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House of 1,000 Corpses
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House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and is his directorial debut as a filmmaker. It was released in the United States on April 11, 2003 by Lions Gate Films.
Following the standard horror movie structure, the film focuses on four college students traveling throughout rural America who become intrigued by a local legend regarding the mad scientist Dr. Satan. While looking for his site of hanging, they experience car trouble and are taken in by the Fireflys, a large and complicated family that is revealed to be made up of sadistic serial killers.
The film was completed in 2000 but was unable to find a distributor after Universal Pictures rejected the initial cut, believing the film would receive an NC-17 rating (which was ultimately the result). As the film was edited to secure an R rating, it spent several years trying to find a distributor before Lions Gate Films, which was beginning to specialize in releasing horror films, accepted the film.
The film opened on April 11, 2003 without being pre-screened for critics. Those who reviewed it after it opened mostly slammed the film with terrible notices. Frank Schrek of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "lives up to the spirit but not the quality of its inspirations" and is ultimately a "cheesy and ultragory exploitation horror flick" and "strangely devoid of thrills, shocks or horror." Clint Morris of Film Threat slammed the film as "an hour and a half of undecipherable plot" and found the film to be "sickening" overall. James Brundage of popular website Filmcritic wrote that the film was simply "hick after hick, cheap scary image after cheap scary image, lots of southern accents and psychotic murders," and was "too highbrow to be a good cheap horror movie, too lowbrow to be satire, and too boring to bear the value of the ticket."
The film opened in 595 theaters, technically qualifying for limited release, and grossed $3.4 million. The film saw some expansion in later weeks and ultimately grossed $16.8 million worldwide, which was successful based on its $7 million production budget. It was followed in 2005 sequel, The Devil's Rejects.
The film is also available on Blu-Ray, but that release does not contain any bonus material in addition to the movie.
Distributed by: Lions Gate Films
Release date: April 11, 2003
Running time: 88 min.
Language: English
Budget: $7,000,000
Gross revenue: $16,829,545
The film takes place in rural Texas, the date is October 30th, 1977, and four twenty year-olds (Jerry and Denise, and couple Bill and Mary) are driving through the countryside to write a book based on their experiences. They make a brief stop at Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, a gas station that also serves as a side show, detailing the histories of past serial killers. The youths are particularly interested in Dr. Satan, a mad scientist who began performing bizarre and horrible surgeries in hopes of creating a breed of super-humans.
Spaulding gives the kids directions to the Deadwood Tree, the site of Dr. Satan's execution. While driving, they give hitchhiker Baby Firefly a ride until their tire is shot by an unidentified man (later revealed to be Baby's brother, Rufus). Baby and Bill take a short walk to her house and meet the rest of the Firefly family: the Mother; brothers Otis, Tiny, and Rufus; and grandfather Hugo. The rest of the kids arrive at the house and are treated to a series of bizarre Halloween rituals.
When Baby attempts to flirt with Bill during a show Baby puts on, Mary is disgusted and fights with Baby, prompting them to leave the house; however, they are attacked by Tiny and Otis and taken back to the Firefly home. Meanwhile, Denise's father Don is worried when she never arrives at his house and calls the police. Lt. George Wydell and Deputy Steve Nash question Captain Spaulding, who gives them directions to the hanging site. Meanwhile, Otis kills Bill, taxidermies his corpse, and sews his torso to a large fish tail to create a "mermaid;" Jerry is scalped; Denise is violently beaten; and Mary is thrown into a prison cell in the basement where she is descended upon by a group of unidentified maniacal individuals. As Don and Nash go and check out the Firefly's garage, Wydell arrives at the Firefly house and questions Mother Firefly before all three of them are killed.
Mary, Jerry and Denise are then humiliated in a number of different ways, including Denise being forced to kiss her father's skinned remains. They are then taken to the family graveyard, where Jerry and Denise are tied up, tossed into a coffin and lowered into the well below; Mary tries to escape but she is stabbed to death by Baby, while Jerry and Denise are attacked by the disfigured victims living in the well. Denise escapes and finds an underground tomb, lined with corpses and ultimately leading to the torture chamber of Dr. Satan, where Jerry is being subjected to a horrible, grisly experiment.
