After writing and directing a pair of memorably original horror outings—House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects—musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie takes on a remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 shocker Halloween. This new re-imagining pumps up the gore, nudity and swearing quotient and creates a lengthy backstory for the tale’s psychotic slasher, Michael Myers (former WCW wrestler Tyler Mane), but it doesn’t deliver the original’s foreboding atmosphere and growing sense of terror. Still, it’s more entertaining than the majority of original Halloween sequels and offers a genre-friendly cast, including Malcolm McDowell, William Forsythe and Sheri Moon Zombie.

Shelf Talk: One of the most recognized names in modern horror franchise history, Halloween is sure to rattle the register, particularly in its unrated edition, which offers 12 additional minutes of mayhem. And as rocker Zombie is currently on a national tour with Ozzy Osbourne in a tour bus that’s embossed with the DVD’s cover art, you can be sure the title will get noticed.