Cynical Cinema

Alliance Films is releasing a three-disc special edition of Rob Zombie’s remake of the horror classic Hallowe’en on October 7th. While I wasn’t a big fan of the movie the first time around, I know there are a lot of rabid Rob Zombie fanatics out there who may want to check this out. The first two discs are the exact same as the two discs that were released the first time around. The movie, and then the special features disc with deleted scenes, commentary, alternate ending, bloopers, and the featurette “The Many Masks Of Michael Myers”. The third disc is the only thing here that is new, and that is what might make this worthwhile. But only to the most hardcore Rob Zombie fanatic.

You see, the third disc is a four-and-a-half-hour documentary about the making of the movie. It’s fairly interesting, for the first half hour or forty minutes, as Rob Zombie really is an interesting guy with interesting ideas and views. But come on. Four and a half hours? Who, really, would sit through that? Like I said before, only the most rabid, obsessive Rob Zombie fans.