In the 1979 Halloween finale, Dr. Loomis shot Michael 6 times, and he fell out of the window and disappeared. What happened to him has been shown in countless sequels, but I think the real Michael Myers was just waiting for Rob Zombie to make a remake. A remake that will surpass Carpenter's original

In the remake, Rob Zombie creates a whole backstory from which you can see what made Michael a ruthless psychopathic killer. An alcoholic stepfather, a whore sister, a little sister and a dancer mother in a club. I've never liked this move, but it works well for Zombies. You don't wonder why on the night of October 31st Michael put on a mask and went to disembowel his sister. Everything is very clear in the remake. Although I would not call the almost hour-long backstory the best part of the film. Everything is too banal, and more psychology was required from the background, which is no more in the film than in all Rob Zombie films combined.

Halloween 1978 is, without a doubt, a milestone in the history of horror. But now it's a relic of the times. You can dig into Wikipedia articles or critical writings as much as you like and yell about the genius of the film, but it's hard for me to imagine that right now a group of friends will gather to watch Halloween and celebrate the ingenious first-person murder scene; and it's certainly unlikely that any of them will analyze the psychological portrait of Myers. John Carpenter's Halloween is outdated, and the reinterpretation Rob Zombie made seemed necessary to me. Whether it turned out to be a failure or a success is a personal matter for everyone. In my opinion, Halloween 2007 is definitely an order of magnitude higher than the original.

P.S. I'm getting carried away with the negative reviews of the film, where everyone points to horny naked girls, closet-like Myers, Michael's stupid escape from the hospital, unprocessed characters and the lack of suspense. Revisit the original Halloween and believe me, you'll see the same thing there.