Halloween: The 1978 Original Version VS. the Rob Zombie Version

Will You See the 2007 Version?

Do you believe in the boogie man? The Halloween movie is all about the fact that the boogie man is real and exists. Now if you have seen the original 1978 version with the legendary actress Jamie Lee Curtis who played the sister, Laurie Strode and Donald Pleasence who played the original Dr. Sam Loomis, you will see that the boogie man is Laurie's brother, Michael Myers. Everyone recognizes Michael Myers as the man wearing the $1.98 William Shatner's mask spray painted a bluish white. This eerie humorless look of the mask that the actor, Nick Castle, wore as he played the shadow shape of Michael Myers is as recognizable to horror movie fans as the golden arches are to kids that eat McDonald's Happy Meals.

Through the movie we follow Michael Myers from one killing to another as he searches for the where about of his long lost baby sister. The suspense of each person he stalks leaves you clutching your seat and holding your breath as you see a hand go slack as a knife comes down, yet we see no almost no blood and minimal dead bodies. Very few bodies are visibly stabbed in the 1978 movie as John Carpenter showed the movie in a suspenseful way.

Rob Zombie now gives us his version of this classic due for release at theaters August 21, 2007. Casting Scout Taylor Compton as Laurie Strode, Malcolm McDowel as Dr Loomis and Tyler Mane as Michael Myers we have actors that are recreating the drama of a classic film with a new twist.

Having seen several of Rob Zombie's horror movies I can honestly say that as a director his movies will make you scream for your mama as you hide your eyes from the bloody gore and the torment his prey experience at the hands of the predators. Rob Zombie's twisted mind will indeed bring a new view to the classic tale of the boy who became the boogie man in the movie Halloween.