Halloween (2007)

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Movie
German title Halloween
Original title Halloween
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 105 (uncut theatrical version)
116 (Director's Cut)
110 (Blu-ray) minutes
Age rating FSK no youth
approval SPIO / JK (Director's Cut Indexed)
Rod
Director Rob zombie
script Rob Zombie
(based on the original script by
John Carpenter & Debra Hill )
production Malek Akkad
Andy Gould
Rob Zombie
music Tyler Bates
camera Phil Parmet
cut Glenn Garland
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Halloween: Resurrection

Successor  →
Halloween II

Halloween is an American horror film directed by Rob Zombie in 2007. The film is a remake of John Carpenter 's 1978 film of the same name . Alternative titles are Rob Zombie's Halloween or Halloween 2007 .

action

The film opens in the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween on October 31st. Deborah Myers is called to the school of her ten-year-old son Michael after the son has become suspicious of behavior due to an insult by the director. But the school management is even more concerned about a number of Polaroids that were discovered in Michael's pocket: they depict killed animals. Child psychologist Dr. Samuel J. Loomis was called in, who recognized Michael as the first warning signs of a psychopath and asked Michael's mother to be allowed to examine the boy further.

In the meantime, Michael breaks open his locker and takes out his Halloween mask. Then he ambushes the classmate who threatened him in the morning. In the park, he beats him up with a wooden club until he succumbs to his injuries. When Michael comes home in the evening, he first ties up Ronnie White, his mother's friend, who fell asleep in front of the television, with tape and then cuts his throat. He then kills Steve, his older sister Judith's friend, who is eating in the kitchen, with a baseball bat. Michael puts on the white mask Steve brought with him and stabs his sister, who is waiting for Steve in her room. When Deborah Myers comes home, she finds her blood-splattered son with the little sister in her arms in front of the house.

Michael is convicted of murder and admitted to the Smith's Grove Sanitarium high security psychiatry, where he is under the supervision of Dr. Loomis is standing. In the first eleven months, Michael Dr. To Loomis for not remembering killing someone. His mother visits him regularly and Michael shows her various Halloween masks that he constructs in his cell from paper and paste.

One night, Ismael Cruz, a former prisoner he became friends with and who cleans the sanatorium, advises him to come to terms with the situation and to isolate himself from everything. From that moment on, Michael no longer speaks. A little later, after visiting his mother, he kills a nurse who is supposed to look after him with a fork while Loomis tries to take his mother to the car. Deborah Myers cannot cope with this incident and ends up killing herself at home.

From now on Michael made more masks and followed the advice of the ex-convict not to say another word. After fifteen years, Loomis finally considers it no longer treatable. Eventually Loomis retires and writes a book about his time with Michael Myers. Michael is now to be transferred from the sanatorium to a prison. Michael, now 27 years old and over 2 meters tall, takes this opportunity, breaks his handcuffs and from now on murders everyone who stands in his way on the way to freedom and back to Haddonfield: first the guards in the sanatorium, then the one ex-con Ismael Cruz and finally at a truck stop to truck drivers Big Joe Grizzley whose clothes he wears from now on.

Michael returns to the place of his childhood and gets the kitchen knife, with which he killed his sister, and Steve's Halloween mask in his mother's house, which is now empty. He had hidden both under the floorboards.

It's Halloween again in Haddonfield, and from now on Laurie Strode and her high school friends Annie Brackett and Lynda van der Klok take center stage. In the school library, Laurie notices that someone she does not know is watching her. It's Michael Myers.

On Halloween night, Laurie is supposed to take care of little Tommy in the Doyle family home. Meanwhile, Lynda meets her boyfriend Bob at Michael Myer's childhood home. After sex, Bob is supposed to get beer out of the car. On the way back he is murdered by Michael. Michael puts on a white linen cloth to make Lynda believe he is her friend Bob. He approaches the naked Lynda and strangles her. Michael then goes to the Strodes' house and kills Laurie's adoptive parents there.

Dr. Loomis has now been informed of Michael's escape and drives immediately to Haddonfield. On the way there, he buys a .357 Magnum . When he arrives in Haddonfield, he warns Sheriff Brackett, Annie's father, that Michael has returned to Haddonfield and that people are in danger. As the Sheriff and Loomis drive to the Strodes 'house, Brackett explains that Laurie Strode is none other than Michael Myers' little sister. After the suicide of Michael's mother, Brackett was the first police officer on the scene. He found the baby there and secretly took it to a nearby hospital so that the child would not have to grow up with the stigma of kinship to be a murderer.

