Great.And an already bloated cast becomes even more so.I don't have anything against casting genre legends but this reeks so much of "stunt casting" it's ridiculous.I don't know how anyone will be able to take this thing seriously.PLEASE DIMENSION EXECS,TAKE CONTROL OF THIS THING AND EITHER MAKE ZOMBIE MAKE A REAL HALLOWEEN FILM OR GET SOMEONE ELSE!

One reason that made the original film great was a core group, an ensemble cast. Who's gonna be next in this clusterfuck? Zombie, sometimes LESS IS MORE! I swear, it's looking like an episode of The Love Boat or Fantasy Island everyday.

One thing I've personally felt alright with is the cast. I know it's alot of has-been retread actors, but there is something cool to that element that I like. Like I've said before, I don't want to see that Lindsay Lohan generation of actor's near this thing. We are on touchy subject people, I know. Sauron, my friend, YES I said it, my friend. Let's get this thing rollin.........

This is ~!@$ing stupid. There weren't even this many people in the previous 20 installments combined. Maybe there is a God after all, and the movie will be 5 minutes long with 85 minutes of credits.

Here's what I think.....no offense to those who hate RZ's idea's. I can understand your frustration. This movie does need a NEW direction to be be scary again. I'm tired of the "Michael" that takes 50 bullets and 20 stab wounds and still walks away. He's become a Freddy and Jason character. The supernatural stuff is lame. I loved how I felt watching the original. He was someone that could live down your street.By making him human, the more scarier I think he gets.I don't know if RZ will accomplish this, but I do like the idea of exploring his childhood, what makes him crack. If anybody watches Court TV like I do, there's just a scare about most serial killers that they are like most people, but a little off, and then they snap. That's what I think "Michael" is or should be. Some detail, a little mystery will make him scarier than ever....I hope.

No offence, Jonny, but I think you missed the point of 'Halloween' if you think the supernatural angle is lame and Michael will be much scarier as a common-or-garden serial killer. And saying that Michael has become a Jason or Freddy character is ass-backwards; Jason and Freddy became Michael characters, because *he* was the original unstoppable masked killer - he led, and others followed. You say that Michael was scary because he "was someone that could live down your street" - will you still feel this way when the new Michael is a dysfunctional trailer-trash kid with a stripper for a mother? How many of those live in your neighbourhood? None? You say that "a little mystery will make him scarier than ever" while advocating the idea of exploring his childhood and revealing "what makes him crack" - those statements are contradictions, aren't they? The original Michael had mystery, whereas Rob Zombie's version leaves nothing to the imagination. After watching 'Hallowen' - and becoming a fan in the process - did Zombie really think "Wow, this movie is so cool, and if I ever get a chance to remake it, I'll change all the things that make it cool"? What a dumbass. I wouldn't be surprised if he watched the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and thought "Wow, this is so cool, but it would be so much cooler if that big guy didn't wear human face-masks or wield a chainsaw". With this remake, Zombie is following the pack, not leading it. And by turning Michael into a hulking figure that is powered by a barely-contained rage, he's taking him closer to a generic Jason figure instead of the truly original - and disturbing - figure that Carpenter's unemotional Shape was. The saddest thing about all of this is that Zombie's remake will no doubt make a ton of money, leading to one or two dismal sequels, and the real Michael Myers will forever be trapped in that fire at the end of 'Halloween: Resurrection'. And a lot of fans will be back where they started - hoping for a new 'Halloween' movie, *not* a remake.

The thing about Myers, he was almost like a physical ghost. He was pure Evil and he'd always be lurking around in the background. Part of what made him scary was the mystery behind him. They tried to explain it with the Thorn plot and they fucked it up! Now they're gonna explain it with a trailer trash family. Still as i say i wait to see the final product. The series does need a restart but not if they're gonna change Myers into a leatherface/Jason rip off. Jason and Michael are very similar but at the same time they have subtle differences that make them who they are!!!

I think you have some valid point's MMO.I Know my view's are not popular. I never did or will like the supernatural angle to the film. I find that keeping him real is more scary. Because the other side of that is just unbelievable. If I'm contradicting myself, I'm not meaning to. But I think a little background and some mystery will work if done right. And I'm not saying RZ's gonna do that. But this story can evolve. Jason and Freddy are copy cats. But I think Michael is different. The original does have a REAL element to it. He does get shot, but for all we know it was not fatal. It's the LAME sequels that introduced all the supernatuaral stuff. That's why in my opinion they are not good. They turned him into a Freddy/Jason.

