Todd’s Movie Blog

Rob Zombie is coming out with a remake of Halloween II.  After making his less than enjoyable remake of the classic Halloween, he is now remaking the sequel.  There is a certain irony in this.  While his remake of the original film did nothing to improve on that awesome piece of horror, and in many ways completely destroyed any suspense or scares the material contained by including too much back story on Michael Myers and not letting the film build up slowly to a climax, his remake of the sequel will definitely be an improvement on the original.  Why?  Because while the first Halloween was a well crafted suspense filled horror film that utilized a gradual escalation of dramatic tension due to your not knowing when the killer was going to strike, the sequel was an uninspired, by the numbers slasher film with a huge body count of people getting killed with increasingly graphic gore laden methods in an ill advised attempt to emulate the Friday the 13th movies.  Anything Zombie does will be an improvement on that.