I'm a very big John Carpenter fan. Not just Halloween, but The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, etc. Halloween was the prototype of the mainstream slasher film. It manages to scare the wits out of me to this day. That being said; I thought that Zombie's adaptation was different, but good nonetheless. Certainly not as good as the original, but it managed to lively up the background story a bit. And also gave a bit of realism (a bit, I said) to the concept as a whole. All in all, I gave it a B-.
-R.
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