A Nightmare on Elm Street

[Doomsday101]

Let Zombie have a crack at it. The Halloween remakes are great, well the first one was, have yet to see the second.

I agree. Rob Zombie remake of Halloween is better than the original. I have yet to see part 2 but the 1st part was good

 

[Khartun]

You've got to be kidding me right? Right? The original Halloween movie is, IMO of course, the best horror movie ever. It was just about as perfect as one of those movies can be and Zombie came along, with a pretty near perfect template, and completely, totally, and utterly ruined it. Zombie deserves to be beaten senseless for his terrible remake of that classic.

Not at all kidding, I love Zombie's Halloween.

I am a huge fan of old horror shows and really have no problem with people remaking them, although I didn't much care for the Friday the 13th remake.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Not at all kidding, I love Zombie's Halloween.

I am a huge fan of old horror shows and really have no problem with people remaking them, although I didn't much care for the Friday the 13th remake.

I'm all for a good remake of old classic horror. I'm not for totally changing it up and screwing it up. Zombie went with that form instead of simply updating it, with some quality changes, and giving an old classic a new look.

Totally sucked in my opinion. But to each their own.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Apparently, they used CGI to blur out his face in the trailer. He's suppose to look like this.

http://img22.*************/img22/6562/freddya.jpg

If that's the real look then it sucks. Sorry but it sucks. That's not nearly as cool, or scary, as the original and you'd think with so much update technology now that it wouldn't be hard to make a more scary and cool look. This just sucks.

 

[Concord]

I agree. Rob Zombie remake of Halloween is better than the original. I have yet to see part 2 but the 1st part was good

Out of your mind.

:laugh2:

 

[Doomsday101]

Out of your mind.

:laugh2:

People have said worse things. :laugh2:

I like it because it showed what the original only hinted at. Michael Myers went to the insane asylum as a kid then got out Zombie puts a different angle to the story. I don't care to see a movie redone and be exactly like the 1st one, he put his touch on it and still kept some of the original in it.

 

[Aikmaniac]

I agree. Rob Zombie remake of Halloween is better than the original. I have yet to see part 2 but the 1st part was good

You're on some good hallucinogenics my friend.


The original Halloween has no equal. That movie scared the living you know what out of me and all of my friends. The music, the atmosphere (suspense vs. gore), the direction, Donald Pleasance...everything was perfect.

It seems like today, the higher the gore factor, the more imaginative the kills are, all equal a movie being scary.


Watch the movie over again Doomsday.

 

[the kid 05]

http://www.movieweb.com/play/VIbzBcgiXzK6ei?KeepThis=true&height=557&width=980&TB_iframe=true

I didn't know they were doing yet another re-make of a movie.

they are remaking this, the friday series and evil dead

edit: just watched the trailer...wth did they do to freddy? looks nothing like the orig which is imo an awesome look

 

[TellerMorrow34]

People have said worse things. :laugh2:

I like it because it showed what the original only hinted at. Michael Myers went to the insane asylum as a kid then got out Zombie puts a different angle to the story. I don't care to see a movie redone and be exactly like the 1st one, he put his touch on it and still kept some of the original in it.

Actually I hated the way he changed that part of the story. I didn't mind the showing him in the asylum part, I actually liked adding that in, but I hated how he changed the way he got there and the why.

The thing that made Myers scary, in the original, was that he was supposed to be a kid from a good, middle class (maybe even upper middle class for back then), family who loved him. There was no real reason for him to become a monster which is what made him becoming some sick monster so much better.

Zombie's version ruined that. They put him in a poor home, with a poor family situation, where he's always being picked on and ridiculed by his sister and his mother's dead beat boyfriend, the mean kids at school. The reasons for him to become the way he were aren't nearly as good because there are obvious reasons there that the child is mentally ruined and snaps. It was almost as if Zombie was going out of his way to try and show that the Myers character had reasons to be so cold where as the original made it clear, without having to be over the top about it, to show that he was just this soul less, evil, person and there was no reasoning beyond it.

At least to me that's what made the original way so much better. He was just freaking out of his mind, cold blooded, evil and you didn't know why. There was no reason. That made it so much more scary, IMO. I've always thought that the things you can't explain, the killers that you just can't put your finger on why, for any reason, they are the way they are is much more terrifying and such then someone that people can point out that they were raped, abused, mistreated, and mentally screwed up from a bad life.

In Zombie's version I almost found myself actually rooting for Myers because I felt so bad for the way the kid was being done. To me that's the exact opposite of what a horror movie should do. You shouldn't find yourself rooting for the villian in those. At least I dont think a person should but that's an each to their own kind of thing as well.

 

[Doomsday101]

You're on some good hallucinogenics my friend.


The original Halloween has no equal. That movie scared the living you know what out of me and all of my friends. The music, the atmosphere (suspense vs. gore), the direction, Donald Pleasance...everything was perfect.

It seems like today, the higher the gore factor, the more imaginative the kills are, all equal a movie being scary.


Watch the movie over again Doomsday.

I liked them both and have them both on DVD. I just thought the Zombie version was better in how the entire story line was put together. It had nothing to do with the gore factor. To me the gore is not what makes a movie scary it is the believability in the story. To me the Exorcist is still one of the all time scary movies

 

[Aikmaniac]

I liked them both and have them both on DVD. I just thought the Zombie version was better in how the entire story line was put together. It had nothing to do with the gore factor. To me the gore is not what makes a movie scary it is the believability in the story. To me the Exorcist is still one of the all time scary movies

That's the thing about the original. There was no reasoning behind his killings or methods. That's what made it so scary.

Believability of a kid growing up in a TPT household who liked to eat candy corn.

Carpenter probably laughed his way through that whole movie. What's with the Jason Voorhies-look anyway? Jason copied Myers, not the other way around.

 

[Doomsday101]

That's the thing about the original. There was no reasoning behind his killings or methods. That's what made it so scary.

Believability of a kid growing up in a TPT household who liked to eat candy corn.

Carpenter probably laughed his way through that whole movie. What's with the Jason Voorhies-look anyway? Jason copied Myers, not the other way around.

I thought both versions were good, just my preference is Zombie version.

 

[Timbo2st]

If that's the real look then it sucks. Sorry but it sucks. That's not nearly as cool, or scary, as the original and you'd think with so much update technology now that it wouldn't be hard to make a more scary and cool look. This just sucks.

No, I was wrong. Apparently, it's fake and won't be look of Freddy.

 

[Rampage]

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[Khartun]

[youtube]wY53IlNKdqw[/youtube]

That looks pretty cool. I'll go see it.

 

[kmp77]

I captured this from the trailer.

http://img27.*************/img27/6626/freddyb.jpg