Zombie's Halloween

I hate film remakes. They're cop outs. "Can't think of an idea? That's okay. Just take an already successful one, rip out its heart, send it through a digitizer, and slap it on a clever advertising campaign." It's terrible. We're creative people and we've been writing novels for too long to use the 'every good idea has been taken' execuse. No genre, director, or era can escape the recycle bin.

The 1978 classic horror film, Halloween (1978) is no exception. Normally, I would ignore the idea altogether, but Rob Zombie is slated to direct. Many write off his films, House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and The Devil's Rejects (2005). It's easy, isn't it? Shitty musician = shitty everything, right? Not so! Hell, look at 'N Sync's Joey Fatone. He was a much better actor than he was a singer. Just check out On The Line with gay co-star/bandmate Lance Basssss. For serious though, Rob Zombie is no joke. He has a real knack for the horror genre: the gore, the grime, the thrills, the twisted comedy, and I trust that his Halloween might even surpass the quality of the original. I'm not so sure you can beat out Jamie Lee Curtis, though, when you consider she once had the rare gift of vag-balls. You need a nice brassy pair to deal with that dude, Michael Myers, even if there's a vagina where your testes once were.

Anyway here's the scoop. Zombie told Yahoo: "I basically went back and just came up with the idea of basically - not essentially a remake, but a very extended prequel sort of combined with an update, say, of the first film.

"You're starting from scratch but in sort of a more detailed way. That's the way I thought it would be exciting for fans of the original, because it's not just the same old thing, and it would be exciting for people that never saw the original."

Not exactly the most eloquent guy you've ever encountered, but he is a country boy, so give him some slack. At least he's not writing the screenplay.

(Check out the pic. He's looking more and more like a prick director every day.)