John Carpenter opened his original 1978 movie with a single first-person-perspective shot that shows the young Michael Myers' passage around, into and through his family home, telling viewers in just four minutes as much as they are to learn across any of Carpenter's movies about the masked crazy and his motive for killing his older sister, but in this, director Rob Zombie's 2007 remake, that opening scene is extrapolated into a not uninteresting but probably unnecessary hour of backstory that thoroughly unmasks the masked killer; then, the movie becomes a faithful remake of the 1979 original with Malcolm McDowell effective in Donald Pleasence's role of Doctor Samuel Loomis, the psychiatrist who treats Michael Myers in a sanatorium, becomes close to him, and is the only one convinced, after his break out from the asylum, that Michael is heading back to Haddonfield, Illinois to wreak more destruction.
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