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Another remake? AAAAHHHH!
Buried at the bottom of this Variety story is a terrifying little nugget.
“(The Weinstein Company) also has hired Rob Zombie to direct a remake of John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween.’”
Uhhh … no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No!
NO!
Memo to The Weinstein Company. Carpenter’s “Halloween,” one of the best slasher films ever made, is just fine the way it is. It does NOT need updating with editing where it looks like the film was placed underneath a lawnmower. It does NOT need over-the-top gore with extreme closeups of machetes being slammed into foreheads. It does NOT need a death metal score with lyrics of “RAAAHHRRRR” or something to that effect.
More to the point, the “Halloween” series (which should never have been made into a series at all) has already been cannibalized enough. It does NOT need another entry!
Or am I talking out of turn? I haven’t caught any of Mr. Zombie’s (as the New York Times would call him) films, because I consider most horror movies to be creatively bankrupt, and I read nothing about his films to make me want to see them. Is there actually something good afoot here?
Would you see a “Halloween” remake, whether Zombie or someone else made it?
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By MisterG
October 5, 2006 12:18 AM | Link to this
I agree with the estimation of Zombie’s talent along with its current squandering, but I didn’t smile. I groaned. Zombie has only shown so far that he is a master of excess, rather than the good storyteller that a master director must be. Plus, I happen to believe the “Halloween” franchise is so played out that remaking the highly effective original isn’t worth the artistic bother, unless, I suppose, if Carpenter is getting a hefty chunk of change for it. I’ll check it out on DVD if it’s ever made, but I won’t bother with it in a theater.By Zack
October 4, 2006 4:07 PM | Link to this
When I heard about this, I immediately smiled. I think Rob Zombie has the talent of a great filmmaker (though he hasn’t actually made a great, or even terribly good, film yet). I don’t actually care much for Carpenter’s “Halloween,” which I think is well-made, but poorly written. Even if I loved it, though, on the basis of his first two features, I’d be thrilled to see what Rob (who I’m convinced changed his legal name so that THE NEW YORK TIMES would have to refer to him as Mr. Zombie) will do with it. He has passion and wit and a ridiculous knowledge of film history, and a style all his own.By SRCputt
October 4, 2006 3:46 PM | Link to this
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