10 Best Slasher Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time

4. Halloween (2007)

John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) was certainly not the first slasher flick to hit our screens. However, it is one of the most important, as Halloween reinvigorated the slasher subgenre and would go onto inspire a new generation of filmmakers in the following decades who would create a host of iconic movies influenced by this masterpiece.

Halloween introduced one of the legendary slasher antagonists in Michael Myers, and itself also became one of the most prominent franchises in horror with a whole host of sequels that ran throughout the following decades.

In 2007, Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses), the industrial heavy metal shock rocker turned music video and horror filmmaker, delivered his fresh reboot on the story and took the franchise back to the very beginning with his remake. Zombie imposed his own unique style into the movie, introducing a trailer trash vibe to Michael's family and creating a three-act narrative in an attempt to add a significant backstory to the killer's childhood.

The film moves from Michael's first childhood kills, through to his time in incarceration with his psychologist Dr Loomis (Malcolm McDowell – A Clockwork Orange). The picture then moves to a final act where a now-adult Michael (Tyler Mane) escapes from the asylum and returns to Haddonfield to kill again.

Zombie’s interpretation certainly split the fickle Halloween fanbase, but the final part, which mirrors and pays respectful homage to the original film, is unquestionably a superb recreation.