I was just dissappointed with HOTC. And greatly surprised and impressed with TDR. You're right, too, about the well-done homage of sorts to TCM. And while homages are cool, I love that at least Zombie made them both his own, rather than put the TCM name on them. I wish more film makers would do that rather than slap a proven "brandname" on their product. Thats why I wish Zombie would leave the Halloween franchise alone, make the same film he intends, save for maybe some name changes, and call it something original.