I have tried to think of something positive to say about this movie, and I cannot think of a single thing. I enjoyed the over-the-top riff on the slasher genre with Zombie's "House Of A 1,000 Corpses", and I appreciate his efforts to "update" classic horror productions, but this was such an incredible misstep that it defies description. Usually a remake pays some degree of homage to the original, or - at the very least - utilizes the same basic storyline. If you didn't know the title of this movie and didn't recognize character names, you would never connect it to the Carpenter original. About the only way anyone could find any viewing pleasure in this movie would be under the influence of powerful conscious-altering medications. Better yet, just go read a book; any book. Even a AAA Trip-Tik from Newark to Poughkeepsie would be preferable.
Review of Halloween II
