Halloween (2007 film)

Halloween is a 2007 American slasher film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. It is a remake of John Carpenter's 1978 horror film of the same name and the ninth installment in the Halloween franchise. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, and William Forsythe, the film follows Michael Myers (Mane), who murdered several people as a ten-year-old child and was institutionalized at Smith's Grove Sanitarium, before breaking out and stalking Laurie Strode (Taylor-Compton) and her friends on Halloween night fifteen years later.

Working from Carpenter's advice to "make [the film] his own",^[5] Zombie chose to develop the film as both an origin story and a remake, allowing for more original content than simply re-filming the same scenes.

Halloween was theatrically released in the United States on August 31, 2007, to generally negative reviews from critics. Despite this, the film was a box office success, grossing $80 million worldwide against its $15 million production budget. A sequel, Halloween II, was released in 2009.

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