History YMMV / Halloween2007

** LoveToHate: That said, he does have some fans who see him as LaughablyEvil because of how childish he acts.

** Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, aka "[[Film/StartrekGeneration The Man Who Killed Kirk]]" is up against a maniac in a Captain Kirk mask.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany secured the rights for the Halloween franchise shortly after Film/HalloweenResurrection tanked at the box office and managed to entice Music/RobZombie to come aboard as a director after his success with Film/TheDevilsRejects, giving him carte blanche to rebuild Halloween from the ground up. However, after the workprint only managed a middling response from test audiences (who felt that it took too long for Michael to grow up and get to his slasher roots), Zombie was forced to significantly recut the film and was given funds to shoot an entirely different, more ambiguous ending.
** The original workprint ''did'' find its way online and has developed something of a cult following who prefer that it tells a more cohesive and contained story. It features an vastly different opening section (where the title credits don't roll for almost ten minutes, playing over Michael running away from a parent/teacher conference), spends more time with Loomis in the asylum, makes Michael more sympathetic during his escape (he notably [[PetTheDog doesn't kill]] the kindly guard played by Creator/DannyTrejo), and features an ending where Michael actually ''dies at the end''.

** The original workprint ''did'' find its way online and has developed something of a cult following who prefer that it tells a more cohesive and contained story. It features an vastly different opening section (where the title credits don't roll for almost ten minutes, playing over Michael running away from a parent/teacher conference), spends more time with Loomis in the asylum, makes Michael more sympathetic during his escape (he notably [[KickTheDog doesn't kill]] the kindly guard played by Creator/DannyTrejo), and features an ending where Michael actually ''dies at the end''.

** The original workprint ''did'' find its way online and has developed something of a cult following who prefer that it tells a more cohesive and contained story. It features an vastly different opening section (where the title credits don't roll for almost ten minutes, playing over Michael running away from a parent/teacher conference), spends more time with Loomis in the asylum, and features an ending where Michael actually ''dies at the end''.

* FanDislikedExplanation: Most agreed that giving Michael (a character originaly created to be pure evil) a [[FreudianExcuse tragic past]] took away much of his mystique.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While most horror films generally have a large quantity of {{jerkass}} characters, this film [[UpToEleven ups the ante]] by making practically ''every'' character as violently unlikable as possible. Most of those that aren't besides Laurie, her babysitting charges, Loomis and the Brackett's [[note]] Mr. and Mrs. Strode, Michael's school principal, the cemetery groundskeeper, Ismael, and Mrs. Myers.[[/note]] are either barely seen or quickly killed off. Adding in the cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, the film can be rather painful to watch.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While most horror films generally have a large quantity of {{jerkass}} characters, this film [[UpToEleven ups the ante]] by making practically ''every'' character as violently unlikable as possible. Most of those that aren't besides Laurie, her babysitting charges, Loomis and the Brackett's [[note]] Mr. and Mrs. Strode, Michael's school principal, the cemetery groundskeeper, and Mrs. Myers.[[/note]] are either barely seen or quickly killed off. Adding in the cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, the film can be rather painful to watch.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While most horror films generally have a large quantity of {{jerkass}} characters, this film [[UpToEleven ups the ante]] by making practically ''every'' character as violently unlikable as possible. Most of those that aren't besides Laurie, her babysitting charges, Loomis and the Brackett's [[note]] Mr. and Mrs. Strode, Michael's school principal, the cemetery groundskeeper, and Mrs. Myers.[[/note]] are either barely seen or quickly killed off. Adding in the cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, the film can be rather painful to watch.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/BradDourif, [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Charles Lee Ray himself]] plays Sheriff Brackett.
** That said, many like his portrayal of the Sheriff and think he did a good job in this film and its sequel.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Some millennials or newer fans of the series will sometimes think of this film and its 2009 sequel instead of the 1978 original or the seven other sequels after it. However, since the release of the [[Creator/David Gordon Green]] films, more young people have become familiar with the older films of the series.

