Rob Zombie Remakes HALLOWEEN

by Jordan Yerman | July 26, 2007 at 09:39 am

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I guess my first question has to be: what’s the point of a Halloween remake?

What’s the point of anything?

OK, Mr. Zombie. Enough nihilism for this particular morning (West Coast time)...

In a nutshell, Rob Zombie, whose House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects became cult classics, tackles an American classic... Halloween revolutionized horror movies and made a star of Jamie Lee Curtis, who has gone on to comedy, action, drama, and authoring childrens' books, whilst Michael Meyers, the white-masked killer, has remained mired in the suburban purgatory of the movie world... until now.

So much attention has been paid to the idea that you’re remaking Halloween, but realistically people have been doing that for decades with slasher film knock offs. How do you make a slasher film that is different from all the ones we’ve seen over the last thirty years?

I think the biggest thing you do different, and what’s really different about Halloween for the people who have seen it, is that with most slasher movies you don’t care about characters; characters are irrelevant. You’re not following the journey of a character, you’re just watching situations that are violent. In [the original] Halloween the character you’re really following is Laurie Strode, but the character I’m following is Michael Myers. They don’t even hardly call him Michael Myers in the original; they call him The Shape, he’s The Boogie Man, but this is the story of Michael Myers really.

Note: The villain/main character of this film is not the same as one of the co-founders of NowPublic. Different spelling, you see.

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