User blog comment:MeltingLizard/Rob Zombie's Halloween/@comment-26030957-20150724035504

I have just watched this scene five times in a row and I dare anyone to challenge me that it isn't one of the greatest pieces of film of this century. Some of the many directors and styles I feel it evokes are the grind house feel that Quentin Tarantino exploits so well, the nineteen seventies exploitation horror of Toby Hooper, the callous indifference and stark style of French luminary Jaques Godard, the style of Ridley Scott and the symmetry of Stanley Kubrick.

To those still in doubt, may I direct you to the shot where the camera begins on the grill of the convertible Cadillac with the Texas plates, rises slowly over it, and only to comes down over the seats and then rotate one hundred and eighty degrees. Do you know how much logistics and money a shot like that costs? Absolutely iconic and up there with Martin Scorsese's shot of the kitchen to bar in Good Fellows or Hitchcock's crazy opening to Psycho.

The cinema verite and rising tension. The final showdown being an obvious homage to Peter Penn's Bonnie and Clyde.

Enough of my ramblings, for the second time this evening, I present to you (I beseech you to view it again and again as I have), the finality to Rob Zombie's masterpiece The Devil's Rejects: