor cameos. (I personally like Haig and have met Mosley too) they seem like great guys!

Coincidentally, mckracken, when i think of a director who works with his talent over and over, I think of John Carpenter first. Kurt (Escapes,Thing, BTiLC), Donald Pleasance (Halloween, Prince of darkness, Escape) Adrienne Barbeau (escape, fog) Jamie Lee (Halloween, fog), on and on...

Can't freakin wait for this movie!!!

I am a huge fan of the Halloween Trilogy (Halloween, Halloween II, and Halloween: H20) and there is no way Zombie will be able to remake that movie. Halloween is to the Horror genre as Alien is to the Sci-Fi genre. Carpenter's new take on Horror movies (later dubbed "Slasher Flicks") changed the genre forever.

That being said... don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to seeing this movie, on it's own merits. I see this like the old time fables like 'Snow White', 'Alice in Wonderland', and etc.... with every retelling of the story some things change but it's still the same story.

I like Zombie's first two films and think that his eye for the macabre is exactly what we need to breath some life into the Horror genre, amongst all these teenie-bopper-PG-13-scare-tactics movies.

I'm with wessmith though. I too am weary on the "back story" bit. Through out the whole slew of crappy sequels to this title we heard different expainations to Myer's madness and super-natural ability to come back to life. I am just hoping that Zombie's intentions are to build a solid ground for the rest of the movie .... and hopfully a sequel.

Rob Zombie said himself that he's giving this a movie a definitive ending and that he absolutely isn't going to do a sequel Then he went on to say that doesn't mean the studio won't do one without him. And then I think he said it might be hard because of how he ends it. I'm stoked.

Does he kill Jamie Lloyd(his niece) from...the fourth or fifth installment was it?

Why the hell am I looking forward to this movie so much?

20105, 4th and 5th, but her character isn't in this movie. It is a re-imagining of the original. danielle Harris who played JL is in it, but she plays the friend originally played by PJ soles, that was strangled with the phone cord.

I'm with you captmorgan77 - those are the ONLY films that I consider part of the series. I can't believe they even tried to continue after H20. What a great way to have ended things and it's a damn shame they followed it up with the absolute worst of the bad Halloween films.

Anyway - can't say I'm psyched for this. House of 1000 was something I just couldn't get into. Never bothered with Devils Rejects. Agree with most y'all that part of The Shape's appeal is that you just don't know why he's doing what he's doing. I am digging the cast though and begrudgingly warming up to the idea.

Thanks for the info., bjjdenver. I like when someone sneaks those kind of "hidden jewels" into a movie.