This movie premiered Labor Day weekend and grossed the highest amount for Labor Day weekend in history pulling in $31 million over the four day weekend. The movie surpassed The Sixth Sense by a little over $2 million...even though that movie had been released five week previously. A lot of you may think that it is simply a remake of the original but you would be wrong. Here is a brief synopsis before I tell you how I viewed the movie.
On Halloween 1963 in the town of Haddenfield, 6-year-old Michael Myers (Daeg Farch), estranged and mentally unstable, is imprisoned in Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) for the murders of his mother's (Sheri Moon) boyfriend, his older sister, and her boyfriend. Now, 15 years later, he escapes from the Sanitarium and begins searching for his baby sister Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton). Dr. Loomis must warn the residents of Haddenfield and get to Laurie before Michael does...will he make it in time?
The movie begins by focusing on young Michael Myers who, as mentioned above, is played wonderfully by Daeg Farch. You get to see the mind of Rob Zombie (which I have not been a huge fan of in the past) transcribe the atypical childhood of a murderer. You see the horrible family life, the acting out on other kids and animals weaker than you, the bullying that takes place (to him, not by him), and the followed mental instability that leads to the inevitable breakdown of the child resulting in a bloodbath of devastating proportion. Zombie handles this part of the story very well and leads you down a dark pathway where, unfortunately for viewers, does not involve any dialogue from the psychopath as Michael Myers does not speak soon after he enters the Sanitarium. As he grows older, however, his actions do most of his speaking.
You see Myers grow deeper and deeper into insanity and with Zombie at the helm that is a very bloody, violent insanity indeed. Slicing, dicing, and choking his way through the typical teens involved in the movie we get to the most important part of the story and, for me, what I felt can best describe a psychopath who can feel love and compassion. I'm not saying that pyschopaths like Myers are misunderstood but when you see his life in front of your eyes and the subsequent decisions following that life, you gain a very significant understanding of Myers.
The movie is worthy of seeing once, maybe twice if you love gorey movies, because you will get a broad observation of how a pyschopath is born and bred in society and at home. The movie is not without it's funny moments (as any horror film has) but these moments take a back seat to pure ravenous murder. The movie receives 3 out of 4 stars from me for the storytelling of his life and showing a different side of Michael Myers in parts of the movie which you may never have thought existed.
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