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Posted by: Jeff on June 14, 2009 at 23:24:37

Those spots were really good. Definatly got me
even more interested in seeing Halloween II. Michael's one crazy mofo.

Posted by: djblack1313 on June 14, 2009 at 23:55:38

yeah, the more footage i see the more i KNOW this is going to kick ass! VERY atmospheric (which is AWESOME!).
the car lift/flip and HARLEY being attacked through the window are my favorite scenes (AFTER Danielle's ANNIE being attacked in the bathroom of course! that's THE EFFING best! and scary too!).

Posted by: GW on June 15, 2009 at 00:35:12

Gonna be a long summer waiting for this flick. Looks very intense.

Posted by: danny glover on June 15, 2009 at 00:38:38

was he lifting a car? wtf

Posted by: NamesAsh,Housewears123 on June 15, 2009 at 01:17:23

So does anyone else think he's gonna give us some bull**** ending like halloween 4(but halloween 4 was awesome because it was original but this is just a rip-off) and offically kill michael again and have laurie dawn the mask and kill, that would be another slap in the face to the fans of the series like blowing his head off in the first one, i seriously can't wait how they explain how he's alive after that, they can't get away with him being the bogeyman because he made clear that he was human in the "ROB ZOMBIE VISION", why is he considerd to be this revolutionary horror geru there is way better people out there, check out some Italian and french cinema that is some serious twisted **** there

Posted by: Dutch on June 15, 2009 at 01:38:16

What is a geru? Halloween 4 was awesome? In what sense is this a rip-off? A rip-off of what? What compelled you to post this gibberish?

Posted by: Gusto on June 15, 2009 at 02:05:22

Stop hating already if you dont wanna see it stay home with your foreign ****e or save your money and go buy Season of the witch that's more your speed. This movie and Public Enemies are the suck proof movies of the year.

Posted by: Vladimir Suckmeoff on June 15, 2009 at 02:09:07

@ Dutch

Agreed.

Posted by: Calum on June 15, 2009 at 04:25:15

At first I didn't know what to think of this ghostly angelic version of Deborah Myers but the more I hear her dialogue the more and more I love the idea that he's a fully grown man but mentally he's still that kid who killed on Halloween night.

Zombie's a ****ing god.

Posted by: giveitupzombie on June 15, 2009 at 05:16:36

Rob zombie just doesnt understand what it means to be a normal human being.He somehow feels that making everything white trash and dirty makes it scary. He also seems to be compelled to make his storys about inhuman monsters, which misses the point of John carpenders origional. That movie was about a girl we were actually concerned about, which was part of what made it scary. Without the human element it will just be another pointless gorefest. Plus it's totally a rip-off of friday the 13th, being that micheal is motivated by his dead mother and all.

Posted by: cinemascribe on June 15, 2009 at 06:08:57

I want to be excited for this film. But so far, I'm not feeling it at all. This pair of tv spots only served to heighten my sense that the same mysterious, foreboding qualities which earned Carpenter's classic it's place as my all time favorite horror film are being jettisoned in favor of hyperkinetic action and brutality.

I actually didn't hate Zombies "Halloween". I'm not a devoted fan of the film, but I do acknowledge its' strengths, which (in my opinion) are confined primarily to the first half. I thought Zombie was at his best when he created young Michael's back story.

The problem was, when the film ventured into legitimate remake territory, the atmosphere which Carpenter had created with the unknown element of Myers in the 78 film was stripped away because we now knew too much about the character. One of the elements of the '78 "Halloween" which made it so scary was that through the entire film you're wondering "Why the hell is this lunatic so determined to kill this particular woman?" Even the original "Halloween II" (which is a sorely under appreciated sequel in my eyes) bothered to save the reveal about Myers' relation to Laurie until the second half..and even then, they avoided any "sweet" moments. The guy wanted her ****ing dead. Period. The end.

In Zombie's reimagining, we get shots of young Michael mooning over "Boo" and sort of dipping into between love and psychotic hate in the later scenes. That didn't register very well with me. Change the photography, alter the mask to a degree, hell.. set it in a different town if you want..but leave Michael the way he was because his character WORKED.

Now we have Zombie's "Halloween II" and this looks to be an even further departure,with a completely ill-fitting "ghost mother" sub-plot thrown in. Save the Oedipal complex for Norman Bates and Jason Voorhees. This character is infamous for his burning desire to butcher his blood relatives without remorse, not hang onto their memories. The inclusion of Sheri Moon Zombie in spectral form is alienating me even further.

