Rob Zombie Vs. The Boogeyman (w/ Super Spoilers Regarding HALLOWEEN)

Published: September 1, 2007, 6:10 am

“You Can’t Kill The Boogeyman” - Tommy Doyal, John Carpenter’s Halloween ( 1978 ) Let me repeat that again. You. Can’t. Kill. The Boogeyman. I took in a viewing of Rob Zombie’s re-imagining of Halloween this evening. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and for all of Zombie’s tinkering, I went with it. Sure, he gave Michael so much back story, he was “reduced” in a way to being a ven diagram of where all the best and perfect serial killers origins intersect. He was changed from “pure evil” to just a perfect storm of circumstances to create the most unremorseful killer. That is until the end. The end in which, instead of letting Laurie keep squeezing the trigger of the gun to finally end his wrath or disappearing into the darkness like the unstoppable darkness that he is, he reaches up and pulls the trigger himself. He kills himself! Everything, and I mean everything, that the movie builds and creates is shattered with the raising

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