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It's official: On June 5, 2006, it was confirmed by numerous sources (including HalloweenMovies.com) that Rob Zombie will write, produce, supervise the music for, and direct the next Halloween movie, which will not be a sequel. "That series is over," Zombie says.

And don't worry about him ruining the series -- yet: He has John Carpenter's blessing. Zombie explains, "He told me, 'Go for it Rob. Make it your own.'" The remake/prequel/reimagining/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is slated for release October 2007.

And right now, HalloweenMovies.com is planning an interview with Rob about his love of Halloween and his involvement in the next film.

I can't wait for it to hit theaters. Michael myers is gonna be scary again. :o

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Sounds cool! In a nutshell, here's what Zombie has to do to make Michael Myers scary:
Think "Jack Torrance," "Norman Bates," and "Hannibal Lector."
Dispense with "Jason," "Freddy," "Chucky."
The way Carpenter directed the original "Halloween" made good marketing sense in 1978, but I always felt the movie would have been much scarier if he 'humanized" Michael Myers more. A one-dimensional evil incarnation in a mask is a lot easier to take than a human soul gone terribly awry. The bloody knife is the "thrill." The pathos is the "horror." If Zombie makes a slasher flick,  he won't get to the "deep down" kind of scary, the kind that you can't shake after the movie is over.
Carpenter only used the "Dr. Loomis" character as the man who could catch Michael Myers because he knew Michael Myers. Loomis describes Myers as "pure evil." Pure evil is not scary scary unless you can see where the character went evil. What went wrong for the character? Where did the character go wrong? What motivates the character? Take one of the oldest depictions of evil, "Satan." Satan is reduced  to a big bogeyman if you don't know the story of the angel Lucifer. More psychology, less blood-splatter, that's how I would counsel Rob Zombie.
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He may have Carpenter's blessing but not mine. Anyone who's even seen the previews for "House of 1,000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects" would agree. He'll probably up the gore and reduce the scares. >:(

The original movies were cheesy and lame and any remakes will be cheesy and lame.

He may have Carpenter's blessing but not mine. Anyone who's even seen the previews for "House of 1,000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects" would agree. He'll probably up the gore and reduce the scares. >:(

Indeed..I was talking a big "IF." How much subtlety can you expect from a guy who calls himself "Rob Zombie" and looks like this:
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He was in the trash-metal band "White Zombie," and among his ditzy solo projects was CD for his Playboy Bunny wife called,
"American Music to Strip By"

(ahem, you mean "American Music By Which To Strip"!)
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Maybe he has Carpenter's blessings because Carpenter his his licensing fee! But who knows, maybe he'll surpise us with a stroke of genius. If his horror films stop selling, he can always direct porn, he has the perfect name for it, his real name:
Robert Cummings.
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Actually Zombie is turning into a really good horror director.  House of 1,000 Corpses was lacking, however The Devil's Rejects was a dramatic improvement and one of the best horror movies to come out in the last few years.  I'm excited at the prospect of Zombie re-making Halloween.  Remember, what was arguably John Carpenter's best movie was a re-make.  I'm talking about The Thing.  I hope this movie turns out like that.  Scary, and distinguishes itself from the original.  I do hope he keeps certain elements though.  The music more than anything, and of course the mask. 

I don't think he'll go too heavy on the gore.  Zombie actually despises 80s-style slasher flicks.  He only likes the original Halloween which although it had some of the elements there, wasn't really a slasher but more of a suspense film in the tradition of Psycho.  The heavy gore served the story in The Devil's Rejects.  Directors don't always make the same exact movies.