Meanwhile, Laurie receives a call from Annie, who is babysitting little Lindsey Wallace in the house across the street. Annie can convince Laurie to take care of Lindsey as well, so that Annie can meet her boyfriend Paul in the meantime. While Annie and Paul have sex at the Wallace's house, Michael Myers shows up and murders Paul; He knocks Annie out. When Laurie gets impatient and wants to hand Lindsey back to Annie, she finds Annie covered in blood on the floor and immediately calls the emergency number. But Michael is still in the house and attacks Laurie, who escapes back to the children in the Doyles' house. Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis learn of the 911 call and make their way to the Wallaces while Michael breaks into the Doyles' house.

Finally, Michael kidnaps Laurie and takes her to his parents' house. There Michael takes off his mask and tries to show her with an old photo that she is his sister. But Laurie in her panic does not understand what Michael wants to tell her, takes his knife and stabs him before she escapes from the house. Michael chases her through the house until she ends up in the empty swimming pool and has no more escape route. But now Dr. Loomis and repeatedly shoots Michael until he lies lifeless.

When Laurie and Loomis sit in the car and want to drive off, Michael is back, pulls Laurie through the side window and drags her back into the house. Loomis pursues him, tries to speak to Michael, who then crushes his eyes. Laurie takes the Doctor's Magnum and flees upstairs, followed by Michael. Her escape ends on the balcony, where Michael attacks her and falls over the parapet with her.

When Laurie regains her senses, she sits on the bleeding Michael. She points the revolver at his face and pulls the trigger several times, but the drum is almost empty and no shot goes off. When Michael suddenly grabs her arm, she pulls the trigger again, and this time there's a cartridge in the drum.

occupation

Haddonfield, 17 years ago :

Smith's Grove Sanitarium :

Haddonfield, today :

  • Sid Haig : Chester Chesterfield, cemetery keeper

Further guest appearances :

Reviews

Dennis Harvey was not very enthusiastic about Variety , especially when compared to Carpenter's original: “While the youngsters had real personalities to show in 1978, they are hardly distinguishable here: Taylor-Compton is good at screaming; Glue is the usual blonde slut; Harris is, uh, the one with the dark hair. "
Harvey's verdict:" What screenwriter and director Zombie brings to the revamped story is a penchant for unprovoked, blatant " Jerry Springer Uncensored!" Dialogues (even after the White- Trash prologue, all characters talk like drunken sailors), a lot of energy, but few real scary moments, and a lack of interest in characters and credibility. "

The lexicon of the international film judges: "Remake of the horror film classic" Halloween - The Night of Horror "by John Carpenter (1978), which convinces in the first half with a creative further development of the original plot elements. After that, however, the film all too soon drifts into the waters of senseless slaughter. "

background

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Malek Akkad at the panel to the new edition of Halloween in July 2018 at the Comic-Con in San Diego
  • The film was released in American cinemas on August 31, 2007 and was shown in German cinemas from October 25, 2007. It was released uncut with a "not youth-free" rating from the FSK. The Director's Cut with SPIO / JK seal was indexed on September 30, 2008 .
  • Shooting began on January 29, 2007 and ended on March 22, 2007. The 38 days of shooting were exclusively on location , there are no studio recordings. The film was shot first in Los Angeles , then from February 6th in South Pasadena, where John Carpenter's original was shot. The last 10 days of shooting then took place at various other locations in Southern California.
  • Producer Malek Akkad's father Moustapha Akkad was the producer of the original Halloween from 1978 and all other films in the Halloween series . Malek Akkad was on set for Halloween 4 back in 1988 and considers the sequel to be something of a family legacy.
  • For Annie actress Danielle Harris, getting involved in the film means her return to the Halloween franchise. As a young girl, aged 11 and 12, she starred in parts 4 and 5 as Michael Myers' niece Jamie Lloyd.
  • In the first five weeks, the film grossed $ 56.2 million in the US and $ 80.3 million worldwide, making it the most commercially successful film in the Halloween series. Halloween H20 , the second most successful, grossed $ 55.0 million in the US.
  • On August 28, 2009, the second part of the newly filmed Halloween series came to US cinemas. The German launch was originally announced for December 7, 2009. Halloween II (2009) did not go on sale until March 2nd, 2010 on DVD. The film was already available for rent on February 5, 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Halloween . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 573 K).
  2. ^ "Where the 1978 juveniles had real personality, here they're barely distinguishable from each other: Taylor-Compton sure can scream; Klebe is the regulatory blonde slut; Harris is, he, the one with dark hair. ”See here at variety.com
  3. ^ "[…] What scenarist-helmer Zombie brings to the revamped tale is a penchant for pointlessly crass" Jerry Springer Uncensored! "- type dialogue (even after the lowlife prologue, most characters talk like drunken sailors), high energy but few real scares, and a disinterest in character and credibility. "Ibid.
  4. ↑ Halloween. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Release Info , cf. imdb.com
  6. ↑ Filming & Production , cf. imdb.com
  7. ↑ Domestic Total as of Sep. 30, 2007: $ 56,201,164 , cf. boxofficemojo.com