Every Rob Zombie Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The reason Halloween gets a bad rep is because of Zombie's decision to give Michael Myers a backstory. But here's the thing - if you separate this film from the rest of the franchise and just look at it like a stand-alone slasher, it's actually a very well-written origin story. Sure, Myers never needed a backstory, and it does kill the big guy's mystery a touch, but from a filmmaking standpoint it's actually well done.

On top of that, the second half of the film, when it goes full-slasher, is absolutely inspired. Keeping the same slow, menacing Myers fans know and love, but adding in buckets more gore, Zombie crafts a solid slasher flick by honouring the original series and putting his own twisted spin on the proceedings.

Halloween also offers up the first appearance of a perfectly-cast Malcolm McDowell as Samuel Loomis, and creates enough dread and fear in the last act to fill a sub-par slasher. For the film, Zombie was reportedly told by John Carpenter to "make it his own," and though you may not like the results, you can't exactly called Zombie's vision unoriginal.