HALLOWEEN A TREAT AT THE BOX OFFICE

Halloween breaks Labor Day weekend records, scoring number one at the box office.

Labor Day Weekend was a trick or treaters delight for Halloween director Rob Zombie, scaring viewers over the holiday weekend with $26.5 million at the box office.

Zombie’s Michael Myers story rewritten from the original 1978 John Carpenter film has Tyler Mane behind the mask with plenty of real gore and guts to go around.

“The way I wanted the movie to look and I thought would be different, the type of movies I like and I thought what would make this different is just shooting it very real. A lot of times horror movies are never really shot in a realistic style. Sometimes they’re hyper real or a campy edge, kind of like a wink to the audience and all that stuff that I’m not interested in at all. And I think the horror movies that live over time and all these classics don’t have any of that.”

A Clockwork Orange star Malcolm McDowell plays the egomaniacal Dr. Loomis who treats Myers over 17 years at the sanitarium compares Zombie to the late Stanley Kubrick.

“He reminds me a lot of Stanley Kubrick in his care and his attention to detail and all that and he’ll just go on until we get it right.”

Halloween has massacred Superbad at number two with $12.5 million and Balls of Fury with $11 million. It also set a Labor Day weekend record putting it ahead of Transporter 2’s take of $16.5 million in 2005.