Apparently the fears are true. The script for Halloween has been read and the review has come out blasting it with regards the Halloween mythos. The reviewer does get worried that he's reading a fake script, but then all the new characters that Rob Zombie has just announced are in it, so there's still maybe a chance, or perhaps it's an extremely early draft. Whichever, it looks bad.

...what I really find myself disappointed with is the lack of understanding Zombie is showing on why Michael Myers works. In the original film, Myers was bigger than a serial killer or a psychopath. He was evil. Unemotional. Uncaring. He was the boogeyman...

When you explain away Michael, giving him modern day serial killer hellish upbringing, you take away his power. He no longer represents a myth bigger than a person, he doesn't represent death incarnate. He's just an average psycho in a mask. There's nothing special to him anymore.

That seems to be the biggest flaw going through the whole review that Quint has over at AICN through Obsessed with Film. The character is laid bare, we spend all our time with him, basically the subtlety is gone and replaced with Myers being laid bare, tracking his whole life and showing you every detail.

This is something I'm noticing with reading Hannibal Rising, seeing the end monster is far scarier than being shown how he grew up, it reminds you he's human. Yet the best monsters always work as appearing something more than human, or less than. So a look to the founding of the character doesn't really work, especially when you are shown everything.

I was worried that Zombie's slasher style wouldn't work with John Carpenter's Halloween, and from this early report it looks like I might be right. That said there'll be plenty of people who haven't seen the original to lap it up.

There's no real spoilers in the story, so feel free to head over there and read it, then come back and tell us what you think. Is it ruined?