A horror classic, avoid the remake...see this

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2007)

When you watch films like all the horror remakes, Rob Zombie's 2007 take on Halloween is a good example, or the Saw trilogy, you think your watching a 'real' horror film. But your not, your watching a film that's shock and tension is built on cheap scares and an overload of gore and blood. The classic version of Halloween, produced on a budget far under one million dollars (see, kids of today, you don't need mega bucks to create a classic scare flick), changed the face of horror and re-launched the slasher genre in 1978. And the scares were genuine, there's little blood and very infrequent violence, yet it still succeeds in scaring the pants of viewers.
Halloween uses dark, rare images of a killer standing in the background, sometimes you don't even see him at all, but you can "feel" his near, it has shadows ominously gliding across a wall, dark rooms, well-crafted music, a sinister story told and a menacing, relentless villain. My advice to film makers in our day and age is to study Halloween. Horror directors of today don't know anything about the industry. Rob Zombie, who claims to be a devoted horror fan, knows nothing about the genre, he does not know what real scares are.
I give my highest regards to this film, and recommend it to anyone that can see today's generation of horror films are only excuses to make money.