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With US box-office takings of now over 56 million dollars, Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN is not only more successful than John Carpenter’s original, but now even surpasses the previous leader “Halloween H20” from 1998! After the phenomenal entry at number 1 in the US charts in its first week in cinemas, HALLOWEEN has not only earned back its entire budget in one fell swoop, but is overtaking all its predecessors in giant strides.
Rob Zombie has already made a name for himself in the horror genre and established his individual style with uncompromising films such as “House of 1,000 Corpses” and “The Devil’s Rejects”. Now he is realizing his version of John Carpenter’s classic “Halloween – The Night of Horror”. There can hardly be a cinema fan who has not yet heard of serial killer Michael Myers. The story of the psychopathic murderer with the unmistakable mask crowned Jamie Lee Curtis the Scream Queen at the end of the 70s and, as one of the most successful franchises in film history, was continued seven times. Rob Zombie offers cinema audiences his own interpretation of the original screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill – and a different view of the story of HALLOWEEN, which also does not lack the tried-and-tested slasher elements.
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When ten-year-old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) murders for the first time on Halloween night, the residents of the small town of Haddonfield in Illinois are stunned. They would only too gladly like to forget this terrible incident quickly. Michael is put in a closed institution, where Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) tries for years to communicate with the boy. While Haddonfield’s teenagers prepare for a new Halloween years later, Michael (Tyler Mane), now 25 years old, escapes from the institution. And now no one is safe from the ice-cold masked murderer.
