Halloween (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Rob Zombie |
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| Screenplay by | Rob Zombie |
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Halloween by John Carpenter and Debra Hill |
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Tyler Bates John Carpenter (themes) |
| Cinematography | Phil Parmet |
| Edited by | Glenn Garland |
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $80.2 million |
Halloween is a 2007 American slasher film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. The film is a remake/reimagining of the 1978 horror film of the same name; the first in the rebooted Halloween film series and the ninth installment of the Halloween franchise. The film stars Tyler Mane as the adult Michael Myers, Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Sam Loomis, and Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode; Daeg Faerch portrays a ten-year-old Michael Myers. Rob Zombie's "reimagining" follows the premise of John Carpenter's original, with Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode and her friends on Halloween night. Zombie's film goes deeper into the character's psyche, trying to answer the question of what drove him to kill people, whereas in Carpenter's original film Michael did not have an explicit reason for killing.
Working from Carpenter's advice to "make [the film] his own", Zombie chose to develop the film as both a prequel and a remake, allowing for more original content than simply re-filming the same scenes. Despite mostly negative reviews, the film, which cost $15 million to make, went on to gross $80,208,039 worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film in the Halloween franchise in unadjusted U.S. dollars. Zombie followed the film with a sequel, Halloween II, in 2009.
On Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, having already shown signs of psychopathic tendencies, ten-year-old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) murders a school bully (Daryl Sabara). Later that evening, he murders his older sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), his mother's boyfriend Ronnie (William Forsythe), and Judith's boyfriend Steve (Adam Weisman). Only his baby sister, Angel Myers, is spared. After one of the longest trials in the state's history, Michael is found guilty of first-degree murder and sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of child psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), who he initially cooperates with. Over the following year, Michael becomes fixated on his papier-mâché masks, closing himself off from everyone, even his mother Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), who visits him regularly. When Michael kills a nurse as Deborah is leaving from one of her visits, she can no longer handle the situation and commits suicide.
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