** You might feel a ''little'' bit sorry for Judith when she gets upset at her boyfriend mistaking Ronnie for her dad then saying that her real dad was in Heaven. Its also briefly implies that [[EvilCripple Ronnie]] is sexually abusive to her.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In the middle of all the DarkerAndEdgier goings on its kind of nice watching Tommy and Lindsay start to get along, especially after they started out as somewhat brattier than their original versions.

* ''SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments'': In the middle of all the DarkerAndEdgier goings on its kind of nice watching Tommy and Lindsay start to get along, especially after they started out as somewhat brattier than their original versions.

** A problem many had with the last [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater couple]] [[Film/HalloweenResurrection entries]] was how, despite the namesake, they didn’t really attempt to capture the Halloween atmosphere. This movie amends that mistake, between the color correction and how the scenes were shot and lit, it managed to capture that feeling a lot better.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While most horror films generally have a large quantity of {{jerkass}} characters, this film [[UpToEleven ups the ante]] by making practically ''every'' character as violently unlikable as possible. Those that aren't [[note]]Laurie (despite one or two obnoxious moments), Mr. and Mrs. Strode, Tommy Doyle, Lindsey Wallace, Dr. Loomis, Michael's school principal, the cemetery groundskeeper, and Mrs. Myers.[[/note]] are either barely seen or quickly killed off. Adding in the cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, the film can be rather painful to watch.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most Millennials will most likely think of this film than the 1978 orginal or the seven other sequels after it.

** Special mention goes to Deborah Myers, while she herself was a struggling stripper, the fact she came home to find her daughter and second husband dead, her son ''being the cause of it'', and watching the last of her family ([[spoiler: and Laurie as an infant]]) is devastating. Hits it ''big'' when [[spoiler: Michael kills Nurse Wynn when [[TemptingFate she insulted Michael's picture of Laurie and jokingly questioned if she was related to him]]]]. The look on Deborah's face when she sees Michael ''snap at her'' and [[EvilAllAlong having that evil smirk on his face]] and her huge mental breakdown is ''devastating''. It is worse when you see her [[spoiler: later on watching video tapes of how happy her family was before, and proceeds to [[DrivenToSuicide shoot herself]] after hitting the DespairEventHorizon '''hard''']].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While most horror films generally have a large quantity of {{jerkass}} characters, this film [[UpToEleven ups the ante]] by making practically ''every'' character as violently unlikable as possible. Those that aren't [[note]]Laurie (despite one or two obnoxious moments), Mr. and Mrs. Strode, Tommy Doyle, Lindsey Wallace, Dr. Loomis, Michael's school principal, the cemetery groundskeeper,and Mrs. Myers.[[/note]] are either barely seen or quickly killed off. Adding in the cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, the film can be rather painful to watch.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most young people born between 1990-2010 will most likely think of this film than the 1978 orginal or the seven other sequels after it.

* FanDislikedExplanation: Most agreed that giving Michael (a character originaly created to be MadeOfEvil) a tragic past took away much of his mystique.

** LoveToHate: That said, he does have some fans who see him as LaughablyEvil because of how he acts.

** A lot of what Ronnie, Michael's stepfather, says and/or does. The film starts off with him mocking his baby stepdaughter by mimicking her crying, then telling Deborah that Michael's probably going to grow up and "cut his dick and balls off and change his name to Michelle". He's almost cartoonishly unlikeable. The whole character is like someone took the mind of a twelve-year-old playground bully and put in the body of a middle-aged alcoholic wreck.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: One thing people can agree on about the remake is that Michael's mask looks near identical to the original 1978 version, after the sequels to said version were heavily criticized for changing his masks with every subsequent film and looking drastically different in each.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most young people born between 1990-2010 will most likely think of this film than the 1978 orginal or the seven other sequels after it.