I'm tired and highly bored, having had to sit through almost two hours of pretentious, predictable and overly-dramatic hyperbolic film. Considering how over the top that sentence was, symbolises my feelings about this film. The mediocre actors suffer from a poor script, which could be written by a Hollywood book of clichés, the scares (though minimal) were obvious to the point of semi-plagiarism. Indeed, the one positive element was the hilarity which the exaggerated film brought to a late night's entertainment. Some parts of the film deserve merit. It was in the breakdown of the stereotypical horror elements in which Zombie creates an effective atmosphere, but far too often, he falls into the typical traps which standard horrors have done before him. Kill moments - mediocre at best. Not horrific enough to be considered 'Saw'-worthy (not that's a good thing) and not ridiculous enough to be considered Friday the 13th II's pure fantasy. No intelligent elements which 'Scream' brought to the screen. Attempts to multi-dimensionalise characters was laughable, and though efforts were made with our killer, I felt such little pathos with any single member of the cast, that I would rather have been watching Halloween: Recurrection. At least that I could have laughed and not felt bad. I mean, Jesus, some people actually liked this piece of tripe.
Review of Halloween