Here's a thing about story telling and Halloween. To start with, forget about all the sequels, and concentrate on the original. Jonny is correct in that the original's success is built around "plausability"--rather, the notion that something of the such could actually happen rather than having a fantastical element to it. Hollywood, for what ever reason, loves to veer to the fantastical side of things, failing miserably to realize that the more real one keeps something, the more people will have a chance to relate to it. As with the best horror films, Halloween derives its premise within the family. Why? Because it's those who are closest to us that can weild the most damage in a story. Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Halloween, heck--Friday the 13th... They all have this element to them about the destructive elements/forces disentigrating the American Family. Why? Because the American Family represents the ideal, the slice of the pie, the dream... blah blah blah. It's Homer in October Sky turning to murder rather than shooting off rockets. Horror, in a sense, is the antithesis of the American Dream, and what Halloween does is represent the destruction of the American Family. Secondly, there is no supernatural element in Halloween. What does exist, however, is the mythos, and it's this success of the mythos that we sometimes feel (especially at the end) that the story has a supernatural element, when in fact, it doesn't. The mythos is set at the beginning of the film with Michael killing his sister. Why? What for? What happened to him? These are all questions that set up the myth, which over time develops. The myth of the boogeyman had existed long before Michael Myers, however, the boogeyman has never been personified. So, to the residents of Haddonfield, Illinois (or Santa Barbara, where the film was shot for that matter), the mythos of Michael Myers as the boogeyman grew and was validated by the final shots in the movie when Laurie Strode asks "Was that the boogeyman?" and Dr. Loomis replies "As a matter of fact, it was the boogeyman". This would all mean nothing at this point if it weren't for the audience taking Loomis's POV out the window to see that Michael, after being shot half a dozen times, is nowhere to be found. Now we, too, believe he is. When we speak of Mythos, it's Dr. Loomis's character that the myth lives through--without him constantly warning Sheriff Brackett, there would be no myth--so in that sense, he's little more than a plot device to let the backstory in.

For one thing I wish people would stop bringing up the sequels to defend a remake of the original.Another thing is that with the original NOT KNOWING THE SPECIFICS OF MYERS ORIGIN IS EXACTLY WHAT MADE THE MOVIE WORK to the legendary extent (the countless sequels,rip-offs,homages that continue to this day)that it has.With the original if one chooses to believe he's supernatural he is free to do so.If he chooses to believe he's mortal he's free to do that as well.ALL POINTS OF VIEW ARE VALID!To demystify is to wholly miss the point of Halloween.

hey rob, here is a great idea...have michael get into orgies, bounce bad checks, drink buds from his trailer stoop, drive an el camino, chew on tobacco, etc anything else you can think of to make him a white trash product of society. thought you knew why halloween worked so well and why the sequels failed. rob you are catering to the mtv crowd with your recycled ideas. i don't want to be shocked in this movie, i want to be left wondering...kinda like part 1. suspense,mood, terror, shadows....not shock, awe, brute strength, nudity, gore, incest.

i remember at least 2 or 3 times in my various film classes talking about rob carpenter or halloween for various reasons....suspense, mood, shadowing, lack of gore...it usually is regarded with psycho as a classic movie etc.....rob, do you think any of your ideas will be looked at as unique, different, groundbreaking? please reconsider this feel/vision of yours...michael myers worked so well in the original because we don't know much about him and we see very little of him. your ideas? see and hear from michael most of the movie, and understand and explain everything he does. rob zombie? how bout rob dumbie!

omg i am tired of people crying like babys just because they dont get what they want. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO watch this movie. JUST INGORE THE DAMN MOVIE IF YOU DONT LIKE IT what your hearing!!! not even a trailer of a picture of the movie is shown and people are already complaining its gonna suck? WTF. people need to grow up. turn on your damn dvd player and watch the original. THis is rob zombies halloween, not carpinters, this is his verson, his vison, his damn movie. he does what he wants not you dumb ****'s who already hate this movie for no reason. grow up. this is a whole diferent direction, idk about you but the sequals were geting boring already, micheal just walking after teenagers with a knife,wow how exciting, same old thing. its TIME FOR A CHANGE! by the way the casting so for just keeps on geting better and better :). keep up the good wok rob !

