Rob Zombie's Halloween has endured as other horror remakes have been justifiably forgotten.
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RETROSPECTIVE
15 YEARS AGO, ROB ZOMBIE’S BEST SLASHER MOVIE DID THE IMPOSSIBLE
This 2007 horror remake endures while others have been justifiably forgotten.
JOSH BELL
AUG. 31, 2022
REMAKING A CLASSIC MOVIE almost never works. Just ask any of the filmmakers who directed new versions of iconic slashers during the remake boom of the late ’00s and early ’10s, when updates of movies like
Friday the 13th,
A Nightmare on Elm Street, and
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit theaters. None of those movies came close to the enduring acclaim or popularity of their source material, nor did they establish any of their directors as important voices in horror.