I hope anyone reading this gets that I'm being objective here. I'm not mindlessly issuing hate towards Zombie (as it happens, I'm a fan of "The Devils' Rejects") nor am I dismissing this sequel out of hand. I'm saying that -as a fan since '78 (the original was the first R rated film I ever snuck into) and based on what's been presented to us thus far - I am not impressed. Honestly, this is seeming less and less like "Halloween".

Posted by: heat on June 15, 2009 at 10:04:52

Yeah, Myers was a totaly normal guy in Carpenter's version. That's why he got pumped full of lead, fell off a balcony, got shot in the eyeballs and engulfed on fire and still lived. Being the normal guy myself, I must be a big ***** thinking I wouldn't be able to withstand all that.

Posted by: ryanc on June 15, 2009 at 11:17:56

Ummm heat: That was the whole point the original Myers wasn't human. He was supernatural and he was "The Shape" and that's a lot scarier than what Rob Zombie did. WE didn't need to see him as a child. Although I liked the Smith's Grove scenes (excluding the terrible rape scene) but the could have been left out. Bottom line is, RZ contradicts himself. He spent all of the first movie making him a real human then switches and Michael gets blown in the head and is still alive.

Another way this "filmmaker" contradicts himself is with Deborah wanting Michael to kill. People can say that is just Michael's way of thinking and that she doesn't really want him to kill but I think it's just Rob finding work for Sheri. I'm sure she would be great in a moivie that wasn't by Rob Zombie but she has to be in every movie so now I don't want to see here again. And you know if Sheri didn't play Deborah then she wouldn't be in this one.


Bottom line, I'll see this movie. You can't say it sucks from a couple of clips but you can't say it's genius or great either.

Posted by: Derek on June 15, 2009 at 13:17:45

It seems all the Bruce Campbell fans have it in for movies like this. And I should say especially any type of Halloween remake. What compels them to rip on brilliant works of art? I mean seriously. And then people complaining about this brutes shear strength of slowly being able to lift a car that is already half way over a hill. Do you haters not remember half the retarted stuff Mikey could survive and do in the original movies? For god sakes.

Posted by: Mike on June 15, 2009 at 13:18:11

@ryanc

Here is what I am thinking. There have been people that have been known to have lived through a gunshot to the head, so it is plausible that is the case here. Because you never see his head explode or anything like that, although you do see quite a bit of blood. So I am thinking that when she shot him, she just merely grazed him, but enough to where blood would have sprayed. I understand that if he were shot in the head and lived through it, there would have been a LONG recovery time involved. Therefore, I believe that the whole hospital scene is a nightmare that she is having. I thought that I read somewhere that this is supposed to take place 2 years after the original event? I know that it picks up right where the last one left off, but who's to say that she doesn't have the nightmare of him coming after her in the hospital and then suddenly wakes up from her nightmare, and it then says 2 years later in text. Then all hell breaks loose and sets things in motion. One of the reasons I am thinking this way is the fact that he seems to grow a full beard overnight, when he didn't have one at the end of the last movie.So I'm thinking after a couple of years without shaving, then yeah I could see him having a fully grown beard. I may be completely wrong with all this, but if you actually think about it, it's very plausible.

Posted by: Derek on June 15, 2009 at 13:20:55

And the whole remake aspect of this film, fricken drop it already. This is Zombie's film, not Carpenters. He didn't even want to make a sequel do to the fact he hated having to remake a legend's film. But he came back to do this because it's his own story now, his mythology, not Carpenters. Drop it.

Posted by: Derek on June 15, 2009 at 13:22:31

Well said Mike. However I have a feeling he's shot through the cheek, due to the massive gaping hole there in this new mask.

Posted by: king dong on June 15, 2009 at 17:51:09

Lets put it to a vote.

yay if you whant Michal to be normal.

nay if you don't

I vote nay.

Posted by: Robgoblin on June 15, 2009 at 20:09:56

I'm a Zombie fan, but this just looks plain awful.

I could be wrong but...

Posted by: davo on June 15, 2009 at 22:05:46

rob zombie brought halloween back, he went back to the scenes that they wouldnt make anymore , with the young sex scenes and nudity and actually geting some desent actors.it just seems like the horro films today almost try to make the films into a comedy. i loved rob z halloween one, he has a sick mind which will make a great movie. wish he would do the same for freddy and jason

Posted by: salvador on July 1, 2009 at 20:00:02

this movie is going too be bad ass, cant wait too see it zob zombie rolls and is freaking cool.........