Jason,judging by your spelling skills and general lack of knowledge of grammar I will try to put this in words you can understand:"wE nO LyKE sCrypT!Skrypt sTUpiD!wE HaVe OPinneON aNd WrYte TO exspRESs iT."Jason,to paraphrase a line from one of your boyfriend's movies:"Screw this remake.Screw Rob Zombie.And most of all SCREW YOU!"

P.S.,Jason:"Keep up the good "WOK"

superfry hahaha zombie fans/mtv generation fans/whatever is cool/new etc is definitely awesome fans....we know the original will be there, we don't want a shot for shot remake, and zombie's movie has nothing to do with shitty sequels. we are tired of hearing fanboys TYPE THESE THOUGHTS IN UPPERCASE. we don't like the script reviews, casting sheet, zombie interviews, and myspace comments from the man. i was on board for someone new coming in and trying to make it scary. but he is just missing the basics here.

It seems the majority of the people who comment on here hate this remake already. And I'm just another one of those people to add to that list. I was a little hopeful in the beginning. That is till I read the casting sheet to the script reviews and my hope has pretty much been destroyed from there on in. Now I'm just curious at how much this movie will bomb when it comes out.

The latest word on the street is that Michael Myers dies at the end of the film... From tongue cancer. Because you don't always die from tobacco. But, you do if you've been in a psych ward most of your life and don't have health insurance.

hope captain spaulding shows up here in the movie. my husband will make you all proud...that is if you are from the trailer park. i bet you my ass alone will make this movie go over 25 million in sales. (SOS please help, rob is holding me against my will...he is a real white trash pervert. he makes me step on his balls with my high heels)

leave jason alone. hes got a point. i dont see why people are judging by a script, which many things can change during filming. damn losers, get a life you fat asses. you guys are the type of people that make america look bad. anyways, i have high hopes for this movie. i agree with jason that this movie does need a fresh start and that sequels were starting to get old. the casting looks increadible. zombie is a very good film maker and i respect him for what hes doing with the series. kudos to him.

rrrrrrrradio station!, you state that "there is no supernatural element in Halloween" - can I ask what you think happens to Michael at the end of the first movie? Is he a mortal man who crawls off to die, or does he head for the nearest A&E to get stitched up before he bleeds to death? <g> On the DVD commentary track, Carpenter says "they [the audience] want the evil to be stopped, but of course, he can never be stopped". That's not something you can say of a mortal killer - Carpenter is insinuating that the Shape isn't human. And Carpenter's the guy who co-wrote the movie(s) that started the whole 'unstoppable killer' thing in the first place - if he says the Shape is unstoppable, unlike a mortal killer, that's good enough for me. Michael Myers is the boogeyman myth given form - the ending of the movie is an affirmation of that. I'm not sure why people have a problem with the supernatural element - most of the big horror icons are supernatural in nature: Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Pinhead, Candyman... it's a long list. The idea that Michael Myers is mortal takes away from the horror, because we all know that a mortal man can be bested, can eventually be stopped.

Hi,Amanda.One question.Do you know what a script is?It's what movies come from.When fundamental elements of a script are flawed(oh,like a complete and utter disregard/disrespect for the original,what made it work,&it's fans)it's like bone cancer.When cancer's in the bone,it's in the body.When the script sucks this bad,the movie will suck too.Scorscese,Spielberg,and the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock can't make gold out of this crap.9ckay

How does it make Rob Zombie a very good film maker, he did only 2 movies?? and one of them wasnt very good at all (House....) i cant tell about Devil Rejects i never seen it, damn people say something that makes sense!!

i am serious, i am to to rob what katie is to tom....a prisoner who smiles pretty for the cameras in fear of torture. all he does is talk about hicks, trailer trash, rape, incest, strippers, masturbation, polaroids, etc. he likes when i use the sex toy on his backside, claims its research for his new movie ideas. he has also invited captain spaulding into our bed for an Anything Goes session.

Golly,I wish I was so easily amused as to think that a movie featuring little kids masturbating to dead animals and retarded people getting raped might even be CLOSE to a good movie.Shock value does not = talent.Writing dialog that sounds like Q.Tarantino on oxycontin(hillbilly heroin,but you Zombie fans already know that)does not=talent.To you people who say"It's time for a change".I agree.But to paraphrase a line from "Office Space":"Why should Michael Myers change?Rob Zombie's the one who sucks!"