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I dare anybody out there to come out and say Zombie made a better Halloween than JC! But, Zombie made more money. Try as you may, the trend of making remakes is in...because now producers have found a cash cow and will milk it till its boobs shrivel and hang down.
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I'll quite happily take that dare. I find the original Halloween to drag. The pacing is definitely not what it could be. Carpenter tries to build tension by moving the plot slowly (very minimal plot with gaping holes when you get right down to it anyways), but I feel like it backfired. The movie gets too slow and my interest wanes. It's a good movie, but I found Zombie's interpretation of it to be better. The somewhat more fluid pacing and the background on Michael make it a far more enjoyable movie to watch for me.
That being said, did it need to be made? No, not really. Halloween is a classic, and icon in the horror genre and stood fine on it's own.
But therein lies the problem. Hollywood is filled with pussies who will not take a risk. Instead of going out on a limb and doing something fresh, they will gladly fund a remake of either a Japanese or American classic horror film. They knew people would go see The Ring because people had heard of Ringu, but never saw it because of either the lack of availability or many peoples' fear of subtitles. They knew people will go see a remake of Halloween because it's Michael Myers. But will people go see some new property with no background whatsoever? Unless it's something like an Eli Roth gorey T&A teen sex flick or some over the top torture-porn like Hostel it becomes a big gamble.
At the same time though, can you blame them? People in general are idiots when it comes to films. A ridiculous, overblown piece of Hollywood crap like Transformers or the Spiderman franchise does amazingly well at the box office, but then something trying to pay homage to a genre and bring something back to the people like Grindhouse tanks. I realize Grindhouse couldn't exactly be called 100% original, but as far as mainstream movie theatres go, it basicallly is. People don't want originality. They want something safe and familliar. Hollywood is more than happy to spoon feed them their regurgitated childhood memories. For $15 a pop no less.