He's not doing a sequel, but another one of those "re-imaginings" that seem to be all the rage now. My kneejerk is that is a bad idea... make a sequel that ignores the crap, I would say... However, as is my view with remakes and prequels and all the like, if you have a filmmaker attached that could bring something fresh to the drawing table I'm all for seeing them play in a familiar sandbox.
And this is the case here. I'm not a fan of Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. Not at all. I loved tiny moments, but on the whole the film was a mess. On the other side of the coin, I think Zombie's follow-up, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, was exactly the movie he promised us genre buffs HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES would be. Twisted, totally old-school, restrained and just one hell of a fucked up flick. It captured the feeling of '70s horror better than any post-'70s horror flick has.
So, if he'll put that level of filmmaking into this series, if he puts that style back into the series and is willing to push it to the extremes he did with REJECTS, then count me one of the excited about his involvement. He will also serve as producer and "Music supervisor," the only red flag this whole announcement raises for me. HALLOWEEN will not work if it has a blaring music-only score. I loved the soundtrack to REJECTS, but I do not want to see that in the HALLOWEEN universe. John Carpenter's original score is as tied to these movies as the Shatner mask. What do you folks think?
