Every year we have a tradition in the Forto house where we celebrate the greatest month of the year, October, with scare your socks off, hide under the covers, turn on all the lights, sleep with one eye open, fright fest, movie marathon every night of the month! We call it 31 Days of Horror.
31 Days of Horror: Halloween II
Day 28 Movie: Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (2009)
By far the coolest thing about this movie is the Halloween Hootenanny. It features Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures. These guys rock! In fact they toured with Rob Zombie last year when my wife Michele and I saw the concert at the Fillmore in Denver. The Hootenanny is what everybody would want a halloween party to be including a giant 10 foot tall Pumpkinhead!
While both versions of Zombie’s Halloween were not well received by the critics and most fans, I thought they were very god. It was classic horror and had the unique spin that only Rob Zombie could master.
There is talk that a Halloween 3 is in the works but Rob Zombie is adamant that he will not be a part of it. He said he has done everything he wanted to do with the franchise and is moving on the his next project: The Lords of Salem about a modern day witch tale. Should be interesting.
Interesting Facts:
Rob Zombie originally stated he would never do a sequel to Halloween (2007), until the studio decided to make it. Then he signed on to write and direct, because he didn’t want someone to ruin his vision.
Laurie has a picture of Charles Manson over her bed. Later, after Lynda’s father tries to kill Loomis, it is revealed that the gun was not loaded – just like the gun Manson follower Squeaky Fromme pointed at President Gerald Ford.
This is the first Halloween movie to include Michael clearly walking around without his mask on.
John Carpenter (the Director of the original 1978 Halloween) was offered a cameo in the film by Rob Zombie, but he turned it down. In fact, it is said that Carpenter was not very pleased with Zombie’s version of the story in both films.
Plot: Michael Myers is still at large and no less dangerous than ever. After a failed reunion to reach his baby sister at their old home, Laurie Strode is immediately taken to a hospital to be treated by the wounds that had been afflicted by her brother a few hours ago. However, Michael isn’t too far off and will continue his murdering ‘Halloween’
rampage until he gets his sister all to himself.
What is your favorite scary and/or Halloween movie? I would love to hear from you!
Day 1 Movie: Trick ‘r Treat
Day 2 Movie: The Exorcist
Day 3 Movie: Nosferatu
Day 4 Movie: White Zombie
Day 5 Movie: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Day 6 Movie: Creepshow 2
Day 7 Movie: The House of 1000 Corpses
Day 8 Movie: The Blob
Day 9 Movie: The Devils Rejects
Day 10 Movie: The Shinning
Day 11 Movie: The Omen
Day 12 Movie: The Thing
Day 13 Movie: Embrace of the Vampire
Day 14 Movie: (Stephen King’s) Desperation
Day 15 Movie: Dracula (1931)
Day 16 Movie: The Wolfman (1941)
Day 17 Movie: The Amityville Horror
Day 18 Movie: Frankenstein (1931)
Day 19 Movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Day 20 Movie: Halloween (1978)
Day 21 Movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Day 22 Movie: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Day 23 Movie: ‘Salem’s Lot
Day 24: Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007)
Day 25 Movie: Dracula (1992)
Day 26 Movie: Stephen King’s Needful Things
Day 27 Movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Day 28 Movie: Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
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October 31, 2010 at 6:10 pm
It’s not a Halloween Party without Captain Clegg! That band so rocked the Fillmore – one of the best concerts I’ve been too and definitely the best preshow band out there!
October 31, 2010 at 6:27 pm
They did rock the house and just a warm up for Zombie. Best show I have ever seen in a small venue!