For fans of the genre of Horror, Michael Myers is a god. The original Halloween directed by John Carpenter still holds up to this day as a pinnacle of scary movies. But other than the original movie, the Halloween films have been somewhere between outright laughable and sadly underwhelming. Well modern day grind-meister Rob Zombie has signed to write and direct a new Halloween movie. What this means is open to interpretation, but Zombie has already established himself has a devotee of hardcore 70s horror with movies like The Devil's Rejects and House of 1000 Corpses.
Interestingly, Zombie will be creating a movie that totally discards all the zany Halloween sequels. Quoth the Zombie:
Halloween started off as a very terrifying concept, a terrifying movie. But over the years, Michael Myers has become a friendly Halloween mask. When it came to the point where you could buy a Michael Myers doll that was cute-looking and press its stomach and play the 'Halloween' theme, you knew the scare factor was gone. But I think the story and the situation is scary. All it needed was someone to come in and to take a totally different approach to make it scary again. To me, that's the challenge and that's the fun.
Zombie elaborates further at the Hollywood Reporter. I like most of what he has to say, but am a little concerned about his comments regarding the "look and feel" of his re-imagining. Frankly, one of the best aspects of the original Halloween was its look and feel. It would leave me in a puddle to see Michael Myers done well after all these years. Hopefully Zombie will make that happen for me. If he doesn't then I am sure there will be some kind of flogging involved... which he would probably like. Weirdo.
