I've Read The Script (Halloween 2007)

[novakru]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

BEFORE heading to DVD .

What kind of figures are we talking when they DO hit DVD release??

[Danielnogo]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

Just to keep the facts clear

TCM Remake - $9.2M budget - $107M in box office
Amityville Horror Remake - $19M budget - $86M in box office
House of Wax Remake - $30M budget - $45M in box office

none of those films were "flops." As a metter of fact the first two were HUGE hits and eve House of Wax made its money back BEFORE heading to DVD

The key to horror is keep the budget below $20Million.

I didn't mean financial flops, I meant critical flops.

horror movies are rob zombie's entire life. he owns nearly every horror movie ever made and i am sure that he both loves and respects the original halloween quite a lot. now the fact that he is changing it is a good thing, people somehow expect remakes to be the same movie as the original. the point is its supposed to be different. now being a horror fan himself he knows us and he dosent want to dissapoint and i dont think he will. just go into the movie with an open mind and i bet you will like it. unless of course you are one of those people that will dislike a movie on the sole reason that it is a remake and will hate it no matter how good it is. thats just being shallow minded.

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by nightmareslasher

horror movies are rob zombie's entire life. he owns nearly every horror movie ever made and i am sure that he both loves and respects the original halloween quite a lot. now the fact that he is changing it is a good thing, people somehow expect remakes to be the same movie as the original. the point is its supposed to be different. now being a horror fan himself he knows us and he dosent want to dissapoint and i dont think he will. just go into the movie with an open mind and i bet you will like it. unless of course you are one of those people that will dislike a movie on the sole reason that it is a remake and will hate it no matter how good it is. thats just being shallow minded.

Very well said, my man - my thoughts exactly.

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[Zero]

Originally Posted by nightmareslasher

horror movies are rob zombie's entire life. he owns nearly every horror movie ever made and i am sure that he both loves and respects the original halloween quite a lot. now the fact that he is changing it is a good thing, people somehow expect remakes to be the same movie as the original. the point is its supposed to be different. now being a horror fan himself he knows us and he dosent want to dissapoint and i dont think he will. just go into the movie with an open mind and i bet you will like it. unless of course you are one of those people that will dislike a movie on the sole reason that it is a remake and will hate it no matter how good it is. thats just being shallow minded.

i hate to say that all the advance word from pre-screenings so far have either been overwhelmingly negative or mildly positive (as in "it isn't as bad as people say it will be"). it will almost certainly make money - that's hardly a question in this day of mass-hype and multi-screen distribution deals - but in the grand scope of horror history it will disappear into the cultural dustbin

[massacre man]

Originally Posted by Zero

i hate to say that all the advance word from pre-screenings so far have either been overwhelmingly negative or mildly positive (as in "it isn't as bad as people say it will be"). it will almost certainly make money - that's hardly a question in this day of mass-hype and multi-screen distribution deals - but in the grand scope of horror history it will disappear into the cultural dustbin

All of the reviews I read were fairly positive. The AICN ones.

[Zero]

Originally Posted by massacre man

All of the reviews I read were fairly positive. The AICN ones.

"The script is hit and miss. There are some genuinely funny lines, but also some unintentionally funny lines,"

"OK at best, definitely not exceptional or amazing. Maybe "Halloween" fans will enjoy it more, perhaps Rob Zombie fans will as well. Who knows"

"The good news is that it doesn't completely suck. The bad news is that it isn't really good either."

all from review on AICN. and they echo others i've read on-line. i will probably see it - though i'm not a big RZ fan - but I still think it will be disappointing.