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| A happy family soon to be obliterated in Rob Zombie's Halloween |
I agree that I might be full of shit when I make this
comment but to me, the murder of Laurie’s adoptive parents is a way of Zombie
having a bit of fun in a cinematic sense through the destruction of suburbia.
Michael is from that dark corner of humanity typically shielded away from suburbia.
Happy suburban families--seemingly immune to that dark corner of society that
is Michael Myers—destroyed right before our eyes, was available to Zombie. In
Carpenter’s film, Laurie’s family are not to be seen, but Zombie made it a
mission to place emphasis on that dynamic…then uses Michael as a violent tool
to obliterate this family unit. I never felt Zombie was exactly at ease developing suburbia as he's at peace with families like what we witness at the beginning of Halloween (and in The Devil's Rejects). When developing characters that are a bit outside the norm (to him the norm while suburbia is not) of the financially stable middle class, Zombie has a wealth of oddities and over the top creeps in his creative arsenal to obscene and shock audiences. But a middle class suburban family? Not exactly Zombie's cup of tea.
Not long before this, Michael had executed Laurie’s gal pal,
Lynda and her male lay (this provides Zombie with the chance to get one of the
homages to the original out of the way, that of the knife stab to the male victim, with
Michael lifting him off his feet and sticking him to a wall; this also includes
Michael wearing the bed sheet as if a ghost) in the old Myers house. Laurie’s
parents and one of her best friends were treated like little, helpless animals
Michael used to kill when he was a child.
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