http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/saw-writers-hired-tackle-new-771891



Saw V - VII writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have been hired by Malek Akkad to take a crack at Halloween, whose last installment -- Rob Zombie's 2009 flop, Halloween II -- left a bad taste in critics', audiences', and fans' mouths.

It's been six years since the last Halloween movie, eight years since the last "okay-ish" Halloween movie (2007's hit-and-miss, mostly miss, Halloween remake), 13 years since the last original series Halloween movie (2002's ironically franchise-killing Halloween: Resurrection), and 17 years since the last truly good Halloween movie (Halloween H20), so where do you go from here?

It is confirmed:

No connection to Rob Zombie
Not in 3D as initially planned back when Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer were involved (2009-2010)
Not a remake or reboot

The buzzword being thrown around is "recalibration." I have three guesses as to what this will entail:

1. A direct sequel to the original(s) (Texas Chainsaw 3D, Superman Returns)
2. A standalone or "soft reboot-ish" (Halloween 4. H20)
3. Just another fancy word for remake

I am excited for this regardless of who writes it; can't be worse than Rob Zombie (especially Halloween II).  :P I'm not so sure about these writers, but they did script doctor Pacific Rim, so that gives me some confidence. Even at its worst, it'll still be better than Rob Zombie.

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Totally unnecessary... just put Carpenter's original in the DVD player, sit back and enjoy.

H20 wasn't a soft reboot. It was a continuation from Halloween II, while ignoring the events in Halloween 4 through 6. (The third film, of course, was Season Of The Witch)  and going by the way of last year's turkey - Texas Chainsaw- where the timeline doesn't add up and the audience is treated like a bunch of dolts...I don't think that's the way to go.

All I know is...good luck to Melton and Dunstan. They will need it. And please, please pretty please none of that Collector BS. Or Piranha 3DD for that matter. In any case, I expect the Feast guys to bring in the red stuff in many buckets...

If people stopped watching this crap... they'd stop making this crap. I wouldn't watch it... unless it came free as a pirate. That's all the film deserves. I hope they lose... and I hope they lose badly.

Whoohoo! Suspense filled horror awaits.

I've seen the first one and bits of the others. In my opinion, it's films like this and Nightmare on Elm Street that helped kill off the horror genre back in the 90s. Led to the successes of SCREAM et al, where horror was more like comedy.

At one point, I believed horror was dead.

I was proven wrong though as quality horror has started being produced again... I just wish shit like this would stop clinging to the coattails.

I've seen all of John Carpenter films. Back in 2004 I went through some trouble trying to find The Resurrection of Broncho Billy. So, I am a fan. But...

I never understood why Halloween was hailed as such a great movie. I've always thought the movie was pretty weak, and I've watched it over and over. It seems amature in parts.

Still the movie has its place in history and that can't be denied.

Something about the original that just sucks me in...

The moment those bright orange credits roll, you approach the distant lit pumpkin...

The theme...

The opening shot...

Man, could go on for ever.

Halloween, for me, is the greatest horror movie ever made.

I will say it does have flaws. All films do. But they are small, and don't prevent me from keeping my eyes on the screen. The way it's shot is so captivating, atmospheric.

The villain is rarely seen, but he's fricking scary. The heroine and her dumbass friends spout crap, deadpan delivery, but they're likeable. Loomis, chasing Myers, fills us in on exposition everywhere he goes, but he's Donald fuckin' Pleasance! His delivery of those crusty lines are golden.

You have the so-called haunted Myers house. A town where a child killer that's not just a child-killer has grown up and has come home, escaped from a mental hospital... It has every ingredient of SCARY. This was escalated in Halloween II, maybe could of made more of it, but...

I just like the idea a guy escapes a nut house, goes to his hometown with this malevolent idea of recreating what he did when he was six years old and reliving the incident over and over again. That's his reason. How do you stop that? You can't reason with it, you can't bargain with it, you can't do anything but either kill it or be killed.

But, Halloween, yeah I can see why people don't like it, but for me it's the greatest horror film ever made.
Whenever I stick it on just to see the opening credits, or a certain scene, the film just sucks me in and I end up watching the fucking whole thing.

Mind you, the point where Loomis has been hiding out in the bushes for hours, and finally sees the sanitarium car that Myers escaped with is only parked within eyeshot always makes me groan. Haha!

The follow-ups never really bothered to explore that side of Myers, they chose to examine him and make the "bogeyman/boogieman" explainable, or they gave him a weak reason to chase a certain individual.

Dude needs to be in constant darkness, maybe shimmers of his legendary mask, but his kills should be more aligned with Halloween, the season, like the original. He's a trickster. He gets off on not just killing random people, but how they fall into his traps.