The Movie Waffler The Movie Waffler: Retro Reviews

Hitchcock in Reverse - The Birds (1963)

A small coastal community finds itself under siege when our feathered friends turn wildly aggressive.

Hitchcock in Reverse - Marnie (1964)

A troubled female thief is blackmailed into marriage by the businessman she stole from.

Hitchcock in Reverse - Torn Curtain (1966)

An American spy fakes a defection to East Germany in order to steal a secret formula.

Hitchcock in Reverse - Frenzy (1972)

An innocent man is hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of neck-tie murders of women in London.

Hitchcock in Reverse - Family Plot (1976)

Hitch's final film is a convoluted and talky affair that plays more like the TV movies of its era.

Waffleween - Halloween 2 (2009)

Directed by: Rob Zombie
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, Margot Kidder

Follow-up to the 2007 remake of John Carpenter's original.

Waffleween: Halloween (2007)

Directed by: Rob Zombie
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe, Danny Trejo, Bill Moseley, Tom Towles

Rob Zombie reimagines Carpenter's classic.

Waffleween - Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Brad Loree, Tyra Banks, Bianca Kajlich, Katee Sackhoff

A group of students spend a night in the Myer's house as part of an online event.

Waffleween - Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

Directed by: Steve Miner
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, LL Cool J, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Janet Leigh, Nancy Stephens, Chris Durand

Twenty years after his original attempt to kill her, Michael Myers has finally tracked down his sister (Curtis).

Waffleween - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Directed by: Joe Chappelle
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitch Ryan, Kim Darby, George P Wilbur

Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to kill the new-born son of his niece.

Waffleween - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Directed by: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, Don Shanks

A year after he was thought to have been killed in a mine-shaft explosion, Michael Myers awakes from a coma and returns to Haddonfield.

Waffleween - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)


Directed by: Dwight H Little
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George P Wilbur, Beau Starr, Kathleen Kinmont, Sasha Jenson

Ten years after committing the original massacre, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield in search of his niece, Harris.

Waffleween - Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)


Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Starring: Tom Atkins, Dan O'Herlihy, Stacey Nelkin, Nancy Kyes, Michael Currie
Evil mastermind O'Herlihy plans to use Halloween masks as a way of sacrificing children to the ancient Gods.

Waffleween - Halloween 2 (1981)

Directed by:: Rick Rosenthal
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Dick Warlock, Charles Cyphers, Lance Guest, Leo Rossi, Pamela Susan Shoop, Hunter Von Leer, Ana Alicia, Nancy Stephens

Immediately following the events of the first movie, Curtis has been taken to Haddonfield hospital but Michael Myers is still on the loose.

Retro Review - Maverick (1994)

Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Alfred Molina, James Coburn

During the 1990's, film-makers loved to take classic TV shows and try to make them into full-length movies.  The results were real hit and miss, so when "Maverick" came out in 1994, one didn't know whether the film would prove to be comic genius or whether James Garner would disown it.

Waffleween - Halloween (1978)


Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, Tony Moran, PJ Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers

Fifteen years after brutally murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes his sanitarium and returns to his home town of Haddonfield.