I just watched the Death Wish remake. It's easily better.
I have a lot of issues with the Halloween remake. Death Wish wasn't perfect either. Some of the kill scenes felt generic, especially compared to the auto garage scene. The good outweighs the bad though. I'd watch a sequel.
It seemed like the kills were trimmed a couple times. Maybe we'll get an uncut version eventually, not that it'd probably add much. I hope this isn't the end of Roth's extreme style of movies, considering that his next one is a PG family flick.
They came for his family. Now he's coming for them.
A semi-remake of "Death Wish" (1974), in which Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon turned vigilante after his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are fatally wounded by intruders.
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten-year-old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his stepfather, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Str
I have a lot of issues with the Halloween remake. Death Wish wasn't perfect either. Some of the kill scenes felt generic, especially compared to the auto garage scene. The good outweighs the bad though. I'd watch a sequel.