RZ's Halloween received a respectable 6.1 rating for his homage masterpiece to the original. The movie was impactful enough to garner a Part 2.
Halloween (2007) - IMDb
-The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil.
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well as a strong showing from The New York Times: referring to him as the John Cassavetes of splatter. Discussing an actual origin story unlike Carpenters.
the film re-establishes Mr. Zombie’s status as modern American horror’s most eccentric and surprising filmmaker.
Like Mr. Zombie’s first two features, “House of 1,000 Corpses” and
“The Devil’s Rejects,” uses the screenplay’s lively characterizations and Phil Parmet’s chaotic camerawork, Mr. Zombie often seems less an heir to Mr. Carpenter and other 1970s horror filmmakers than a sociologist who happens to make horror movies: the John Cassavetes of splatter.
Mr. Zombie lavishes attention on the killer’s sad origins to the point where his film suggests a boy’s answer to Brian De Palma’s
“Carrie.” Young Michael (Daeg Faerch) is cursed with a frazzled mother, Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie, the director’s wife), who has a newborn daughter and a job as an exotic dancer; a sexually active older sister (Hanna Hall); and a loutish stepfather (overacted by William Forsythe) who taunts the boy.