Writer-director Rob Zombie piles on the sadism to little effect.
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
They can put all the numbers they want after the titles of these horror franchises, but a better name for "Halloween II" might be "One More Halloween."
In writer-director Rob Zombie's pile-it-on ethos, murder scenes that already incite déjà vu now feel as if they contain one more scream, one more angry downswing of the knife, one more pulpy stomp on a head, one more pounding of a naked woman's face against a mirror and one more lingering shot of carnage.
Zombie's follow-up to his own 2007 reboot of the aging slasher series -- which now follows massacre survivor Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) through an all-too-brief recovery before you know who returns -- is an unshackling of sorts for this tedious sadism purveyor who raised a few eyebrows from aficionados with the last film by delving into the "why? WHY?" of psychotic mask-wearer Michael Myers (Tyler Mane). [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (2215 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 31 agosto 2009
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