Halloween (2007)

Réalisateur:

Rob Zombie

Writers (WGA):

Rob Zombie (screenplay)
John Carpenter (1978 screenplay) ...
(suite)

Release Date:

31 août 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Accroche:

Evil Has A Destiny

Plot:

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Plot Keywords:

Hit With Baseball Bat | School Principal | Bathroom Stall | Palm Tree | Rape

Avis des utilisateurs:

Rob Zombie tries to give a monster a soul.

Ensemble

Malcolm McDowell	...	Dr. Samuel Loomis
Brad Dourif	...	Sheriff Lee Brackett
Tyler Mane	...	Michael Myers
Daeg Faerch	...	Michael Myers, age 10
Sheri Moon Zombie	...	Deborah Myers
William Forsythe	...	Ronnie White
Richard Lynch	...	Principal Chambers
Udo Kier	...	Morgan Walker
Clint Howard	...	Doctor Koplenson
Danny Trejo	...	Ismael Cruz
Lew Temple	...	Noel Kluggs
Tom Towles	...	Larry Redgrave
Bill Moseley	...	Zach 'Z-Man' Garrett
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Patty Frost
Steve Boyles	...	Stan Payne
Scout Taylor-Compton	...	Laurie Strode
Danielle Harris	...	Annie Brackett
Skyler Gisondo	...	Tommy Doyal
Jenny Gregg Stewart	...	Lindsey Wallace
Hanna Hall	...	Judith Myers
Kristina Klebe	...	Lynda
Adam Weisman	...	Steve
Sydnie Pitzer	...	Baby Boo
Myla Pitzer	...	Baby Boo
Stella Altman	...	Baby Boo (as Lela Altman)
Dee Wallace	...	Cynthia Strode
Max Van Ville	...	Paul
Nick Mennell	...	Bob Simms
Pat Skipper	...	Mason Strode
Daryl Sabara	...	Wesley Rhoades
Richmond Arquette	...	Deputy Charles
Ken Foree	...	Big Joe Grizzly
Paul Kampf	...	Officer Lowery
Sybil Danning	...	Nurse Wynn
Micky Dolenz	...	Derek Allen
Daniel Roebuck	...	Lou Martini
Mel Fair	...	Taylor Madison
Sid Haig	...	Chester Chesterfield
Nikki Taylor Melton	...	Princess
Deven Streeton	...	Princess
Andreana Weiner	...	Voice Performer (voice)
David Michie	...	Voice Performer (voice)
Paige Pollack	...	Voice Performer (voice)
Jeremy Maxwell	...	Voice Performer (voice)
Barbara Iley	...	Voice Performer (voice)
David Randolph	...	Voice Performer (voice)
Noreen Reardon	...	Voice Performer (voice)
John DeMita	...	Voice Performer (voice)
Nancy Truman	...	Voice Performer (voice)
Daamen J. Krall	...	Voice Performer (voice) (as Daamen Krall)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Kazu Nagahama	...	College student #3 (uncredited)
Amanda Tepe	...	Female Student (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Rob Zombie

Scénaristes (WGA)
Rob Zombie		(screenplay)
John Carpenter		(1978 screenplay) and
Debra Hill		(1978 screenplay)

Produit par
Malek Akkad	....	producer
Patrick Esposito	....	associate producer
Andy Gould	....	producer
Andrew G. La Marca	....	line producer (as Andy La Marca)
Matthew Stein	....	executive producer
Bob Weinstein	....	executive producer
Harvey Weinstein	....	executive producer
Rob Zombie	....	producer

Musique originale
Tyler Bates

Image
Phil Parmet		(director of photography)

Montage
Glenn Garland

Distribution des rôles
Monika Mikkelsen

Création des décors
Anthony Tremblay

Direction artistique
T.K. Kirkpatrick

Décorateur de plateau
Lori Mazuer
Stephanie Ziemer

Création des costumes
Mary E. McLeod		(as Mary McLeod)

Maquillage
Michael Deak	....	makeup effects technician (as Mike Deak)
Yvonne Depatis-Kupka	....	department head hair stylist
Renee Ferruggia	....	key hair stylist
Luis García	....	key makeup artist
Vickie Mynes	....	key hair stylist
Douglas Noe	....	makeup department head
Brian Rae	....	makeup effects technician
Wayne Toth	....	special makeup effects artist
Chris Zega	....	makeup effects technician
Silvi Knight	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Directeur de production
Patrick Esposito	....	post-production supervisor
Andrew G. La Marca	....	production manager (as Andy LaMarca)
Richard Saperstein	....	executive in charge of production
Ed Tapia	....	production supervisor

