H2 Trailer

This is gonna shock and amaze people who know how I felt about Rob Zombie's "reimagining" of Halloween, but having watched the teaser trailer, I'm kinda interested in seeing where he's going with this. I'm mostly wondering how so many people whom I'm pretty sure DIED in the original (or at least the version that I saw) are going to return again. I guess we knew Annie didn't die which was just dumb, but was I just dreaming that he crushed Dr. Loomis head? And Laurie shot Michael in the face, right? Remember how in Scream, Sydney shoots the killer again to make sure there would be no surprises? I kinda like the idea of someone actually just killing the damn killer and letting it all go. Granted, Scream decided to traipse out all new killers later to continue the franchise, but I am sick and tired of killers being revived in movies. While I liked the remake of My Bloody Valentine, I'm not at all disappointed that there won't be a sequel. Sure, the remake left us with a big old question about what would happen to the killer now, but so did the original. I said before (maybe only in one of my ICFTB emails and not in this blog), I think part of the nostalgic appeal of the original MBV is that we didn't have a bunch of lame sequels later that turned Harry Warden into yet another Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.

So it would have been great if Rob had just left his ending as it was. Then again, apparently, the DVD has a totally different ending than the theatrical release. I couldn't make it through the DVD as you may recall because I thought that movie was diarrhea. Anyway, clearly, Rob isn't going completely away from the John Carpenter's film's sequel because a portion of it doesn't take place in a hospital but it appears to involve ten million other things. In fact, for a "teaser" trailer, it sure shows a heck of a lot. Unfortunately, one of the things it shows is a ghostly Sheri Moon Zombie, I assume reprising her role as Michael's mom. I don't want to be one of those people who jumps the gun and claims this is a Mrs. Voorhees rip, but that footage sure reeks of F13 a bit.

I don't know. Maybe I'm softening in my old age. Maybe I'm less angry about this than I was about the first "reimagining" because it's clear this is a sequel to his assy remake and not an attempt to remake the original film's sequel. If I could just go in and pretend this movie isn't using character names like Michael Myers and Laurie Strode and Dr. Loomis, I might be able to muddle through. Then again, if Rob wasn't trying to get people into theatres by co-opting the name Halloween, I would go to see his movie anyway because I tend to think his movies suck.