I gotta blame Akkad and Weinstein for giving RZ full creative control but I agree to an extent. RZ was riding high off of The Devil's Rejects so at the time I can see why they did. I just rewatched both and I can still say I like the sequel better than the first but I liked them both better before this rewatch. After these 2 films he made Lords of Salem which I liked much better and I believed a return to form...gonna rewatch that soon and see if my opinion has changed with time on that one as well.

I understand your passion cause you're an uber fan of the new installments. I on the other hand am not... while I enjoyed 2018 enough to want to watch it a second time, I did not considering Kills. I guess I'll eventually get around to Ends but honestly I'm not in any kind of rush.

Strong point.

Honestly I never really thought much of the film...I respected how he tried to make it his own but believe somewhere around mid point he lost his way. I always thought H2 was better by far. It's a pretty brutal flick and has some good social commentary underlying imo. That being said now revisiting them I don't believe they've aged well. Here I had RZ H1 rated 3/5 which I now have dropped to a 2/5 and H2 which I had at a 4/5 I have now dropped to a 3/5.

I was never a remake fan especially of the mid 2000s. I still haven't seen a lot of those films for instance, I never saw the Black Xmas or Last House on the Left remakes. I thought I would watch em for the Challenge this year but keep pushing them off. Off the top of my head the only remake I thought was any good from that period was The Hills Have Eyes. Later Maniac (2012) and The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2013). Remakes like ANOES and F13th were outright unwatchable imo.

I thought after rewatching the 2 RZ Halloween films my adjustment of 4/10 and 6/10 respectively seem better than 6/10 and 8/10. Maybe I could give the first a 5/10. As for the original series I would say I'm a fan of the first 4...I could do without the rest. Resurrection was so bad it killed the franchise, they had nowhere to go but reboot if they wanted to continue to profit from the franchise imo.