Assistant réalisateur
Alexander H. Gayner	....	first assistant director (as Alex Gayner)
Emily McGovern	....	second assistant director
Korey Scott Pollard	....	second second assistant director (as Korey Pollard)
Tommy Harper	....	first assistant director: additional photography (uncredited)
Rawn Hutchinson	....	second unit director (uncredited)
John Pontrelli	....	first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
David Waters	....	second assistant director: additional photography (uncredited)

Art Department
John Brunot	....	property master
Robert J. Carlyle	....	construction coordinator
Adam Chambers	....	set decorator production assistant
Susan Cho	....	set decorator buyer
Don 'Tex' Clark	....	leadman: re-shoot
Jeremy Deal	....	on-set greensman
Dennis De George	....	set dresser
Todd Devane	....	on-set dresser
Elixandro Diaz Jr.	....	plaster foreman (as Elixandro Diaz [Juju])
Jason Garner	....	design department assistant
Michael V. Maurice	....	set dresser
Kirstin Mooney	....	art department coordinator
James F. Orendorff	....	construction foreperson
Enrico Paronelli	....	paint supervisor
Neil David Pontecorvo	....	greens foreman
Nick Principe	....	props
Eugenio Quintero	....	plaster foreman
Kelsey Riach	....	set decorator production assistant
Mark Richardson	....	assistant property master
Andre Sowards	....	on-set dresser: additional photography
Chad Vachter	....	assistant property master
Vanessa Velez Boswell	....	assistant property master
Joel Venti	....	storyboard artist
Brent Williams	....	set dresser

Technicien du son
Barney Cabral	....	supervising sound editor
Patrick Cyccone Jr.	....	sound re-recording mixer
Paul Drenning	....	adr mixer
Rickley W. Dumm	....	sound effects editor
Richard Dwan Jr.	....	supervising dialogue editor
Alan Freedman	....	adr mixer
Michael Kreple	....	foley mixer
Daniel J. Leahy	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brian Magerkurth	....	sound mix technician
Sterling Moore	....	utility sound
Nick Neutra	....	foley supervisor
Rick Owens	....	foley artist
Perry Robertson	....	supervising sound editor
Brian Robinson	....	boom operator
Buck Robinson	....	sound mixer
Scott Sanders	....	supervising sound designer
Steve Schatz	....	sound mixing recordist: predubs
Eric Thompson	....	adr mixer
Kevin Zimmerman	....	assistant sound editor

Effets spéciaux
Rachel Leigh Arnold	....	graphic designer
Mark R. Byers	....	special effects coordinator
Mark Byers	....	special effects coordinator
Wayne Toth	....	special effects makeup

Visual Effects
Jamie Baxter	....	digital compositor
Ryan Beadle	....	digital I/O
Sam Dabbs	....	digital compositor
Shaina Holmes	....	digital compositor
Nicholas Kim	....	digital compositor
Paulina Kuszta	....	visual effects coordinator
Amani Williams	....	digital compositor

