Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's classic Halloween flabbergasted me. Because of its utter disregard for anything that might give someone an excuse to like a movie. Everything about this movie either bored me or pissed me off. The changes Zombie made to the original story were vastly inferior; even the parts he copied were done in a much less frightening manner.
Zombie's version adds 30 minutes to the beginning that attempts to humanize, justify, or reason Michael Myers's homicidal tendencies. Zombie seems to have no idea that it is precisely Myers's lack of background that makes his evil so menacing and terrifying--his actions must always be inexplicable. Not only is Myers given a reason to start killing, the reason is quite possibly the silliest thing about this movie. He kills people because he has an ugly face and wants to hide it from the world with equally ugly masks so that people will stop making fun of him. How is that the recipe for a subhuman serial killing machine?
The rest of the movie is essentially a copy of Carpenter's creation, only crap. Myers's escape from the sanitarium is much less impressive and frightening in this film. All the shots that made you jump in the original are absent. Before, Myers would be in the shadows and dark backgrounds, but you wouldn't see him until he moved. His ubiquity was subtle, and more horrifying for it. Now it just cuts to him, or rack focuses on him; where is the horror? Additionally, the best part about the original--the music--is incredibly underused in this version. And the nudity is gratuitous and tacky in its use. Awful, awful movie.IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0373883/