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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1   F "John Carpenter can rest easy; any self-respecting horror fan will forget this film even exists by the time the real Halloween rolls around this year."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4.5/5 "Halloween is brilliant. It's a stroke of slice and dice genius."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "Some may think it isn't fair to compare Zombie's film to the original. Too bad. It's called "Halloween" and I'm pretty sure it's a remake of a movie called "Halloween"."   Beyond Hollywood   Brian Holcomb B+ "A scrappy, semi-brilliant reawakening of a fabulous horror icon, and the best part about it? No Busta Rhymes."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf .5/4 "...those druids are looking pretty darn good right about now..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Zombie's vision is a misguided effort to be all splatter."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 1.5/4 "This so-called reinvention doesn't cut it by a long shot. It is a foul-mouthed, soulless, low-rent slasher flick that mistakes graphic violence for genuine thrills and sex scenes for character development."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D- "Zombie is a one-trick pony. I don't like the trick or the pony."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "This is probably the worst remake since "Black Christmas"..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 2/4 "...blood-spilling banality...the sensationalism behind Zombie's directorial demeanor is merely a follow-the-dots frightfest with an exaggerated twitching disorder."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng F "Just the latest misguided attempt to recycle an old horror classic, replacing suspense and a sense of mystery with splatter movie cliche and heavy-handed backstory."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek C- "By the time Zombie gets to the Laurie Strode section of the film...he has stripped Myers of his mystique and therefore, I presume unintentionally, of his menace without leaving adequate space for something like commiseration in its absence."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2/4 "Although it's not saying much, this is director Rob Zombie's most impressive outing behind the camera."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "In yet another needless retread of a classic '70s American horror movie, Rob Zombie's prequel-cum-remake of John Carpenter's Halloween does its best to distort everything that worked in the original in its bid for “improvement.”"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3.5/5 "An kai hameno den tha ebgaine apo ligo psalidisma se arketes basikes skines, to pantrema ton palion kommation toy mythoy me ta kainoyria toy backstory, ektos toy oti dinei taytotita (esto kai shizoeidi) stin tainia, tin kanei na ksehorizei ap' ta gnosta r"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.5/4.0 "... Rob Zombie's Halloween shines as a tribute to the slasher genre instead of proof of its passing."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 0.5/5 "Zombie and company give us the proverbial razor blade in the apple with another crappy horror remake."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "...a sometimes thoughtful reimagining...also plodding and brutal rather than horrific. The leaner, creepier original remains the classic."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 0/4 "So bad it aspires to the height of utter pointlessness that was Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 3/4 "I won't make the case that Halloween is anything other than a well-crafted slasher film. That's all it wants to be, and that's what it achieves. But I will say that the movie does the horror genre a big favor by reclaiming a legendary character."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 2.5/4 "Rob Zombie's gut understanding of what makes '70s horror so great is unfortunately glimpsed in only short, sporadic bursts in Halloween."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "It was probably asking too much to hope that Zombie would come up with a film that would live up to the high standards of the original, but what he has given us is so completely worthless that it pales in comparison to "Halloween: Resurrection""   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "When will people like Zombie learn that you shouldn't shine a light on the boogeyman?"   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "Halloween 2007 externalizes all that was internal in the original."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick D+ "The original is better. You know it. I know it. Rob Zombie knows it. Can we leave it at that and get on with our lives?"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 1/5 "Pick the lamest Halloween sequel out there and you've just found a better movie than this one. At this point I'd rather see three new Uwe Boll flicks than anything Rob Zombie has to offer."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 3/10 "Ron Zombie's "re-imagining" of John Carpenter's slasher classic has made mincemeat of far better films at the box-office, so it's impossible to ignore."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 6/10 "If it wasn't a remake of Halloween, Halloween might have been pretty awesome."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2.5/4 "If Rob Zombie ever decides to direct a horror movie, watch out."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1