Dr. Satan's disfigured assistant Earl chases Denise throughout the lair with an axe but is knocked unconscious when the tomb collapses. Denise escapes to the surface and is rescued by Captain Spaulding, only to find that Otis is waiting in the backseat of the car. Denise then reawakens in Dr. Satan's lair, with her own experiment about to begin.
Actor ... Role:
Sid Haig ........ Captain Spaulding
Bill Moseley ........ Otis Driftwood
Sheri Moon Zombie ........ Baby Firefly (as Sheri Moon)
Karen Black ........ Mother Firefly
Chris Hardwick ........ Jerry Goldsmith
Erin Daniels ........ Denise Willis
Jennifer Jostyn ........ Mary Knowles
Rainn Wilson ........ Bill Hudley
Walton Goggins ........ Deputy Steve Naish
Tom Towles ........ Lieutenant George Wydell
Matthew McGrory ........ Tiny Firefly
Robert Allen Mukes ........ Rufus 'R.J.' Firefly Jr. (as Robert Mukes)
Dennis Fimple ........ Grandpa Hugo Firefly
Harrison Young ........ Don Willis
William Bassett ........ Sheriff Drake Huston (as William H. Bassett)
Irwin Keyes ........ Ravelli
Michael J. Pollard ........ Stucky
Chad Bannon ........ Killer Karl
David Reynolds ........ Richard 'Little Dick' Wick
Walter Phelan ........ Dr. Satan / S. Quentin Quale
Jake McKinnon ........ The Professor / Earl Firefly
Irvin Mosley Jr ........ Lewis Dover
Joe Dobbs III ........ Gerry Ober
Gregg Gibbs ........ Dr. Wolfenstein
Ken Johnson ........ Skunk Ape Husband
Judith Drake ........ Skunk Ape Wife
Freddy Waff ........ Mental Patient (uncredited)
Notes:
- The names of the villains were taken from the names of Groucho Marx characters. (Animal Crackers' "Captain Spaulding", A Night at the Opera's "Otis B. Driftwood", Duck Soup's "Rufus T. Firefly" and A Day at the Races' "Hugo Z. Hackenbush", among others.) While this was left as a subtle allusion in the first movie, the sequel The Devil's Rejects brought it out into the open, with the names becoming integral to the plot.
- Karen Black portrayed Mother Firefly in this film, but not the sequel. When Black demanded a higher salary to reprise the role, which Zombie could not afford, Leslie Easterbrook was approached and later cast as her replacement.
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Produced by: Andy Gould
Written by: Rob Zombie
Music by: Rob Zombie and Scott Humphrey
Cinematography: Alex Poppas and Tom Richmond
Editing by: Kathryn Himoff
| Fangoria Chainsaw Awards |
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2004 |
Won |
Chainsaw Award |
Best Supporting Actor
Sid Haig
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Fantasporto |
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2004 |
Won |
International Fantasy Film Award |
Best Special Effects
Wayne Toth
Michael O'Brien
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International Fantasy Film Award |
Best Film
Rob Zombie
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Teen Choice Awards |
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2003 |
Nominated |
Teen Choice Award |
Choice Movie - Horror/Thriller
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The film was originally 105 minutes long, but was edited to 88 minutes in order to receive an R-Rating.
A completely alternate version of the end sequence was filmed, but has yet to be released in any commercial format. Zombie briefly alludes to this version on the director's commentary track of the DVD, and stills from it were used in press releases upon the film's release. The movies are virtually identical up until the costume party sequence; here, Grandpa Hugo is revealed as Dr. Satan. The film then continues on as it does in the theatrical version, up until the point that Denise is buried alive. In this version, the catacombs beneath the cemetery lack any laboratory equipment, and are simply filled with the aimlessly wandering, brain damaged victims of Grandpa Hugo's experiments. They drag Jerry away to a chamber and eat him before a horrified Denise. Zombie's main reasoning for this change is that he felt that twist concerning Hugo and Dr. Satan would be too anticlimatic, and that it would be better to see the real Dr. Satan instead.
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The Devil's Rejects
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The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie. It is the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. The movie is about the family of psychopathic killers from the previous film now on the run.
