Horror movie fans -- horrible things are coming ..

[WVUFAN]

Y'know, I don't mind remakes generally speaking, but there's a few movies, especially horror films, that NEVER need to be remade. One is Halloween.

Rob Zombie is retconning Halloween.

http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/

or, if you don't have IMDB Pro:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0373883/

Wow. I'm sure I'm not the only movie buff out there ... are there any films that you think should never, under any circumstances, be remade?

... I mean, pick Zack Snider to do the remake. Have John Carpenter do it ... hell, there's a ton of great young directors. Not Rob Zombie.

[sabotai]

I thought he wasn't remaking Halloween, he was doing a "prequal" to Halloween, similar to the Texas Chaninsaw Massacre movie that came out recently.

[WVUFAN]

Nope. The film revolves around him getting accidentally released from the asylum and returning back to Haddenfield, just like the original.

EDIT: Evidently, he's intending on making Michael Myers a more sympathetic character, as he comes back to PROTECT his sister (played by Scout Taylor-Compton, the teen who went missing last year) instead of kill her.

[FF]

for someone that considers themself such a film buff i have a hard time understanding why you dont think rob zombie isnt qualified to do a halloween project.

whats snyder done? went from dawn of the dead into a non-horror movie in 300 afaik.

[WVUFAN]

for someone that considers themself such a film buff i have a hard time understanding why you dont think rob zombie isnt qualified to do a halloween project.

whats snyder done? went from dawn of the dead into a non-horror movie in 300 afaik.

I mentioned Snider because he did a decent remake. Dawn of the Dead was a pretty good movie, in my opinion.

The two films I've seen from Zombie were both horror films, and both were incredibly sub-par. House of 1000 Corpses was his version of TCM and it was one of the worst horror films I've seen in a long time.

In essence, Rob Zombie is a poor filmmaker, and needs to stay as far away from Halloween as possible. There are MUCH better directors out there, that if you MUST do a remake of it (which you really don't), they would be a much better homage to the original than Zombie will. Eli Roth comes to mine as well.

[sabotai]

I thought The Devil's Rejects was a really good movie.