Cascadeur
Michael H. Barnett	....	stunts
Alex Brown	....	stunt driver
Allison Caetano	....	stunts
Gokor Chivichyan	....	stunts
Christy Cotton	....	stunts
Lori Crowder	....	stunt driver
Ashley Cusato	....	stunts
Joe Davis	....	stunt performer
Alexandria DeFabiis	....	stunt performer
Casey Hendershot	....	stunt double: Tyler Mane
Sara Holden	....	stunt double
Rawn Hutchinson	....	stunt coordinator
Irving E. Lewis	....	stunts
James Logan	....	stunt double
Deborah L. Mazor	....	stunt double: Daryl Sabara
Cassandra McCormick	....	stunt double: Hanna R. Hall
Chris Nielsen	....	stunt double
Chris Nielsen	....	stunts
Brandon Sebek	....	stunt double
Michelle Sebek	....	stunt double
Tim Sitarz	....	stunt double
Jay Torrez	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Marsha Blackburn	....	still photographer
Curtis Bradford	....	gaffer
Mark Carlile	....	lighting technician
Anthony Cobbs	....	additional camera operator
Kathryn Comkowycz	....	additional loader
Hector Corona	....	electrician
Chris Cotterman	....	grip
Michael Cruickshank	....	second assistant camera: orange team
David Daniel	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Bryan Delorenzo	....	film loader
Daryl Didier	....	lighting technician
Steve Gilbert	....	rigging grip
Josh Gundling	....	second assistant camera (as Josh Gundling Williamson)
Tim Hedgecock	....	assistant chief lighting technician
Craig Hudgins	....	rigging grip
Steve Irwin	....	24 frame video operator
Alexandra Kanal	....	additional camera loader
Benjamin Kilmer	....	grip
Matthew Kistenmacher	....	electrician
Matthew F. Leonetti	....	additional photographer
Jay Levy	....	first assistant camera
Justin M. Lubin	....	still photographer: pre-production
Daniel L. Magat	....	lighting technician
BJ McDonnell	....	camera operator: "b" camera
BJ McDonnell	....	steadicam operator
Greg Mitchell	....	video assist operator
Rich Paisley	....	rigging electrician
Vince Palomino	....	key grip
Ernesto Pérez	....	grip
Michael Piekutowski	....	rigging electrician
Steve Rollins	....	electrician
Aaron Schnobrich	....	lighting technician
Aaron Schulte	....	rigging gaffer
Tom Schurke	....	24 frame playback supervisor
Grant Smith	....	grip
James Sprattley	....	first assistant camera: black team
Kevin Wilt	....	electrician

Casting Department
Barbara Harris	....	adr voice casting
Gene Vassilaros	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Artemio Carpio	....	costumer
Ivory Stanton	....	costume ager/dyer
Jennifer Wolf	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Matthew W. Johnson	....	IQ editor
Joel T. Pashby	....	associate editor
Joe Patnaud	....	post-production assistant
Matthew Schmidt	....	assistant editor
Dennis Virkler	....	additional film editor

Music Department
John Carpenter	....	composer: theme music
Amy Decker	....	music coordinator
Michael Farrow	....	scoring mixer
Darrell Hall	....	music editor
Tom Rowland	....	music supervisor
Robin Urdang	....	music consultant
Tim Williams	....	conductor
Tim Williams	....	orchestrator
Rob Zombie	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Rich Bennetti	....	transportation
Rob Byer	....	transportation office coordinator
Jack R. Campbell	....	driver
Dan Gearhart	....	driver
Barry E. Golob	....	driver
Billy R. Hass	....	transportation co-captain
Jeff Hatten	....	driver
Darrell Janson	....	driver
Jerry McMullan	....	driver
Tony Mercier	....	driver
David Muntz	....	driver
Tina Peterson	....	driver
Tommy Rizzo	....	driver
Richard C. Ryan	....	transportation coordinator: additional photography
Vicki Sousa	....	driver
Paul Stanbrough	....	driver
Chuck Tomasello	....	driver
Wayne Williams	....	transportation coordinator
Randall Wolff	....	driver

Divers
Renato Avenia	....	stand-in: Michael Myers
Hunt Baker	....	stand-in: Paul
Paul Belenardo	....	production accountant
Adrian Lee Borden	....	stand-in: Laurie Strode
Alexander T. Carey	....	production assistant
Justin Carville	....	first assistant accountant
Lana Dandan	....	set production assistant
Srdjan Dobic	....	set production assistant
Diane Durant	....	script supervisor
Glen Evans	....	assistant: Mr. Zombie
Jonn Faircrest	....	stand-in: Dr. Samuel Loomis
Patrick Fogarty	....	production assistant
Alex Franklin	....	development executive
Karen E. Gilbert	....	key assistant location manager
Jason Michael Hatfield	....	assistant to director
Jason Michael Hatfield	....	assistant: Rob Zombie, additional photography
Justin Haut	....	assistant production coordinator
Shawn Hueston	....	assistant location manager
Michael Kehoe	....	key craft service
Angela Kodicek	....	stand-in: Deborah Myers]
Dena Kollar	....	stand-in: Michael Myers, age 10
Christian Labarta	....	set production assistant
Ashley Lamont	....	production assistant
Louis A. Lanni	....	set production assistant
Sheila Louie	....	rigging medic
Jeff Maynard	....	post executive
Julian Meiojas	....	production assistant
Don Mink	....	post-production accountant
Sammy Montana	....	assistant: Mr. Akkad
Michael Neale	....	location manager
Mark Noland	....	production assistant
Josh Novak	....	production assistant
Peter Onsmark	....	set production assistant
James Payne	....	production accountant
Karen Shane	....	second assistant accountant
Andrew Stahl	....	production assistant
Jessica Jane Stewart	....	production assistant
Chris Stiles	....	production assistant
Sophia Tapia	....	payroll accountant
Nate Taylor	....	key assistant location manager
Ron Vaccaro	....	stand-in: Sheriff Brackett
Sasha Veneziano	....	assistant production coordinator
J.D. Woods	....	production assistant
Alex L. Worman	....	unit publicist
Donald E. Wygal	....	production coordinator
Hans Hernke	....	photo double: Adam Weisman (uncredited)

