"Splat Pack" horror filmmaker, Rob Zombie's (The Devil's Rejects, House of 1,000 Corpses) re-imagination of the original slasher film Halloween makes it mark as a 2-disc Unrated Director's Cut DVD. One of the most terrifying and iconic horror franchises, Halloween delves into the troubled childhood of anti-hero Michael Myers and uncovers the making of the pathologically disturbed masked killer. Former World Champion Wrester Tyler Mane (X-Men, Troy, The Scorpion King), a.k.a. Big Sky, gives a bone-chilling performance as a psychotic but silent killer who escapes from a mental institution, dons the haunting guise, wields a kitchen knife and wreaks havoc on his hometown. Halloween also features suspenseful and thrilling performances from Malcolm McDowell ("Entourage," "Heroes"), William Forsythe (The Devil's Rejects, Freedomland), Danny Trejo (Grindhouse's Machete, Once Upon A Time In Mexico), among others. Since being introduced to audiences in 1978 by acclaimed genre director John Carpenter the Halloween franchise has become an institution and features one of the most iconic villains in film history. Available in the original theatrical version (featuring both widescreen and full screen presentations) and an Unrated widescreen Director's Cut with 11 extra minutes of footage too terrifying for theaters, the Halloween DVD includes a second disc with seventeen deleted scenes, bloopers, casting sessions and more.

Synopsis:
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their sleepy small town. Sixteen years ago, a young boy named Michael Myers brutally killed his stepfather, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Now, he's escaped from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on continuing his murderous rampage.

By: Kristyn

If one director could handle the remake of the classic Halloween horror film, then that director has to be Rob Zombie. Zombie has brought us such movies as House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, this time he turned down the gore factor, only ever so slightly, and brings a new telling to the story of Michael Myers.

What I enjoyed about this film, is that the audience can finally learn the back story, as to who Michael Myers really is and how he became a killing machine. In the beginning you can almost feel a slight sympathy for little Michael Myers, who was picked on and abused by his family and peers.

That sympathy begins to fade however, when we see that Michael is a classic anti-social personality, with a violent and animalistic killing nature. He appears to have no soul. Now whether or not that soul was killed during the years of childhood abuse or was completely ingrained in his personality from the start is still yet to be determined. I enjoyed the fact that Zombie did not stray too far away from the plot of the original film, but gave the audience a look from behind Michael's eyes. We see the story unfold from Michael's point of view, rather than his victims.

The film still leaves many unanswered questions, such as details of Michael's life in the sanitarium, how he became supernatural, and the token cliff-hanger ending. All in all I do feel that Zombie, gave proper kudos to John Carpenters 1978 vision and his re-imagination of the story offers some new insight into what is "behind the mask" and manages to keep audiences at the edge of their seats with the visuals and cinematography.