However, during the transfer, Michael breaks free of his chains and escapes, murdering the security detail while doing so. Dr Sam Loomis (Idris Elba), the child psychologist who took Michael's case, visits Michael and apologizes for failing to help him over the past fifteen years.
He is finally due to stand trial for his brutal crimes and is being transferred from Smith's Grove. Michael's parents (Steve Buscemi and Julie Benz) then arrive home to find a bloodied Michael sitting on the front porch cradling his baby sister Angel.įifteen years later, Michael (Tom Hardy) has been locked away in Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Michael enters and caves Steve's head in with a baseball bat from behind. He comes in through the open back door and sits down to eat the Halloween candy from the bowl on the table. Steve realizes that he forgot his house keys while looking for a cigarette and returns to the Myers house to get them. She tries to cover herself up and yells at Michael, who then reveals the knife in his hand and he viciously stabs her to death. She looks up and catches the figure in the reflection she is horrified to recognize them as Michael, wearing his Halloween mask.
Steve leaves, and the intruder goes upstairs, where a naked Judith is sitting in front of her vanity mirror. Unknown to them, an unseen person comes in through the back door and takes a large knife from the kitchen. Judith's boyfriend Steve Haley (Jai Courtney) arrives and they go upstairs to have sex.
Her younger brother Michael (Ty Simpkins) has just gone out trick or treating.
Zombie's Halloween has a ton of flaws, but at least his failures are interesting.Judith Myers (Bryce Dallas Howard) is at home alone on Halloween Night. Green brought back the problems of the old franchise just as faithfully as he did its successes. Where Zombie's films succeed, it's because he was willing to take them in a radical new direction.
Where Green's films succeed, it's because he found a way to resurrect and update the successes of Carpenter's original opus. It also demonstrates the weaknesses of the new trilogy and the strength of Zombie's efforts. It's a radical decline in quality after the high point of the first film, and it hurts the future of the trilogy.
The film states its themes out loud multiple times, all the boredom of Myers as a killer returns in full force, and most of the action has the feel of slapstick comedy. The film completely abandons the clever simplicity of its predecessor, in favor of a dull mess surrounding the town devolving into an angry mob. Halloween Kills took the idea of actors returning to their roles to its logical extent by bringing back countless minor characters to diminishing returns. His second take on the franchise came much more into its own. Fans of Zombie's work knew what they were in for, but those who were just in it for Micheal Myers were put off by his trademark hateful characters and mountains of gore. Reception to the remake was not kind, critics tore it apart, but part of the negativity came from an obvious clash. The film doesn't really work, largely because the remake elements are pointless. Zombie sought to delve deeper into the psychology of the killer, granting the slightly overplayed character new angles to reignite fear. The first Rob Zombie Halloween film is a bizarre combination of prequel and remake. He reportedly received a single piece of advice from John Carpenter, who insisted Zombie "make it his own", and he had little trouble with that edict. Zombie is a lifelong horror fan who was thrilled to take over. Off the monstrous success of his films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, rock legend Rob Zombie was brought on to reboot Halloween in 2007. Akkad's son Malek took over with strange new ideas.
Longtime series producer and underappreciated Hollywood fixture Moustapha Al Akkad died suddenly in 2005, in the horrific Amman bombings. A sudden change of direction was heralded with a massive tragedy. A sequel centering on Laurie Strode's son, a prequel about Micheal's early years, a kitschy follow-up about Myers escaping death row were all pitched and soundly rejected. Jason, the studio even pitched a crossover with Clive Barker's Hellraiser franchise, but it never worked out.