You know, I'm not so keen on remakes (okay, i hate them!) and this matter even regarding an artist i really like, both for his music and cinematographic production (House of 1000 corpses and The devil's rejects are two hell of movies!) and there are so many bodies in the sea of horror that i have always found a good excuses to avoid it.... but than it happened.
Truth to say, Rob didn't just made a rip-off of one of the most important and iconic movie of the last 40 years but he tried to expand the story going somewhat deeper into Myers' childhood to open a window for us to see how and, maybe, why everything's started.
The first part is all about little Michael's troubles within the family, at school and with other kids but also shows an already kinda of rotten soul who enjoy killing little animals. Was Michael a mind-weak victim, a mere product of what he had to suffer? Or it was a ticking bomb who was just about to explode, no matter what? Hard to say (not only for a work of imagination but it would have been also in reality) what's matter is that now we know something more about a legend as MM really is.
Honestly I didn't found that part that interesting or like something I needed to know... Michael Myers has been (and still is) an incarnation of pure evil, a charismatic presence, a towering concetrate of destruction... This is what our minds, hearts and guts needs to know about him!!
Usually I really love to learn something about the past of the villains that populates our microcosm, I'm eager to see from which pit of hell he/she came out, watching how things decay but Myers ...He is a presence that need no presentation, it's like the boogeyman that lives in your closet : you don't need to know why or what it is to be scared as shit. Michael Myers IS.
Apart from that the movie is enjoyable, with the classic old-style photography and direction that is Zombie's trademark but is clearly way below the grandeur of the original Carpenter flick (maybe this was useless to say).
The cast isn't bad and there are more than one known face, many of them from the previous works of Rob (Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Leslie Easterbrook, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo) plus other big names like Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, William Forsythe and Udo Kier.
Probably the biggest "defeat" is for McDowell, that even with a more complex and deeper character lose his comparison with the original Dr. Loomis portraied by the great Donald Pleasence while the new Myers (Tyler Mane, Troy and X-men) is kinda of anonymous.
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