I don't know if the Saw writers are the correct people to do this, based on how the Saw movies are. What these folks don't get, what Rob Zombie didn't get, is that what made Halloween so scary and so chilling and what turned Michael Myers into the first of the bigger slasher icons was the fact that you didn't know him. He wasn't even known as Michael Myers in the credits, but as The Shape. All you ever saw of him was a 4 second shot of his face after he kills Judah and you don't see his face again until the end when Laurie aka Jamie Lee Curtis knocks his mask off for a few seconds.
There was no stripper mom, no bullies in school, no absent sister who would rather fuck her boyfriend than take him trick or treating, no doctor Loomis more interested in selling books or going on television, no prison guards flinging female ejaculate into his face.
You didn't know Michael Myers, what he was, who he is, why he did what he did. And that was terrifying. The movie was scary not because he could stab someone with enough force to completely cave in their sternum and have gallons of blood everywhere. What was scary was this man in a white mask looking at you in your backyard and then disappearing. To see your door open when you know you closed it, to hear a potted plant break at night, to hear your dog barking. And then finally, the slow chase. He didn't run, he didn't talk, he just came. Why was he after Laurie Strode? Why did he kill his sister?Why didn't he kill Tommy? Or those bullies who broke his pumpkin?
I'm excited to see what happens. I hope they shitcan the entire Zombie series and come out with something new. But who knows. They'll probably turn Michael into some pervert pedophile who is into torture porn or something. I mean where would the movie start from? I even wouldn't mind bringing Josh Hartnett back to have him finish some continuity. I don't know what exists and what doesn't exist in the continuity anymore.
One thing I'm excited for, Trick or Treat Studios took their H2 clean mask out of production last year because of this movie. Here is hoping they are going to give us a new prototype of the H1 Myers mask based on the Shatner look. Their H2 Warlock version was nice, but everyone wants them to make a high quality H1 mask.