When Rob Zombie wrote House of 1000 Corpses, he had a "vague idea for a story" about the brother of the sheriff that the Firefly clan killed coming back for revenge. He did this in case the film was successful enough that there would be interest in another film. After Lions Gate Entertainment made back all of their money on the first day of Corpses theatrical release, they wanted Zombie to make another movie and he started to seriously think about a new story. With Rejects, Zombie has said that he wanted to make it "more horrific" and the characters less cartoonish than in Corpses, and that he wanted "to make something that was almost like a violent western. Sort of like a road movie." He has also cited films like The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands as influences on Rejects. When he approached William Forsythe about doing the film, he told the actor that the inspiration for how to portray his character came from actors like Lee Marvin and Robert Shaw. Sheri Moon Zombie does not see the film as a sequel: "It's more like some of the characters from House of 1000 Corpses came on over, and now they're the Devil's Rejects."
Zombie hired Phil Parmet, who had shot the legendary documentary Harlan County USA because he wanted to adopt a hand-held camera/documentary look. Principal photography was emotionally draining for some of the actors. Sheri Moon Zombie remembers a scene she had to do with Forsythe that required her to cry. The scene took two to three hours to film and affected her so much that she did not come into work for two days afterward.
The movie went through the MPAA eight times earning an NC-17 rating every time until the last one. According to Zombie, the censors had a problem with the overall tone of the film, specifically, they did not like the motel scene between Bill Moseley and Priscilla Barnes and so Zombie cut two minutes from it but restored them on the DVD version.
The Devil's Rejects was financially successful, recouping its roughly $7 million budget during its opening weekend, and going on to earn over $16 million.
Robert K. Elder, of the Chicago Tribune, disliked the movie, writing "Despite decades of soaking in bloody classics such as the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Spit On Your Grave, Zombie didn't absorb any of the underlying social tension or heart in those films. He's no collage artist of influences, like Quentin Tarantino, crafting his movie from childhood influences. "Rejects" plays more like a junkyard of homages, strewn together and lost among inept cops, gaping plot holes and buzzard-ready dialog".
Other reviewers, such as prominent critic Roger Ebert, enjoyed the film. Ebert gave the film three out of a possible four stars. He wrote, "There is actually some good writing and acting going on here, if you can step back from the material enough to see it." Later, in his review for the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes Ebert referenced The Devil's Rejects, writing, "I received some appalled feedback when I praised Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, but I admired two things about it: (1) It desired to entertain and not merely to sicken, and (2) its depraved killers were individuals with personalities, histories and motives."
Horror movie website Dreadcentral.com gave the film a five out of five stars, saying, "As each frame passes by, it is apparent how much Rob Zombie has grown as a filmmaker even after just two films", and referred to the performances as "nothing short of amazing."
Rotten Tomatoes garnered mixed reviews gaining a 54% rating. Top critics gave "The Devil's Rejects" a 50% approval rating.
Distributed by: Lions Gate Films,Maple Pictures
Release date: July 22, 2005
Running time: 109 min.
Language: English
Budget: $5,000,000
Gross revenue: $19,390,029
Six months after the events in House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Sheriff John Quincy Wydell and a large posse of State Troopers begin a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for over 70 homicides and disappearances that they have caused over the previous several years. Tiny is missing, Rufus is killed and Mother Firefly is taken into custody. However, two of the most dangerous family members (Otis B. Driftwood and Baby) escape.
The duo seek refuge at a run-down motel, where they torture and murder the five members of Banjo and Sullivan, a traveling country band. They then meet up with Baby's father, Captain Spaulding.
Meanwhile, Wydell slowly begins to lose his sanity, when during his attempt to interrogate Mother Firefly for the whereabouts of her kin, she reveals that she murdered his brother George (an event that occurred in the first film). Later, after having dreams of his brother urging him to avenge him, Wydell stabs Mother Firefly to death.
The surviving Fireflys gather at a whorehouse owned by Captain Spaulding's brother (by adoption), Charlie Altamont, where he offers them shelter from the police. After leaving the whorehouse to purchase some chickens, Charlie is threatened at gunpoint by Wydell to give up the Fireflys. With the help of a pair of amoral bounty hunters known as the "Unholy Two", the sheriff takes the family back to the Firefly house where he delights in torturing them in ways similar to the methods they used on their own victims. He nails Otis's hands to his chair and staples crime scene photographs to Otis' and Baby's stomach, beats and shocks Captain Spaulding with a cattleprod, as well as taunting Baby about the death of her mother.
