Clearly, the guy just does not CARE about what the horror community thinks of him. His Halloween series is being roundly castigated by both critics and audiences alike who are staying away in droves large enough to make M. Night Shyamalan look like Steven Spielberg.
But now…oh man. He’s got plans for his NEXT movie, and horror buffs, brace yourselves…you’re not going to like them one iota. His next movie will be a remake–specifically, The Blob.
Okay, this by itself might not be considered bad news. I mean, so what? So what if The Blob ALREADY had a remake over twenty years ago? He’s ROB ZOMBIE, man! He doesn’t CARE about things like respecting canon or even simple logic! He doesn’t have to, apparently. Otherwise, he wouldn’t come out with statements like THIS:
“My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing — that’s the first thing I want to change. That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.”
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Wow.
He wants to remake The Blob…by taking out THE BLOB. What exactly is left?
If it’s like other Rob Zombie films–and I’m not the only ones to pick up on this–what’s left is rednecks, psychopaths, his wife, or any of the above combined. That’s pretty much all the tools he’s got in his arsenal, and if all you’ve got is a hammer, I guess everything really DOES look like a nail.
The ONLY way this can work is if he makes the Blob more active. Now, that would be pretty awesome–if the Blob’s whipping out tendrils to engulf people, Venom symbiote style, that could be worthwhile.
But about the only way “worthwhile” and “Rob Zombie movie ” fit in the same sentence is if the word “not” is involved.
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g d smith said
August 31 2009 @ 5:50 pm
I don’t think he’s a moron. Visionary is a taking his good points a bit far in the other direction. Halloween and Halloween II did not need remaking. But in the current climate they were always going to be remade. At least Zombie did his own thing. the alternative is Bay and his rabble. The thing about modern horror fans is that the net has turned them into whiners. They moan about remakes then make them box office hits. They gripe if a film is too close to the original and gripe harder if they stray to far from it. Worse when original films are made they clog up message boards complaining that this or that film is “gay”, the “worst film ever” or lame. Every film is either too violent, or too tame, too stupid or too arty. Then there’s the films aren’t scary anymore mob. Here’s a truth you are grown ups. You were scared when you were a kid, because kids are easy to scare. Youngster can literally be scared by their own shadows. If you want to be scared as an adult look at your outgoing bills.
Steve Anderson said
August 31 2009 @ 9:14 pm
G.D….you just gave me an awesome idea. You’re getting quoted, brother. Stick around.
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