Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 12, 2018 3:55:50 GMT
The parody aspect is subtle, but it comes in the form or the presentation and like I have mentioned, it appears to take aspects of all the Halloween films, even Zombie's in tone, and make a melange out of it. Only those in the know would see this though, for casual viewers, they would just see it for what it was. I found the inflating pumpkin thing to be absurd. Was it going in somebodies pool?
Tbh, that inflating pumpkin would be awesome to see in somebody’s pool.
It’s fine if you don’t think too fondly of the film, and that’s completely fine. It wasn’t gonna be for everyone. I just enjoyed it because it was a solid horror film and a great homage to not just the original, but the course of the series, canonical or not.
I didn't come out feeling pumped up or excited about it, like I did with H20 or after viewing Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 on dvd. H20 had a scary opening that was in line with the first 2 Halloweens and Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave a fun and interesting characterization and even though he and his buddy were jerks, they made it work due to the acting. I thought the acting was rather meh overall in this new one.
I don't mind graphic violence, but I think it was overdone here. H20 still had a brutal element to it, but it retained that slashy, metallic cold-cut feel as well. This one was just turgid. I actually felt a bit sick when the doctor got his head stomped on, yet Zombie's films never made me feel like this and they were brutal.