Funny, I thought of getting a Leatherface mask this Halloween.
But my vote goes to Michael Myers as far as movies go, he's still relevant thanks to the Rob Zombie remake of the first film... think his follow up film was horrible like the rest of his films but hey if he had a good movie the first Halloween remake would be it. I liked the Halloween remake because it deals with a the development of Myers as a psychopath, torturing his pets, keeping trophy photos, killing the school bully stone cold...
...plus, after killing his fucked up family there's a scene where he connects with his younger sister who he'll later stock when he gets out of the mental institution. Speaking of the mental institution, I thought the original theatrical cut escape scene was better toward his character remake. The new film's older Myers was a really big guy and really strong. In the theatrical escape scene he busts out of his restraints and slaughters his escort like it's nothing. His size and strength really stands for something because it makes ambiguous whether it's a psychotic force driving his brute strength or it's some supernatural element, and in this first film making him very large and strong definitely steers clear of definitely making it a supernatural. In the "director's cut" instead of escaping by brute strength, Rob Zombie puts in this stupid scene where some drunk redneck hospital staff rapes a girl in Myers room while he's doing crafts and he just decides to escape; I absolutely hated this edit. It totally loses a significant scene demonstrating his monstrous strength which applies toward the end after he's shot and falls and he dies... no he really didn't, the guy was huge and can bust steel chains maybe he could of got up and walked away... without that scene though it's harder to make that excuse. I can only imagine Rob Zombie included the stupid rape scene escape in the "director's cut" as a means of justifying people buy it.
The sequel really ruined any momentum Rob Zombie had going with the first film though. He was a psychopath in the first film, now he's supernatural or schizophrenic, and it's a complete reversal on character development. I loath Rob Zombie for killing a good thing, House of 1000 Corpses sucks, Devil's Rejects sucked and it ruined "Freebird" for me, Halloween was good, but the sequel sucked. I think the asshole is pussywipped or something and his wife demanded she be in the sequel even though her character died in the beginning of the first movie, so he had to find a way to write her in and ruined what he had going for him in the process... and that replacement young Myers sucked too.
Anyhow, of my favorites not listed, I'll have to say it's Chucky, the idea of a killer doll used to scare me as a kid, then I watched the films so much I got desensitized, then they just got funny, think it's all those cheesy one liners that makes those movies so appealing...
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