I don't know about you guys, but I'm a big fan of writer-director Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN movies. Well, maybe not so much the first film. But I think the sequel is a great f*cking Rob Zombie movie. And it looks like I'm not alone as today we have word none other than Quentin Tarantino himself loves Zombie's HALLOWEEN and HALLOWEEN II.
Specifically, Tarantino reveals:
I am a big fan of the Rob Zombie Halloweens. When I saw the first one, I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the aesthetic. I didn’t like everything that he added to it and then the last hour just becomes this fast forward remake of the first one. What the fuck is all this shit? Eight months later, I watched it on video … and I really liked them once I got all the preconceptions out of my head. That kid [Daeg Faerch] is really good. I mean, what did I think Rob Zombie was going to do with it? Do I want him to do something else? I like his Sam Peckinpah aesthetic. So, now that I didn’t have a bug up my ass about it, I was actually able to appreciate it. And again, it’s that kid who got me into it, and Danielle Harris is fantastic. She steals the second one if you asked me, but Brad Dourif is terrific in it.
He then adds:
And then the second one is really great because it completely can now go on its own.
Nice! So do YOU agree with Tarantino (and me) and think Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN movies deserve more respect? Let us know either way below.
For those who might not know, Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN began:
Nearly two decades after being committed to a mental institution for killing his stepfather and older sister, Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) breaks out, intent on returning to the town of Haddonfield, Ill. He arrives in his hometown on Halloween with the indomitable purpose of hunting down his younger sister, Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton). The only thing standing between Michael and a Halloween night of bloody carnage is psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).
Rob Zombie wrote and directed HALLOWEEN (2007) based on the original classic written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Zombie also produced along with Malek Akkad and Andy Gould. It starred Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, and William Forsythe. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and The Weinstein Company unleashed the film into theaters back on August 31, 2007.