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Director Rob Zombie Talks About His Own Rendition of Halloween

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9382″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]In case you had forgotten, singer and filmmaker Rob Zombie had made his own Halloween movies some years back. Done with Zombie’s signature style, his two films have caused division among Halloween purists, and in the wake of the latest Halloween film, which has been doing outstandingly well; the director opened up about his time working on the horror movie franchise:

“To be honest, I would rather be doing my own thing. But I am still proud of both Halloween movies. I prefer the second one, which might surprise people,” Zombie shared with GamesRadar. “But the problem is that when you do a remake you can never get a true judgment on what it is you have done. I think it’s the same deal when someone remakes A Nightmare on Elm Street or anything else – it’s just too hard to completely break the formula.”

Setting up his own reasoning for what made Michael Myers, Zombie added that it wasn’t that easy appeasing everyone”

“Everyone knows Michael Myers and a lot of the fans want the same thing again, but maybe with a small twist – like when they did the eighth one and he’s part of a virtual television programme or something,” the filmmaker recalled. “One thing that I got a lot of was, ‘This is what it should have been,’ or, ‘He should have done it like this,’ but if that is the barrier we set then you cannot ever do anything. I really wanted to rework what Halloween was.”

“I kept being asked, ‘Hey, should we show this to Carpenter or so and so from the original and see what they think?’ And my response was just, ‘What the f-ck do I care?’” Zombie claimed. “When I get asked what my advice is in this business I tell people to just focus on what they want to do because if you start worrying about what other people think you are screwed [laughs]. I am oblivious to all that. I love Halloween and I wanted to do my own thing with it. Whether people like my Halloween or don’t like it is irrelevant to me. At least it has my own personal stamp on there.”

It’s easy to get caught up in traditionalism, but when movies are remade, why would we want to see the same thing, when we can appreciate a different spin? In any case, Zombie has a flair for horror films, and his movies should definitely be on your list as a Michael Myers fan.

You should also hit the theaters for the latest Halloween (2018) film, which is absolutely killing it in the box office![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]