Violence in film is a great pleasure.
Yet agony, especially when shared by the audience, is fucking awful.
Rob Zombie is particularly effective at creating some of the most arresting sounds. In a really bad way. The crunching of bone as a knife is yanked through someone's rib cage is unsettling.
Generally we like slasher movies and horror in general to be both fun and compelling, or at least one or the other.
Halloween lacks both of these elements.
It's basically humorless, and this is disappointing. Because Rob Zombie has made some movies that are relatively funny in spite of the suffering that we must endure to get to the end.
For instance, in "The Devil's Rejects" we get to watch as the entire family is shot to shit driving down the highway to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird". This is about fun.
Halloween is just a bunch of murders, really viscous realistic looking murders. Then a bunch of bitches yelling at each other.
100% agony.
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