“Halloween” (2007) and “Halloween 2” (2009).
I’m not a huge fan of Rob Zombie’s films and I never bothered to watch these two until now. They were both bold attempts to reimagine a dead franchise in a new way whilst still hitting enough beats from the originals to keep old fans… interested(?) Nothing seems to really work though. For all the good, there’s twice as much bad. Some great acting, some great waste of acting, some great ideas, some great waste of ideas - you get the idea.
The overall impression these films left me with is perfectly summed-up by seeing cute little moppet Danielle Harris from the earlier movies all grown up and having sex - a skanky, grimy uncomfortable experience that really just feels wrong.
Oh, and they pulled the old “it was all a dream!” trick on me again - that those scenes were one of the better parts of either movie was bad enough, that the dream itself was twenty-ish minutes long was unforgivable.
Each film earns itself 1 mark out of 5.