History YMMV / Halloween2007

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: There can be some interpretation that Laurie at least has some kind of crush on Annie the way she always calls her "baby" and reacts like she's just found her lover dead [[spoiler: both times she finds Annie dying from wounds inflicted by Michael]]. Whether or not it's reciprocated or acted upon is left tot he interpretation of the viewer.

** She also spends the rest of the movie topless, but she is covered in the blood and gore of narrowly surviving an encounter with Michael Myers.

* 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.

** Ismael, Annie, and Sheriff Brackett are liked because they're some of the few characters in the remake franchise who aren't complete assholes. Also because of their actors: Brackett is played by Creator/BradDourif (already a horror film legend for his role as [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]]); Annie is played by Creator/DanielleHarris, who played Jamie Lloyd in the fourth and fifth ''Halloween'' movies; as for Ismael, [[SugarWiki/RuleOfSeanConnery well]]... it's Creator/DannyTrejo.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Since the film's contentious reception has become better known, some people are only interested in how horror icons Creator/BradDourif and Creator/DanielleHarris appear as Sheriff Brackett and Annoe and arguably get the most praise out of all the cast members.

* AdaptationDisplacement: A few millennials who weren't familiar with the series associated it with this film and its 2009 sequel instead of the 1978 original or the seven other sequels after it. Already a minor example, it's become almost entirely averted by now due to the release of the Creator/DavidGordonGreen films, which are connected to the original film. Because of that, more young people who weren't aware of the original have since watched and become familiar with it and the other older films of the series.

** Ismael, Annie, and Sheriff Brackett are liked because they're some of the few characters in the remake franchise who aren't complete assholes. Also because of their actors: Brackett is played by Creator/BradDourif (already a horror film legend for his role as [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]]); Annie is played by Creator/DanielleHarris, who played Jamie Lloyd in the fourth and fifth ''Halloween'' movies; and as for Ismael, [[SugarWiki/RuleOfSeanConnery well]]... it's Creator/DannyTrejo.

** Ismael, Annie, and Sheriff Brackett are liked because they're some of the few characters in the remake franchise who aren't complete assholes. Also because of their actors: Annie is played by Creator/DanielleHarris, who played Jamie Lloyd in the fourth and fifth ''Halloween'' movies; Brackett is played by Creator/BradDourif (already a horror film legend for his role as [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]]); as for Ismael, [[SugarWiki/RuleOfSeanConnery well]]... it's Creator/DannyTrejo.

** Ismael, Annie, and Sheriff Brackett are liked because they're some of the few characters in the remake franchise who aren't complete assholes. Annie also gets bonus points for being played by Creator/DanielleHarris, who played Jamie Lloyd in the fourth and fifth movies. Brackett gets some points as well by being played by [[Creator/BradDourif the same guy who plays]] [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]]. As for Ismael, well...it's Creator/DannyTrejo.

* 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 each time.
** A problem many had with the last [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater couple of]] [[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 manages to capture that feeling a lot better.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Nan Vernon's cover of ''Mr. Sandman'' over the closing credits. It's absolutely beautiful and better than the original song.

** Due to how incredibly unlikeable some of the characters are in the film, standouts being Judith, Ronnie, Wesley, and a couple asylum guards in the director's cut, it can be deeply satisfying to see Michael off them.

* RootingForTheEmpire: So many people in Michael's life are so disturbingly unlikable that it's pure CatharsisFactor when Michael kills them all.

* MandelaEffect: Everyone seems to think this film is absolutely chock full of truly hatable characters. This is a common misconception. The only really horrible characters are Ronnie, Wesley, and in the director's cut the rapist orderlies and the nurse who insults Michael's relation to his sister (the rapist orderlies aren't in the theatrical cut, and in that cut the nurse doesn't insult Michael at all and in fact only ''compliments'' his baby sister's cuteness). Judith is semi-hatable but also somewhat sympathetic because she's a victim of the same awful home life Michael is. Literally every other character in the film is either perfectly normal or perfectly likeable. Just like the original Halloween gained a reputation as a gory splatter film despite having almost not blood in it whatsoever simply because the film was so scary at the time, this film only gained a reputation for having an entire cast of godawful characters not because it actually ''is,'' but because the few horrible characters that ''are'' in the film are so extremely detestable that it makes the film ''seem'' a lot more full of awful people than it actually is.

*** This is false. Loomis states that Michael is a product of both internal and external factors, creating a perfect storm to turn him into what he ends up being. He was already naturally deranged before Ronnie, as he's been abusing and killing animals for who knows how long. His abusive family and school life aren't the cause, they simply push him the rest of the way over the edge on which he was already teetering.

* CatharsisFactor: Due to how incredibly unlikeable some of the characters are in the film, standouts being Judith, Ronnie, Wesley, and a couple asylum guards in the director's cut, it can be deeply satisfying to see Michael off them.

* MandelaEffect: Everyone seems to think this film is absolutely chock full of truly hatable characters. This is an absolutely massive, common misconception. The only really horrible characters are Ronnie, Wesley, and in the director's cut the rapist orderlies and the nurse who insults Michael's relation to his sister (the rapist orderlies aren't in the theatrical cut, and in that cut the nurse doesn't insult Michael at all and in fact only ''compliments'' his baby sister's cuteness). Judith is semi-hatable but also somewhat sympathetic because she's a victim of the same awful home life Michael is. Literally every other character in the film is either perfectly normal or perfectly likeable. Just like the original Halloween gained a reputation as a gory splatter film despite having almost not blood in it whatsoever simply because the film was so scary at the time, this film only gained a reputation for having an entire cast of godawful characters not because it actually ''is,'' but because the few horrible characters that ''are'' in the film are so extremely detestable that it makes the film ''seem'' a lot more full of awful people than it actually is.

