Halloween

Aroview: Rocker-turned-horrormeister Rob Zombie's resurrection of the 1978 slasher classic, which tells the tale of an escaped mental patient on a terrifying rampage in his home town.

Expanding John Carpenter’s seminal film into a history of violence – that is, by elaborating on Michael Myer’s tortured childhood – dir. Zombie realigns the focus of the franchise to its undying hockey-masked murderer. As such, the inevitable bloodletting is tempered by moments of odd, searching earnestness, making this a somewhat unique, if still flagrantly referential, addition to the horror remake subgenre.

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