Halloween (2007)
Dimension Films | Release Date: August 31, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Zombie delivers a scary horror movie immediately recognizable as his own -- something that will come as a welcome relief to fans who've diligently sat through seven "Halloween" sequels in hopes of one day reliving the original's terrifying magic. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyNathan Lee
Horrific as it is, Halloween isn’t so much a horror film as a biopic, and a superb one at that. Read full review
75
PremierePaul Semel
Halloween is a real, classic-style horror movie, not an exercise in gross special effects. Oh, and for those who’ve missed Carpenter’s classic, this will scare the candy corn out of you, but the original is still champion. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
This Myers is more problem child than bogeyman. Read full review
60
Film ThreatMark Bell
As it stands, he made a noble attempt, and it could've been a Hell of a lot worse, but it's not as great a film as its potential hints at. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
As usual, Zombie has added an element of camp fun to the proceedings with his clever casting of B-movie icons in small roles, including Dee Wallace, Brad Dourif, Danny Trejo and Sid Haig. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is not a good movie but, considering what Halloween has evolved into over the course of seven sequels, it's perhaps better than it has a right to be. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesTasha Robinson
It's a more polished, high-fidelity version of a story that's played out on screen many times since 1978, but once Zombie runs out of subtext, he's right back to the same old slasher text: "Blood. Guts. The end." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Filmgoers looking for copious amounts of mindless violence won't be disappointed. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
The new Halloween has sympathy for the Devil, but not enough. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubSteven Hyden
This latest unsuccessful stab at Carpenter's masterwork just proves that the original Halloween is as unbeatable as its masked leading man. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Zombie continues to have a true, unflinching artist's eye for the sublimely horrific (a woodsy murder sequence is pregnant with disturbing, painterly compositions), that eye is wasted here on an unnecessarily moribund history of sociopathy as it relates to Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
There is just no tension built prior to the murders. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
Like kudzu vine, killer bees and herpes, we may never be rid of it. Read full review
30
VarietyDennis Harvey
Leaves nothing to the imagination: Michael Myers is always right there in plain sight, committing mayhem sans suspenseful buildup or mystique. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The set-up is tediously slow, while the later murders are packed so tightly it's like watching a blender on high speed. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTom Russo
As with Zombie's two previous schlock horror features, "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," the atmosphere here isn't so much tense and jolting as unnervingly weird and gory, but it's effective. Read full review
20
Washington PostRichard Harrington
A film that contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the booker for "Jerry Springer" wrote it (Zombie did). Read full review
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