Zombie Attack! Director Back for 'Halloween' Sequel

So Rob Zombie will be making another Halloween movie, ingeniously titled H2, which should at the very least not hurt Hummer's business. Or the sales of commercial-grade hydrogen.For reasons that were never clear to me, the first film, a remake of the John Carpenter classic with some origin story thrown in, was released closer to Arbor Day than Halloween, but that won't be a problem for the sequel. Zombie and Dimension Films will roll H2 into theaters in October, according to Bloody Disgusting, giving them a full six months to shoot it, do all the post-production, and release it. Kind of a tight schedule, but this isn't exactly Australia.A few months ago, Zombie wanted no part of the sequel, so why the change in attitude?"I was so burned out. (But) I took a long break, made a record and I got excited again," Zombie said. "Now, we'll be hauling ass, and that's the problem making a movie called Halloween: If you come out November 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I'd be fine."The worst news in my mind isn't that they're making a sequel, because I think that was a fair assumption, but rather that Zombie is writing the script. Here's the deal: Zombie has the potential to be a great mainstream horror director. He doesn't have the artistic bent of Alexandre Aja, but he can be interesting. I love a lot of stuff in House of 1,000 Corpses. The problem is that he writes his own material, and his dialogue is mostly garbage. So imagine, if you will, that guy writing against the clock. It's not a pretty picture.H2 is not going to follow the events of the second Halloween film, and that's perfectly fine. It's even better if they avoid the plot of the third one. So Rob Zombie's nut to crack now is making a Michael Myers story we haven't seen, which is tougher than it might seem because there are only so many places you can take a monolithic killing machine. I mean, he won't be struggling to make ends meet as a coffee shop folk singer, for example.

Comments

[Jeremy]

I've said it before - I actually liked Zombie's Halloween. What I liked even more was that he was so adament about not doing another one. It made the stand alone project more appealing that way. I think he even said in the commentary somewhere that the final scene was done so, so as not to leave a door open for a sequel. If he needed a paycheck that bad, why didn't he just finish Tyrannosaurus Rex already.

Christ, next thing you know they are going to remake The Crow. Ah #@%$...