He lights the house on fire and leaves Otis and Spaulding to burn while taking Baby outside to murder her. Charlie Altamont returns to save the Firefly family, but is brutally axed by Wydell. It is only the last minute intervention of Tiny that saves the Firefly family; the giant returns and snaps Wydell's neck. The Rejects are saved and share a brief tearful reunion. Tiny decides to go back into the burning house to die alone and Otis, Baby, and Spaulding escape in Charlie's car.
The film's final scene has the trio driving into the middle of a police barricade, with no sound heard except Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird. As the tempo of the last portion of the song increases, they grab their guns and go forward in a final blaze of glory, being shot to death by the police.
Actor - Role:
Sid Haig - Captain Spaulding
Bill Moseley - Otis B. Driftwood
Sheri Moon Zombie - Baby Firefly
Tyler Mane - Rufus
William Forsythe - Sheriff John Quincey Wydell Ken Foree - Charlie Altamont
Matthew McGrory - Tiny Firefly
Leslie Easterbrook - Mother Firefly
Dave Sheridan - Officer Ray Dobson
E. G. Daily - Candy
Michael Berryman - Clevon
Danny Trejo - Rondo
Diamond Dallas Page - Billy Ray Snapper
Brian Posehn - Jimmy
Kate Norby - Wendy Banjo
Priscilla Barnes - Gloria Sullivan
Lew Temple - Adam Banjo
Geoffrey Lewis - Roy Sullivan
Tom Towles - George Wydell
P. J. Soles - Susan
Deborah Van Valkenburgh - Casey
Ginger Lynn Allen - Fanny
Chris Ellis - Coggs
Mary Woronov - Abbie
Daniel Roebuck - Morris Green
Duane Whitaker - Dr. Bankhead
Glenn Taranto - Anchorman
Steve Railsback - Sheriff Ken Dwyer (uncredited)
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Produced by: Rob Zombie, Mike Elliott, Michael Ohoven
Written by: Rob Zombie
Music by: Tyler Bates, Terry Reid, Rob Zombie
Cinematography: Phil Parmet
Editing by: Glenn W. Garland
Spike TV Scream Awards:
- Won: Best Horror Film
- Won: Most Vile Villain (for the Firefly Clan)
- Nominated: The Ultimate Scream
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards:
- Won: Killer Movie
- Won: Relationship from Hell (for Otis B. Driftwood and Baby Firefly)
- Nominated: Best Butcher (Villain) (Sid Haig)
# 7 on Bravo TV's 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments
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Werewolf Women of the SS (Grindhouse)
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Rob Zombie's contribution, Werewolf Women of the SS, featured Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu, Udo Kier as Franz Hess, the commandant of Death Camp 13, Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Sybil Danning as SS officers/sisters Eva and Gretchen Krupp (The She-Devils of Belzac), along with wrestlers Andrew Martin and Vladimir Kozlov, and Olja Hrustic, Meriah Nelson, and Lorielle New as the Werewolf Women.
According to Zombie, "Basically, I had two ideas. It was either going to be a Nazi movie or a women-in-prison film, and I went with the Nazis. There's all those movies like Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS; Fräulein Devil; and Love Camp 7—I've always found that to be the most bizarre genre." Zombie is also quoted as saying "I was getting very conceptual in my own mind with it. A lot of times these movies would be made like, 'Well, you know, I've got a whole bunch of Nazi uniforms, but I got this Chinese set too. We'll put 'em together!' They start jamming things in there, so I took that approach."
On December 18, 2007, Zombie posted an entry on his MySpace page, asking if people would want to see a feature-length version of Werewolf Women of the SS.