Thanks
Rima Akkad Monla	....	thanks
Moustapha Akkad	....	in memory of
Patricia Akkad	....	thanks
Moustapha Monla	....	thanks
Tarek Monla	....	thanks
Ziad Monla	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Dimension Films (presents)
• Nightfall Productions
• Spectacle Entertainment Group
• Trancas International Films
• Weinstein Company, The

Distributors

• Dimension Films (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Alfa Films (2007) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (2007) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Lucky Red (2007) (Italy) (DVD)
• Medyavizyon (2007) (Turkey) (theatrical)
• Nordisk Film Theatrical Distribution (2007) (Finland) (all media)
• Odeon (2007) (Cyprus) (theatrical)
• Odeon (2007) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2007) (UK) (theatrical)
• Prorom Media-Trade (2007) (Romania) (theatrical)
• Roadshow Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Senator Film (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Senator Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Viva International Pictures (2007) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Weinstein Company, The (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• West Video (2007) (Russia) (theatrical)

Technicien des effets spéciaux

• Custom Film Effects (opticals and visual effects)
• Post Logic Studios (opticals and visual effects)

Other Companies

• Chapman / Leonard Studio Equipment  cranes
• Chapman / Leonard Studio Equipment  dollies
• EarCandy  sound post-production
• Hip-O Records  soundtrack
• Movie Movers  cast trailers
• Movie Movers  production trailers
• Wilshire Stages, The  ADR recording facility

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Hall9ween (USA) (working title)
Halloween 9 (USA) (working title)
Halloween: Retribution (USA) (working title)
Rob Zombie's Halloween (USA) (complete title)
Untitled Rob Zombie Halloween Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong brutal bloody violence and terror throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity and language.

Durée:

109 min | USA:121 min (unrated version)

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Classification:

UK:18 | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) | Singapore:M18 | USA:R (certificate #43755) | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | Portugal:M/18 | Hong Kong:III | Philippines:R-13 (cut) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:16 | France:-16 | Argentina:16 | Germany:18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Norway:18 | Italy:VM14 | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Taiwan:R-18 | New Zealand:R18

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Altadena, California, USA

Company:

Dimension Films

Anecdotes:

The inclusion of the plot line about Michael Meyers' early days at the mental institution under the care of Sam Loomis is a nod to a plot line added in by John Carpenter for the TV viewing of the original Halloween (1978). As told by Carpenter, when the original film was first sold to TV, they demanded added scenes to replace the edited portions of the murder scenes. So Carpenter recalled 'Donald Pleasance' , the original Sam Loomis to film scenes of him at the hospital taking care of Michael.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Ken Foree climbs out of his truck the wash attendant lifts the hood then goes for a hose. When the camera switches to where Ken's character is walking, you can see in the background the attendant lifts the hood and goes for the hose again.

Guillemet:

[first lines]
Michael Myers - Child: Come on, sweetie pie. Morning, Elvis. You're a pretty Elvis, aren't you? Yes, you are.

Connexions De Film:

Features House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Soundtrack:

Deck the Halls

Rob Zombie tries to give a monster a soul.

On paper, a "Halloween" remake looked interesting. Zombie tries to go back to the character's origin and reinvent him - it's a recent trend in Hollywood ("Batman Begins," "Casino Royale," the upcoming "Incredible Hulk," etc.), so it's not quite surprising that Hollywood greenlit the project and it got the push it received.

