Zombie....Why all the hate?

[mpstjohn]

If Zombie's film wasn't called Halloween, I might've enjoyed it. Unfortunately Carpenter's film worked because of its subtlety, because of what Carpenter left to our imagination.

Zombie's film is completely lacking subtlety. He spells everything out in graphic detail, and while this might've worked for a slasher film by any other name, Halloween originally worked because it was conceived to leave a lot of what we know about Myers ambiguous.

Keeping the shell of what Carpenter created and injecting the empty space with rednecks didn't really do it for me.

There's also a matter of Zombie not keeping his word. He said he'd never go back to Halloween after his initial remake. He broke that promise. He said he'd never do a remake, and if he did not a horror remake. He's got a remake of The Blob coming up. H2 seems like a testament to him hating Halloween fans. What he did to Loomis and what he wanted in Michael Myers (a maskless man who shouts at Loomis at the end of his Director's Cut) hurt to watch.