* 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 Bracketts [[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. Combine that with the incredibly cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, and the film can be rather painful to watch.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Michael's mask shouldn't have been ''that'' usable after being stuck under some floorboards for 17 years. Sure, it realistically was shown as cracked and faded after being there for so long, but, being made out of latex, the constant changes of the seasons would have melted it, hardened it, and/or turned it to dust.
** Also, Loomis shouldn't have been able to get a gun so easily, pointed out by many people.

* AwesomeMusic: Nan Vernon's cover of ''Mr. Sandman'' over the closing credits. It's absolutely beautiful and better than the original song.

** Special mention goes to Deborah Myers. While she herself was a struggling stripper, the fact that she came home to find her oldest daughter and partner 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''']].

* RootingForTheEmpire: Nearly everybody in this film is so disturbingly unlikable that it's pure CatharsisFactor when Michael kills them all.
* TheScrappy: Ronnie is a weird example; he's supposed to be disliked for being an AbusiveParent, but he's ultimately disliked for being a one-dimensional asshole who torments his family ForTheEvulz, the fact that he comes off as more of an overgrown schoolyard bully than an actual abuser, as mentioned in {{Narm}} above, and for giving Michael a FreudianExcuse, despite what made Michael so terrifying in the original movies was that he had no reason for killing.

** Michael's origin basically boils down to "he killed people because he had a very bad childhood, then killed people because he liked it". It wasn't fleshed out much, and as a result they ruined the mystery of his character. Then again, this is supposed to be a completely different and ([[WordOfGod by Zombie's words]]) more "realistic" take on Michael.

* 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. Combine that with the incredibly cynical tone and questionable changes made to Michael's backstory, and the film can be rather painful to watch.

** 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''']].

* AdaptationDisplacement: A few millennials who weren't familiar with the series associated it with this film and its 2009 sequel instead of the 1978 original or the seven other sequels after it. Already a minor example, it's become almost entirely averted by now due to the release of the Creator/DavidGordonGreen films, which were connected to the original film. Because of that, more young people who weren't aware of the original have since watched and become familiar with it and the other older films of the series.

** 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.
** A problem many had with the last [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater couple of]] [[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.
* CatharsisFactor: Due to the sheer amount of assholish characters in the film, standouts being Judith, Ronnie, Wesley, and several of the asylum guards, it can be deeply satisfying to see Michael off them.

** Michael's mask shouldn't have been ''that'' well after being stuck under the floorboards for 17 years. Sure, it realistically was shown as cracked and faded after being there for so long, but, being made out of latex, the constant changes of the seasons would have melted it and/or turned it to dust.

** Joe Grizzly. He's a OneSceneWonder played by Ken Foree who was badass enough to give Michael a small challenge before killing him.
** Ismael, Annie, and Sheriff Brackett are liked because they're among the few characters in the remake franchise who weren't complete assholes. Annie also gets bonus points for being played by Creator/DanielleHarris, who played Jamie Lloyd in the fourth and fifth movies; Brackett gets some points as well by being played by [[Creator/BradDourif the same guy who plays]] [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]]. As for Ismael, well...it's Creator/DannyTrejo.
* FanDislikedExplanation: Most agreed that giving Michael (a character originally created to be pure evil) a [[FreudianExcuse tragic past]] took away much of his mystique.

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

** In the first scene, Michael's stepfather, Ronnie, makes a rather crude 'joke' about how Michael will probably grow up to be transgender - "Prob'ly cut his dick an' balls off an' change his name to Michelle." A year later, Faerch appeared in ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', in which he played a French bully called Michel, which is pronounced the same way as 'Michelle'.

** Regardless of you feel about [[AdaptationExpansion this version of Michael]], there's no denying that his life ''sucked ass.'' Perpetually abused by everybody around him, save for his mother and Ismael, there's no wonder why he wishes death to the people he encounters.
** 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. It's also briefly implies that [[EvilCripple Ronnie]] is sexually abusive to her.
* MoralEventHorizon: Michael crosses it when he brutally kills Ismael Cruz, the only guard who ever showed him any kindness. This was later revealed to have been deliberate; the creators wanted to show just how far gone Michael had become and that he was a monster despite his tragic past.

** As pointed out during the review of the film by WebVideo/{{Phelous}}, the merits of giving Michael an origin and explaining his murderous nature is dubious at best (and has been done [[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers poorly before]]), but it is difficult to take Michael as a child seriously with the tantrum-esque '''"I'M NOT LISTENING!! *SCREECHES LOUDLY*"''' moment, to say nothing of how this can make it difficult to take this version of Michael seriously as an adult killer.
** 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. As a result, he comes off as more of a comedic parody of a HateSink who's amusing to watch.
** One of the biggest issues of the film is that the first 1/3rd of the movie makes Michael both overly sympathetic and annoying (despite his multiple murders), making hard to not picture the whiny kid even when Michael is a violent, hulking monster as an adult.

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

* 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/DavidGordonGreen films, more young people have become familiar with the older films of the series.

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