This could be a killer box office weekend for Rob Zombie's "Halloween II." I'm sure this movie is a tickle and half for fans of Rob Zombie the filmmaker (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects). The movie studio benefit is that Zombie combines his blood-drenched horror brand name with the Halloween film franchise for audiences who may not have been born when John Carpenter's original hit the scene in 1978.
This review from Ruth McCann of The Washington Post doesn't give the flick points for horror artistry (it's not Carpenter) but admits that the film does what it is supposed to do -- scary the #@&% out of you.
I may or may not see it this weekend. I hear that Zombie's "Halloween II" has a quasi-supernatural Michael Myers and that cancels a little bit of the fun for me. However, my only horror alternative this weekend seems to be watching young adult teenager/twenty-somethings die ridiculous deaths in "The Final Destination."
Maybe I'll just go see Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock."
Note: Robert apologizes for the lead to this post.
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