Director/musician Rob Zombie has a movie out today: Halloween 2. Word of mouth in anticipation for the film has been nonexistent, and word of mouth from midnight screenings doesn’t seem to benefit the film at all. For an example of this, I turn you to Quint’s review over at Aint It Cool News, who states that “it’s been a long time since I’ve seen an audience viciously turn on the movie, but I witnessed it tonight.”
Failing to use a brief moment in the public eye to strongly redeem himself, it’s now reported by Variety that Zombie will be directing a remake of the Steve McQueen film The Blob, possibly before or instead of tackling his more interesting ideas such as Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The Blob will be R-rated, have a $30 million budget and will be scripted by Zombie himself — so we can expect something fairly similar to the output he’s created in the past few years. Zombie plans to “take it in any crazy direction” with a re-imagining of the blob itself: “That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.”
Question, Rob: Why attempt a remake of a horror film you know has a high probability of being utterly ridiculous?
Unless Zombie salvages the filmmaking career he started with a bang and tainted with the Halloween franchise, audiences could be laughing anyway. Let’s hope he’s learned his lesson.
