Halloween Aug 2007

BIG spoilers here because I just can't seem to type enough about this movie lol.
I loved this version so much better than the original from the 70s and I promise that the fact that I am a White Zombie metal music fan and that Rob Zombie directed this remake is purely coincidental.
This remake starts with Micheal as a 10 year old boy played by Daeg Faerch and goes further than the original into showing what may have been the cause of this child becoming so completely warped that he became such a hollow and emotionless killer. His mother Debbie Myers (played by Sheri Moon Zombie - Rob's wife) is a stripper and the poor boy gets tormented by the guys at school who show him his mother's promotional posters for her show and make snide comments on the things they'd like to do to her. His mother's boyfriend is a drunken cripple whose mouth hurts worse then any kind of beating a kid could receive. His sister would rather screw her boyfriend upstairs then spend any kind of time with Micheal even while he begs for someone to take him trick or treating. He has a baby sister who becomes Laurie Strode later in the movie after she is adopted.
When Micheal finally snaps it starts afterschool on halloween when he beats to death the worst of his school yard tormenters with a large sturdy tree limb. When he gets home he seems to be fine until he mother needs to leave for work. He begs her not to go of course she does. His stepfather starts right in with the drunken insults. He pleads with his sister to take him trick or treating and gets told to go himself. He kills his stepfather quite gruesomely in his sleep, kills his sister's boyfriend when he comes down to get something to eat then goes up and takes care of his older sister. His mom comes home to find Micheal on the steps outside holding his baby sister telling her everything is ok now he took care of all.
Micheal goes to an institution where Dr. Loomis, who is played by Malcolm Mcdowel tries to help him but after his mother commits suicide while watching home videos of Micheal when he was a happy toddler he falls into himself and never speaks another word.
The adult 27 year old Micheal who breaks out of the facility to find his baby sister. (played by Tyler Mane). In this version he seeks his sister for reuniting. She is in no danger (even though everyone else is) at first until she stabs him in what she understandably thinks is self defense while he is trying to show her a picture of them cuddling in her infancy, trying to make her understand who he is. After she drives the knife in though..well all deals are off and the nasty chase begins.
The movie leaves one feeling sad for the childhood that he should have had..things could have been so much different if his family wasn't such a bunch of white trashed screw ups and leaves one feeling pity and empathy for the monster. A typical ploy by hollywood, like Dracula and Frankenstein and phantom of the opera.