Actor - Role:
Nicolas Cage - Dr. Fu Manchu
Udo Kier - Commandant Franz Hess
Sheri Moon Zombie - Eva Krupp
Tom Towles - Lt. Boorman
Sybil Danning - Gretchen Krupp
Bill Moseley - Dr. Heinrich von Strasser
Andrew Martin - Nazi Boxer #1
Oleg Prudius - Nazi Boxer #2
Olja Hrustic - Werewolf Woman #1
Meriah Nelson - Werewolf Woman #2
Lorielle New - Werewolf Woman #3
Kelly Ryan - Werewolf Woman #4
Michael Deak - Gun-Wielding Werewolf
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Halloween
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Halloween is a 2007 remake of the 1978 slasher film of the same name. The film was written, produced, and directed by Rob Zombie. The film stars Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Sam Loomis, Tyler Mane as the adult Michael Myers, and Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode; Daeg Faerch portrays a ten year old Michael Myers. Rob Zombie's "reimagining" follows the premise of Carpenter's original, with Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode and her friends on Halloween night.
Zombie's film goes deeper into the character's psyche, trying to answer the question of what drove him to kill people, whereas in Carpenter's original film Michael did not have an explicit reason for killing.
Working from Carpenter's advice to "make [the film] his own", Zombie chose to develop the film as both a prequel and a remake, allowing for more original content than simply refilming the same scenes. Despite mostly negative reviews, the film, which cost $15 million to make, went on to gross $78.3 million worldwide.
On June 4, 2006, Dimension announced that Rob Zombie, director of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, would be creating the next installment in the Halloween franchise. The plan was for Zombie to hold many positions in the production; he would write, direct, produce, and serve as music supervisor. Bob Weinstein approached Rob Zombie about making the film, and Zombie, who was a fan of the original Halloween, and friend of John Carpenter, jumped at the chance to make a Halloween film for Dimension Studios. Before Dimension went public with the news, Zombie felt obligated to inform John Carpenter, out of respect, of the plans to remake his film. Carpenter's request was for Zombie to "make it his own". During a June 16, 2006 interview, Rob Zombie announced that his film would combine the elements of prequel and remake with the original concept. Zombie insisted that there would be considerable original content in the new film, as opposed to mere rehashed material.
His intention is to reinvent Michael Myers, because, in his opinion, the character, along with Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Pinhead, has become more familiar to audiences, and as a result, less scary. The idea behind the new film was to delve deeper into Michael Myers' back story. A deeper back story would add "new life" to the character, as Zombie put it. Michael's mask will be given its own story, to provide an explanation as to why he wears it, instead of having the character simply steal a random mask from a hardware store, as in the original film. Zombie explained that he wanted Michael to be truer to what a psychopath really is, and wanted the mask to be a way for Michael to hide. He wants the young Michael to have charisma, which would be projected onto the adult Michael. Zombie has decided that Michael's motives for returning to Haddonfield should be more ambiguous, i.e., "was he trying to kill Laurie, or just find her because he loves her?"
Moreover, Michael would not be able to drive in the new film, unlike his 1978 counterpart who stole Loomis' car so that he could drive back to Haddonfield. Zombie also wants the Dr. Loomis character to be more intertwined with that of Michael Myers; Zombie said that the character's role in the original was "showing up merely to say something dramatic". On December 22, 2006, Malcolm McDowell was announced to be playing Dr. Loomis. McDowell stated that he wants a tremendous ego in Loomis, who is out to get a new book from the ordeal. Although Zombie has added more history to the Michael Myers character, hence creating more original content for the film, he chose to keep the character's trademark mask and Carpenter's theme song intact for his version (despite an apparent misinterpretation in an interview suggesting the theme would be ditched).
Production officially began on January 29, 2007. Shortly before production began, Zombie reported that he had seen the first production of Michael's signature mask. Zombie commented, "It looks perfect, exactly like the original. Not since 1978 has The Shape looked so good".
Filming occurred in the same neighborhood that Carpenter used for the original Halloween. A contest was held for a walk on role in the next Halloween film (at the time Halloween 9 ), many people entered, but in the end Heather Bowen won the privilege.
Approximately 4 days before the release of the film theatrically, a workprint version of the film appeared online and was circulated around various BitTorrent sites.
The film was released on DVD on December 18, 2007 in the US. Both the theatrical and an unrated director's cut were released as two-disc special editions containing identical bonus features. The film was released on DVD in the UK on April 28, 2008 known as the "Uncut" edition.
In June 2008, it was announced that Dimension Extreme will release a Three-Disc Collector's Edition of Halloween. The set will include the same bonus features as the previous unrated edtion, but it will also include Rob Zombie's 4-and-a-half hour "making of" documentary similar to the 30 Days in Hell making of Zombie's The Devil's Rejects. The 3-disc set will be released on October 21, 2008.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, 26 percent of critics gave the film positive feedback (based on 96 reviews; 25 "fresh", 71 "rotten"). On Metacritic, the film has a score of 47 out of 100, based on 18 reviews.
