A.D. Skinner
Assistant Director
Being a huge Halloween and Michael Myers fan myself, there is a lot of bad feelings that I have when I look back and see how this series has gone.
Halloween and Halloween II were absolutely perfect, for they created terror and suspence. John Carpenter was a God and knew how to scare the living daylights out of us.
Then came Halloween III - Season of the Witch. Where in the heck did this come from. At no time did this even come close to a sequel to the Michael Myers storyline, and it is just a sore spot for any fan.
Then you have the junk sequels from there.
Halloween IV - The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween V - The Revenge of Michael Myers
Halloween VI - The curse of Michael Myers
They brought in a new mask, made Michael seem not that scary anymore, and added his neice to the mix??? Oh yeah, let us not forget that they actually put him behind bars, though he was broken out by the man in black. Not to mention bringing back Tommy Doyle( OMG, where they grabbing for straws??? )
Halloween H20 would have been the appropriate place to end this story, as Laurie finally gets her revenge and kills the Brother that has been trying to kill her for the past 20 years, though as with any slasher series, we all knew deep down it was not going to be the last we heard of Michael. The only thing wrong with this film, was that it was taken from Haddonfield IL, to California????
Halloween Resurrection - Certainly not the answer we fans were hoping for. Although they returned us to Haddonfield, the blantent misuse of information that was tried to pass to us from H20 to this movie was absolutely absurd. We all saw Michael die and now we are lead to beleive that he avoided the entire incident? And not only that, but his house has become host to a web show???
So now that leads us to Halloween 9. Rob Zombie, saying that he will have a fresh viewpoint in making this film, plans on keeping that which John Carpenter worked so hard in achieving. I for one, as a fan, will give this movie a chance. I hated seeing Michael die, no matter how silly the movies had become. He states that this will not be a remake, but taken us further into Michael's world.
Give it a chance and let us hope for the best. At least that way we can put behind us all the crap that we have had to deal with!