10 Most Intense Moments From The Halloween Movie Franchise

10. Michael Murders The School Bully: Halloween (2007)

Trading in John Carpenter's cold, detached style for his own redneck trailer trash chic, Rob Zombie's remake of the first Halloween movie was nothing if not intense. And sweary. Focusing heavily on Michael's childhood, the film documents the first recorded kills of Michael Myers's career. Just before his sister, her boyfriend and his stepfather, there was Wesley Rhoades - Haddonfield school bully, and Michael's first ever kill.

And it's here that Zombie makes the Halloween franchise his own. Where Carpenter's movie was restrained - almost bloodless - Zombie has no such inclination. His Michael Myers is angry, messy... and a sadist. Following Wesley into the woods, young Michael (Diego Flinch) ambushes the school bully, smashing him around the mouth with a tree branch and quickly pounding the kid into submission. As a terrified Wesley begs for his life, so we see the earliest glimpse of this Michael's sadistic side.

Many baulked at Zombie's portrayal of Michael Myers as a sneering snot-nosed punk, but the brutality with which little Mike goes at his tormentor is truly horrifying, regardless.