Bill Gibron of PopMatters gave the film a 9 out of 10 and said the film was "brilliant" and "a stroke of slice and dice genius." James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said "Although it's not saying much, this is director Rob Zombie's most impressive outing behind the camera."
The film broke box-office records for the Labor Day weekend. It pulled in USD$31 million dollars over the four-day holiday weekend, surpassing the record set in 2005 by Transporter 2 of $20.1 million dollars, making it the most successful Labor Day weekend opening in history. Furthermore, it surpassed the record set in 1999 by The Sixth Sense of $29 million dollars (in its fifth weekend), making it the highest grossing film over the Labor Day weekend ever. Despite the film's opening weekend success, Bob Weinstein told Reuters that he doubts there would be another Halloween film, stating "I never say never... but it would have to be something very, very different".
In total, Halloween grossed $78,305,689 worldwide ($58,272,029 domestic; $20,033,660 overseas), making it the highest grossing entry in the franchise to date (not adjusting the grosses of earlier films for inflation).
Halloween won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Film of 2007. The film drew 550 votes, the most ever in the history of the award. The movie was the 44th highest grossing movie of 2007, and the years 8th highest R-rated earner. As of July 2008 it stands as the 836th highest grossing film in domestic Box-Office history.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Dimension Films (USA); Alliance Films (Canada); Paramount Pictures (UK)
Release date: August 31, 2007
Running time: 109 min.
Language: English
Budget: $15,000,000
Gross revenue: $78,301,528
On Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, having already shown signs of psychopathic tendencies, ten year old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) murders his sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), her boyfriend Steve (Adam Weisman), his mother’s boyfriend Ronnie (William Forsythe), and a school bully (Daryl Sabara). After the longest trial in the state’s history, Michael is found guilty of first degree murder and sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of child psychologist Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell). Michael initially cooperates with Dr. Loomis, claiming no memory of the killings; his mother, Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), visits him regularly. After a year, Michael becomes fixated on his papier-mâché masks, closing himself off from everyone, even his mother. When Michael kills a nurse (Sybil Danning) during one of her visits, Deborah can no longer handle the situation and commits suicide. For the next fifteen years, Michael (Tyler Mane) continues making his masks and not speaking to anyone. Dr. Loomis, having continued to treat Michael over the years, attempts to move on with his life and closes Michael’s case. Later, while being prepared for transfer to maximum security, Michael escapes Smith’s Grove, killing the sanitarium guards and a truck driver (Ken Foree) for his clothes, and heads to Haddonfield. On Halloween, Michael arrives at his old home, now abandoned, and finds a kitchen knife and Halloween mask he stored under the floorboards the night he killed his sister.
The story shifts to Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), and her friends Annie Brackett (Danielle Harris) and Lynda Van Der Klok (Kristina Klebe) on Halloween. Throughout the day, Laurie witnesses Michael watching her from a distance. That night, she heads to the Doyle residence to watch their son Tommy (Skyler Gisondo). Meanwhile, Lynda meets with her boyfriend Bob (Nick Mennell) at Michael's childhood home. Michael appears, murders them, and then heads to the Strode home, where he murders Laurie's parents. Having been alerted to Michael's escape, Dr. Loomis comes to Haddonfield looking for Michael. After obtaining a handgun, Loomis attempts to warn Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif) that Michael has returned to Haddonfield. Brackett and Dr. Loomis head to the Strode home, with Brackett explaining along the way that Laurie is actually Michael Myers' baby sister.
