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Halloween (2007), a review by snowcat

Halloween - 2007
Director - Rob Zombie
Running Time - 109 minutes
Stars - Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane

Halloween, the perfect name for a horror film why? because Halloween is when a lot of people watch horror. The original Halloween is a great film, it holds up well against a lot in the slasher genre. Rob Zombies Halloween is what I prefer to call a re imagining, a film that takes a story but plays it in a different way.

Halloween starts off with a young Michael Myers who after a run in with his Sister, his mothers boyfriend and some bullies at school. The schools principle takes Michael to his office where he calls his mother. The principal horrifies Michaels mother with some graphic photos and tells her he has psychopathic tendencies. An angry Michael goes on to kill the bully, his mothers boyfriend, his sister and sisters boyfriend. After this horrific event Michael is sent to a sanatorium  where his only visitors are his mother and Doctor.

Although some scenes seem fairly violent, I think they were in context, I've watched horror films and felt the gore was out of place but this film had a good ratio of gore to story.

I really enjoyed this re imaging of Halloween, I felt Michael Myers needed more of an explanation on why he was so "messed up". By going back further then the original to the home and School life of the character it made you empathise with him. it felt as though Myers was human, psychotic yes, but he had also been picked on and anyone who experienced that knows how horrible it makes you feel. I felt sympathy for Myers all the way through this film, I did not feel this way during the original, needless to say the original is still a brilliant film. This version of the film is definitely worthy of a watch, nothing like some of the terrible horror remakes out there.

(From Emma's Film Reviews (snowcat) on October 24th, 2009)

Movie 43, a review by addicted2dvd

Movie 43 (2013/United States) Trailer |IMDb |Wikipedia | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Director: The PitchPeter Farrelly, The CatchPeter Farrelly, HomeschooledWill Graham, The PropositionSteve Carr, VeronicaGriffin Dunne, iBabeSteven Brill, Super Hero Speed DatingJames Duffy, Machine KidsJonathan Van Tulleken, Middleschool DateElizabeth Banks, TampaxPatrik Forsberg, Happy BirthdayBrett Ratner, Truth or DarePeter Farrelly, Victory's GloryRusty Cundieff, BeezelJames Gunn (1970) Writing: Length: 94 min. Rating: Rated R : Strong Pervasive Crude And Sexual Content Including Dialogue , Graphic Nudity, Language And Some Violence Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
The PitchDennis Quaid as Charlie Wessler
Greg Kinnear as Griffin Schraeder
Common as Bob Mone
Charlie Saxton as Jay
Will Sasso as Jerry

Plot:
YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE MOVIE 43....
.. the year's most outrageous and daringly original comedy, featuring the ultimate star-studded cast. No inappropriate storyline is off limits..including a "ballsy" blind date, a middle school "period" piece and more. Please don't sue us if you die laughing

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Closed Captioned

This is yet another one I got from the library. What can I say... I really been on a library kick lately. I grabbed this one because (as you can see from the front cover alone) it has a lot of big names in it. After watching it I have to say I really wasn't impressed much at all. It had a moment here and there... but over-all it really wasn't worth the time I put in to watch it. I did like one or two of the segments... but that is about it.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on November 15th, 2013)

"Due South" marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

The Man Who Knew Too Little
This one is basically just an average episode. I have seen several better but then again I have seen a few that were worse. The guy they were transporting back to Canada looked familiar to me... but after looking him up he wasn't anyone I am familiar with. Just had one of those faces I guess.

My Rating:


(From "Due South" marathon on July 15th, 2009)