After nearly three decades of substandard movies, the Halloween franchise isn’t done. Dimension Films has announced they’re making another one, only this time they’re bringing in someone with a fresh horror perspective.
Dimension has hired horror maven and rockstar Rob Zombie to write, direct, and produce an entirely new take on the legend of Michael Myers. Rob has built up some credibility in the extreme horror genre over the past few years. He wrote and directed the rather horrible 2003 horror movie House of 1000 Corpses, and then did the same for the surprisingly good (yet gruesome) sequel The Devil’s Rejects.
Halloween is probably better off left dead and buried, but if Dimension is determined to bring it back, letting Zombie take a crack at it is definitely an interesting move. Though his first movie was a steaming pile of dung, Rob’s second showed tremendous growth as a filmmaker, and indicates even better, more terrifying things to come from the rocker’s experimentation in blood-soaked cinema. You can be sure that Zombie’s Halloween won’t just be more of the same.
Dimension’s says as much. They insist that this begins an entirely new chapter in the series and that “it will not be a copycat of any prior films in the "Halloween" franchise.” It can’t hurt that Rob is a big fan of the original. “I have been a huge, huge fan of John Carpenter's original film since its release,” he says. “So when Bob Weinstein approached me about this, I jumped at the chance to join forces with Dimension Films on this amazing project.”
While there’s still no title for this next Halloween film, they do have a release date targeted. Rob Zombie’s Halloween should be in theaters October 2007.
