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  • Genre: Horror
  • Release Date: 08/31/2007
  • Running Time: 109 mins
  • Director: Rob Zombie
  • Cast: Daeg Faerch, Danielle Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Danny Trejo, Sheri Moon, Dee Wallace-Stone, Scout Taylor-Compton, William Forsythe, Tyler Mane, Hanna Hall
  • Producer: Malek Akkad, Andy Gould, Rob Zombie
  • Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Rob Zombie
  • Distributor: MGM
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Box Office

  1. 2012, 65.2 mil, 65.2 mil
  2. Disney's A Christmas Carol, 22.3 mil, 63.3 mil
  3. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, 5.9 mil, 8.7 mil
  4. Men Who Stare at Goats, 5.9 mil, 23.0 mil
  5. Michael Jackson's This Is It, 5.1 mil, 67.2 mil
  6. The Fourth Kind, 4.6 mil, 20.4 mil
  7. Couples Retreat, 4.2 mil, 102.0 mil
  8. Paranormal Activity, 4.0 mil, 103.7 mil
  9. Law Abiding Citizen, 3.8 mil, 67.2 mil
  10. The Box, 3.2 mil, 13.2 mil
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Halloween

Rob Zombie's Halloween isn't quite a remake of John Carpenter's 1978 slasher masterpiece. The first hour, which vividly and viciously imagines the dirt-bag childhood of an abject little psychopath named Michael Myers (the exquisitely wormy Daeg Faerch), might be considered a prequel. Yet even when it kicks in on familiar turf—Michael's escape (slash) from the loony bin (strangle) and hunt (slaughter) for his sister, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) — Zombie is up to something all his own. Horrific as it is, Halloween isn't so much a horror film as a biopic, and a superb one at that. The life and times of a fictional monster may not be as respectable a subject as a historical monster like, say, Idi Amin or Truman Capote, but Zombie's portrait is every bit as reverent, scrupulous and deeply felt as any Oscar-grubbing horror show. Note the strange circumspection, the discipline of tone, the utter lack of snark, the absolute denial of gore-for-gore's sake. (Yes, Eli Roth, there is such a thing as "torture porn" — and you're a dumb, dirty perv.) Can you feel the love? If anything, Zombie indulges too much sympathy for the devil; his Halloween deepens Carpenter's vision without rooting out its fear. — Nathan Lee


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