Halloween 2 on the way...

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hey guys, just got this from the horror movie site shocktillyoudrop, and as it turns out, they are making a sequel to rob zombies Halloween.
any thoughts on this?
i personally think its great, as long as they keep continuity running with the remake and dont send him into outer space or anything.

''Source: Rue Morgue Magazine August 23, 2008


Earlier this summer, we broke the news Dimension Films' Bob Weinstein was wooing Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (of Inside) to helm a follow-up to Rob Zombie's Halloween.

Rue Morgue Magazine took this news one step further and spoke to the pair who confirm "it's a proposition we couldn't refuse." Maury explains they're reverent of Zombie's re-imagining of Michael Myers and they're out to put their stamp on the character not copy what came before them. "Therefore, our vision will be done with upmost respect, with a continuity of [Zombie's] work but also a real evolution of the world he set in place."

To read the full interview, be sure to pick up the September issue of Rue Morgue Magazine when it hits stanRAB in the next week or so!''
 
Utter crap indeed. Although I didn't think much of McDowell either to be honest, wasn't his fault though. He just did what he was told, and came across as merely trying to imitate Donald Pleasance and failing miserably.

I'd rather force myself to watch Halloween: H20 again, than yet another sequel based on a pitiful remake.

It amuses me when Rob Zombie stated he wanted to direct a remake that would present a new take on the story, whilst paying homage to the original which he felt would greatly please the fans. Yet all he did was decimate what made the original film work so well in the first place (the suspense, fear of the unknown), stoop to an all time low by copying scenes shot for shot, that isn't homaging Rob, that's ripping off somebody else's work and solely succeeded where he shouldn't have, by infuriating thouse very fans.
 
Didn't like the remake. Al lthe back story added nothing to the Michael Myers mythos. In fact it sort of made him less threatening. All the deaths were lacking suspense.
 
Agreed.

This made the sequels (like 4, 5 and 6) seem like Citizen Kane. The dialogue was chronic, written by an ASBO kid with tourette's.
 
i do agree with what everyone is saying, of which is why im liking the idea of a sequel, in the hope that it will actually be good to make up for zombie's work lol
 
I've always thought the only Halloween sequels that were any good were Halloween II and 4.

H20 was just pointless. It's Scream trying to disguise itself as being a Halloween flick, right down to them tracking the music score from that film into it.

Watch the opening of Scream and then Halloween: H20.

Scream homaging Halloween made sense. Going the Vice-versa route was merely insulting.

Who could forget the mask though? Its continuity is a joke.

It's obvious they used more than one mask, because it constantly changes from shot to shot. Why didn't they just stick with the one that actually looked like the Shatner mask from the original? Were they really that blind? Obviously.
 
Halloween for me was the only enjoyable Rob Zombie movie. I could not stand House Of 1000 Corpses or Devil's Rejects. He did something new and up-to-date with the movie.
 
Maury/Bustillo's Halloween = Michael Myers stabbing a pregnant woman for an hour and a half. :D

In all seriousness,I actually enjoyed Zombie's Halloween,but it was greatly inferior to the original and can understand why so many people hated it.However,I think there is life left in the Michael Myers and anybody that believed there would not be another Halloween movie is very naive.

Personally I'd like to see them develop the story that John Carpenter wrote for Halloween 4,that was basically a ghost story about Michael.
 
I didn't have much hope for Halloween (2007) being any good because i think that Rob Zombie is a terrible director. 'The Devil's Rejects' is easily one of the worst films i've ever watched, the only bit i liked in that film was the way they used Freebird at the end, everything else was pure crap, from the abysmal acting (the angry sheriff guy was pretty much a walking cliche) to the over the top swearing and violence.

Zombie seems to think that saying "f*ck" a lot and caking everything in blood automatically makes a film adult, when in fact it just comes across as childish.
 
Filmed by the guys who made Inside, so it can't be as bad as Zombie's horrendous remake at least. Look forwarRAB to it. I agree with Devil's Rejects CJClarke, one of the worst movies I have watched in a long time.

Go back to music Zombie man.

As for Halloween H20, I enjoyed it :p I didn't notice music used in Scream put into Halloween H20... they did however use Marco Beltrami's(did the Scream trilogy scores) actual score from the film Mimic in Halloween H20 near the end.

Halloween Resurrection, now that was terrible and insulting.
 
I agree, it was awful, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it was on par with Zombie's waste of celluloid.

At least Jamie Lee Curtis appeared for all of fifteen minutes in Resurrection. :rolleyes:
 
When I first saw it, I spent money on a dvd :( I just zoned out after that part in the spoiler, just couldn't believe they went ahead with that crap...
 
I saw that for the first time this year and completely agree with you,I can't believe the critical acclaim that movie garnered.
Ebert even rated it higher than he did The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
 
I was thinking the same thing. I hate the overuse of the f-word in movies which didn't need it. Pulp Fiction managed to pull it off. I think Robert Zombie loves to drop the f-bomb at every opportunity in order to attain an R/18-rating if the murder and rape fest doesn't.
 
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