Halloween (2007) DVD, 2007

While Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is faithful to the original vision, there are some obvious changes, the most pronounced of these being the substantial focus on Michael Myers's childhood. The film posits Michael (played by a creepily vacant Daeg Faerch) as a troubled child made all the worse by a horrible home life - wonderfully illustrated via William Forsythe's performance as Deborah Myers's boyfriend - and constant abuse at school. Zombie paints Michael's pain with palpable grit and sleaze, but he isn't out to put our culture on the couch - he simply wants to show Michael killing his family. With the exception of Michael's therapy sessions while incarcerated, the film, post-massacre, stays loyal to the original.