Meanwhile, Annie convinces Laurie to babysit Lindsey Wallace (Jenny Gregg Stewart), a girl Annie is supposed to be watching, long enough so she can have sex with her boyfriend Paul (Max Van Ville). Annie and Paul return to the Wallace home; during sex, Michael murders Paul and attacks. Bringing Lindsey home, Laurie finds Annie on the floor, bloodied but alive, and calls 911. She is attacked by Michael, who chases her back to the Doyle home. Sheriff Brackett and Loomis hear the 911 call and head to the Wallace residence. Michael kidnaps Laurie, and takes her back to his home. Michael approaches Laurie and tries to show her that she is his younger sister. Unable to understand, Laurie grabs Michael's knife and stabs him before escaping the house; Michael chases her, but is repeatedly shot by Dr. Loomis. Laurie and Loomis are just about to leave when Michael grabs Laurie and heads back to the house. Loomis intervenes, but Michael attacks him by squeezing Loomis's skull with his hands. Laurie takes Loomis' gun and runs upstairs; she is chased by Michael, who, after cornering her on a balcony, charges her head-on and knocks both of them over the railing. Laurie finds herself on top of a bleeding Michael. Aiming Loomis' gun at his face, she repeatedly pulls the trigger until the gun finally goes off just as Michael's hand grips Laurie's wrist.
Actor - Role:
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
Written by: Rob Zombie
2007 Screenplay: Rob Zombie
1978 Screenplay:John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Music by: Tyler Bates
Cinematography by: Phil Parmet
Editing by: Glenn Garland
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Halloween II
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is an animated comedy that also combines elements of a horror and thriller film. It is based upon the comic book series created by Rob Zombie that follows the character of El Superbeasto and his sexy sidekick and sister, Suzi-X, voiced by Sheri Moon. "It's a beautiful-looking movie," Zombie told the Kevin & Bean radio show in Los Angeles, "All these animators from studios like Disney came to work on it, and [they're thrilled because] they get to work on something filthy. It's probably rated XXX now, but we'll have to cut it back to an R."
Work began on The Haunted World of El Superbeasto in 2006 and a release date was later scheduled for May 2007, but the film has yet to be completed. In an interview conducted on July 20, 2007 by shocktillyoudrop.com, Zombie explained that, "Nothing really much [is happening]." During that time, the film was still being animated, however, Zombie then began work on Halloween. He informed the animators that he had "to walk away because I can't split my time between two things". Zombie noted that work on The Haunted World of El Superbeasto "started when I was on Rejects and it's now just sitting on a shelf waiting for me to finish Halloween". As of August, 2007 a first cut of the film was viewed by Zombie in which he said it was "awesome". He also referred to it as "crazy shit". In a November 2007 interview with bloody-disgusting.com, Zombie announced that the film was "almost finished". He went on to say that, although he's currently on tour until February, "we will finally finish the music on Superbeasto and it'll be done" afterwards. However, a release date is yet to be set.
One artist who did some work on the film said in February 2008 that "the final product is falling a bit short of what it was supposed to be", adding "I guess that's what happens when the studio shuts things down way too early and sends everything overseas before it's ready in order to concentrate on sure-fire winners like Everybody's Hero [sic]..."
Released: On-Demand and on Pay-Per-View September 7, 2009. It then hit theaters for a limited run on September 12th before heading to DVD and Blu-ray on September 22nd.
Distributed by: IDT Entertainment
Language: English
The film follows the adventures of El Superbeasto (Tom Papa), a washed-up Mexican luchador, and his sultry sidekick and sister Suzi-X (Sheri Moon Zombie) as they confront an evil villain by the name of Dr. Satan (Paul Giamatti). The adventure, set in the mythic world of Monsterland, also has a character named Murray the robot (Brian Posehn).
Actor - Role:
Paul Giamatti - Dr. Satan
Geoffrey Lewis - Lenny
Sheri Moon - Suzi-X
Tom Papa - El Superbeasto
Rob Paulsen - El Gato Col. Hans Wolfburger
Brian Posehn - Murray
Daniel Roebuck - Morris Green
Danny Trejo - Rico
Tom Kenny - Otto
Debra Wilson - Delores
Rosario Dawson - Velvet Von Black
Harland Williams - Gerard the Exterminator
Kevin Richardson - Cthulu
Charlie Adler - Krongarr
Joe Alaskey - Newscaster
John DiMaggio - Burt the Spurt
Jess Harnell - Uncle Carl
Sid Haig - Captain Spaulding
Bill Moseley - Otis
Ken Foree - Luke St. Luke
Tura Satana - Varla
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Produced by: Tom Klein, Rob Zombie
Written by: Rob Zombie
Screenplay: Mr. Lawrence, Tom Papa
Story: Rob Zombie
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