But the problem that arises while doing this with "Halloween" is that it comes into conflict with the concept of Michael being purely evil. Although I can understand what Zombie was trying to do by exploring Michael's background, it contradicts the whole point of the original. By providing a reason and displaying a human character on screen, you give the character a soul - and despite what Zombie may claim, this does NOT make Michael scarier. It makes him an average movie serial killer: a guy with a messed up life as a kid who snaps one day and goes on a killing rampage.

Is it scary? No. Gory? Yes. Realistic? At first. And if it were a movie about a serial killer, it would work. But it's not. This is a movie about a monster, a soulless creature; a boogeyman, as per the original film. Monsters aren't scary when we know they're flesh and blood.

Carpenter had a way of framing the action in the original movie. Michael stalks Laurie in her hometown, but we never see any real flesh behind the mask, we never really see him moving around like a normal human being. But we do here. He stands in the middle of an open road, in front of three teenage girls walking home from school, and they all see him. He stands there for a few moments, then trudges away off-screen. We actually see him walk away, instead of just appearing and disappearing as he did in the original film. Which method is scarier? The answer is clear.

Zombie spends 40 minutes or so building up Michael's character before he escapes from the ward. We see him killing animals as a child (and torturing them, too), a stupid subplot with his mom as a stripper and a typical school bully, and a promiscuous sister. The sexual talk is frank and disgusting - the mom's boyfriend (husband?) is talking about how cute her daughter's butt is, and at this point in the film we're not sure whether he might even be the father. It's just shock for shock value. Zombie has a tendency of this - blunt violence and blunt dialogue combined - and in a film like this, it seems cheap and fake and unnecessary. The heavy emphasis placed on the swearing - and I mean this literally (as in, the actors place a noticeable emphasis on the profanity they use) is almost unintentionally funny. Zombie cast his wife in the role of Michael's mother, and she can't act at all.

Donald Pleasence got stuck with the most unfortunate lines from the original film, but we were willing to forgive bad dialogue because of how well-made the film was otherwise. Here, Malcolm McDowell gets the worst of two worlds: he gets to handle an under-characterization with bad, bad, BAD dialogue AND a generally weak film to boot. The sequences with McDowell's version of Loomis are all completely clichéd - Zombie clearly writes his dialogue based on other films' dialogue. The "intimate" scenes at the mental ward between Loomis and Michael are awful. McDowell struggles with typicalities of the genre, such as the Dr. Who Wasted His Own Life By Devoting It To Someone Else's (he explains to Michael that his wife left him and he has no friends because of how involved he became with the case - and the dialogue itself is straight from any cop-vs.-killer flick). The recent film "Zodiac" had a similar theme of men losing their personal lives due to obsession over a murderer, but it was handled better. The whole Loomis character should have been dropped from the remake if all Zombie wanted to do with him was use him as a deus ex machina, by the way.

Overall, this feels like a redneck version of "Halloween," which is going to offend some people, but I can't think of any better way to describe it. It's trashy, vulgar, and silly - and hey, that's fine, if that's Rob Zombie's motif and he wants to make movies pandering towards that sort of audience. I have nothing against it, and I think it may work with some films - I can imagine him making a good re-do of "Natural Born Killers" (although I hope it never, never happens!).

However, when you're remaking an iconic, legendary, incredibly influential horror film - don't cheapen it by "reimagining" it with horror movie clichés and shock-value material. The very worst aspect of this remake is that it simply isn't scary at all - it's a typical slasher flick, a homicidal-man-on-a-rampage flick, which ironically is exactly what Zombie said he wanted to avoid.

The first film was eerie, spooky, and unnerving because Michael's motivations were cloudy and we weren't sure whether Laurie was right or wrong when she said he was the boogeyman. We only knew one thing: he wasn't entirely human.

But ever since that original movie, the filmmakers have attempted to keep expanding upon Michael's history: the second film developed a motivation for his killings (Laurie was his sister), the fourth offered more clues at his background, and now we come full circle with a complete remake of the original film.

Michael's true demonic core - the natural horror element of the series - is stripped bare and all that is left is a disturbed, abnormally tall redneck with greasy hair who hasn't showered in years wearing a silly mask going around killing people because he had an abusive family life as a child. Some things are better left unexplored.