RagingBull80

I'm looking forward to this.
Honestly, the use of the music and the mask are what had me right off. I'm glad they kept that the same.
The casting of McDowell as Loomis is perfect.

Mr. Cinema

This trailer looks promising. And Michael actually appears scary again.

Mittman

Totally agree. The mask and the music IS Halloween.

I think the biggest change in this film will be the stuff about baby Mikey and I think it'll probably take up about a third of the film. I always thought the original Halloween was a tad slow until about 45 minutes in, perhaps Zombie will speed that part of the film up and we can go from the flashbacks to the action. I really like seeing Michael's eyes behind the mask . . . scary.

Artman

Looked pretty good. I know Saw 4's coming out and all but couldn't they have released this closer to October? I guess August worked ok for H20's box office though... hmm.

Ronnie Dobbs

This worked so well for Gus Van Sant's "Psycho" no wonder the studio was jumping at the chance to do it.

Seantn

? Psycho was a shot for shot remake. How is this similar?

The script is online, if you read it you'll see that it's quite different from the original.

DRG

She said in a interview she is doing a topless scene for this, if anyone's interested.

Slumbering Fist

The script was leaked online and the blurb/reviews I read said, apparently, the first part focuses on him as a kid and teen going nutso, being in the asylum (so there is more Loomis, more backstory on Mike’s evil development), and then the last half gets to big Mike breaking out and going on a rampage.

The audience I saw Grindhouse with showed very little reaction to the new-Halloween trailer, though, to be fair, Hostel 2 faired worse, the crowd gave it disinterested groans.

The Valeyard

Why on earth is this coming out in August? I would expect a movie called Halloween would come out around....um....Halloween.

JDF5244

I thought it looked good. Looking forward to August.

candyrocket786

Looks interesting. I'm in.

TheMovieman

I might actually go and see this. It looks pretty good, actually...

DthRdrX

If my memory serves me correctly the Halloween series has had quite a lot of releases in the July-August timeframe. Go figure. It's probably better this time than being released with Saw 4 in October.

islandclaws

I've been a huge Rob Zombie fan since '92 and I've always been behind anything he's done, but this still seems totally unecessary to me. People should be remaking bad films, not good ones and certainly not horror classics. The trailer would've looked amazing to me if Halloween had never existed until now. But it does. And this ain't it.

JIF

They're obviously running away from SAW 4. Still, I think 2 horror movies around Halloween could have been a good double feature.

TylerDurden_73

LOve the original, and will see this. Same with Dawn of the dead. Zombie being involved only piques my interest even more. Loved devil's rejects too.

LivingINClip

Running away from Saw 4, that is just messed up. I would think the franchise name "Halloween", on the actual holiday would equal guranteed sales. With that said, the trailer left me very lukewarm. The one thing I love about the original is the fact that there is no backstory on why young Mikey went crazy. He was just a boy who went crazy, broke out and killed some more.. That was the charm of it, this on the other hand, wants to go thru the current trend of explaining why the killer is who he is, which to me, equals boredom.

RagingBull80

I think having it come out in October woule be cool since it's called 'Halloween' and all but honestly, I'm excited that it's coming out sooner.

'Halloween' is my favorite horror movie of all-time and I actually welcome this remake. I think it's right that it's in the hands of Zombie.

Now, I don't have the same feelings about the 'Escape From New York' remake, which is one of my all-time favorites.

The Bus

This is probably more of a studio decision to remake Halloween and they could've done a lot worse than pick Zombie to helm it.

wm lopez

If the movie bombs in August than they can sell the dvd in October.
And if it's a hit than they can sell the dvd in December to all the anti-christmas crowd.

MasterofDVD

I'm not a fan of the original films but I am certainly willing to give the remake a shot. I felt the older movies were paced too slow and I'm sure in this day and age they have paced the movie so people with short attention spans, like myself, will enjoy the film more.

Matthew Chmiel

Considering Akkad doesn't control the franchise anymore, everything is pretty much a step-up at this point now that the Weinsteins are in control. Christ, the Weinsteins can't screw the franchise up as bad as Akkad did, right? Right?

Mercury&Solace

Ehhhhh trailer looks boring, looks like every other low budget horror/remake film that Hollywood has been pushing out the last few years. I am on the fence.

Seantn

That's the thing. Some people have reacted so negatively to this film, but it looks no worse than Halloween 5, Halloween 6, Halloween 8, etc... In fact, I think it looks like the best one since the original. Would you guys rather Rob Zombie put Busta Rhymes in this film? Or LL Cool J? Or how about a storlyine involving an ancient cult that causes Michael to kill? The Halloween series was on such a negative downward spiral since...well, Halloween 2 (even though I enjoyed parts of 2,3,and 4) that I don't get why people would get all up in arms about him making a Halloween film.

Indy Jones Fan

I can't help but think it's a huge mistake to not release this in October. I know my excitement for this movie would be ten fold if it was.