Halloween II and Inglorious Basterds
Garden Drive-In - Hunlock Creek, PA
On the last Friday night before the start of the Fall semester, we decided to take in a double feature of Rob Zombie's Halloween II and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds at the Garden Drive-In.
The Garden Drive-In is a two screen outdoor theater. The features that we were seeing were on the larger main screen at the back of the lot. The second screen was showing a family friendly double feature that started off with Aliens In The Attic. The advertisements for it sort of reminded me of a movie that came out when I was a kid called Spaced Invaders. The second half of that double feature is a movie called Shorts. I haven't heard of it, but it was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino's partner-in-crime, Robert Rodriguez.
Our first movie of the night was Rob Zombie's sequel to his remake of Halloween. I'm not usually a big fan of remakes, but I liked Zombie's take on the Michael Myers story in the movie that came out two years ago, so I was looking forward to the direction he was going to take the story for Halloween II.
Unfortunately, Halloween II is a massive step down from his first remake. Quite frankly, I think it's one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. It feels like it's trying to be an artsy fartsy with a bunch of scenes of a woman with a horse that were just plain ridiculous. Whatever Rob Zombie was trying to achieve with this movie, it didn't work... at all.
