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Rob Zombie To Remake THE BLOB Without ' ...a big red blobby thing' !!
Merrick here...
Quint mentioned this in his HALLOWEEN 2 review (HERE), but this news seemed worthy of its own article...
Rob Zombie is mounting a remake of THE BLOB.
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."
...says Variety HERE.
Presumably, Rob means the film will use a Blob-like creature...perhaps one that stretches and shape shifts in a scary, unpredictable, rapid fashion?...instead of the Jell-O tsunami seen in previous iterations of the concept. Otherwise, why call this THE BLOB?
Zombie's BLOB will shoot for the $30 million (ish) budget model successfully utilized by CLOVERFIELD and DISTRICT 9.
The original 1958 iteration of this story starred Steve McQueen:
The title was revisited in 1988 by Chuck Russell (ERASER, the forthcoming T.J. HOOKER movie).
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Of white trash hellbilles?
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I am amazed. I am also amused that he wants to make a movie called THE BLOB without The Blog. That's visionary!
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And make it the plants.
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Just don't fucking do this. If anything take a fucking OLD ass movie that could actually use an update....ummm how about White Zombie?
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we need more Rob Zombie hate TBs.
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Now. I fucking mean it AICN. You're only encouraging him. It's like giving a flare gun to a retard. Just fucking stop.
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She scared me. That would be a great movie (for me to poop on, yadda yadda yadda). But seriously, remaking THE BLOB without said blob is a waste of one's remaking abilities. Since Zombie has embraced the Hollywood practice of not having original concepts of his own, I sympathize with his struggle as an "artist." However, it is time we start digging a little deeper into our souls and ask "When does a blob stop being a blob?" Deat God, what will that answer be?!?1
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That Zombie's going to make a Blob remake without the Blob, or that they're actually going to make a TJ Hooker movie. -
It's a solid, it's a liquid, it's a Non-Newtonian Fluid!
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Why does he still get movie work other than low-budget slasher-porn? I just watched Halloween 2 last night and it's the worst movie I've seen in years. I watched Halloween just before and it's Oscar-material compared. I beg all of you who haven't seen it, do not pay $ to see this piece of shit.
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Shawnee Smith was awesome in the '88 Blob and Ben Affleck was awesome in Phantoms.
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I cant even be arsed to comment on this!!
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Get the fuck away from The Blob! It's a classic because of what it is. You fuck with The Blob and it's not The Blob anymore. Please somebody stop this fool!
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Are they remaking the original? the remake? the source material? or the manga? all of them entirely different than each other of course... I'm strongly indifferent about this lol... Maybe 'cause i'm already numb towards this type of news. :/
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Right?
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you know it's true. I think I'm kinda done supporting Rob Zombie movies, unless his El Superbeasto is somehow awesome.
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And profanity. And more urban and gritty. And star most of Rob Zombie's relatives.
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And how they address the audience directly, as if there's actually a blob creature coming to get you. Now we just get overeditied hypefests with Lux Aeterna playing.
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Aug 28, 2009 9:52:37 AM CDT
woah, I didn't even see that post by T 1000 xp professional
by soylentmean
I was talking about the T-1000 in Terminator 2...
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Aug 28, 2009 9:53:26 AM CDT
I like Lux Aeterna, worth buying the Requiem for a Dream...
by soylentmean
soundtrack for.
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why change the thing that makes the Blob it was it is? Don't call it a Blob remake then. seriously what studio hires him to do this shit? Hopefully H2 will tank and the execs will change their mind.
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"...It's like giving a flare gun to a retard..."
Couldn't have said it better myself. Seriously, how the fuck does this guy still get work? Does he pimp out his wife to the studio heads or something then blackmail them with the video?
Mr. Zombie, please stop. We love your music. Hellbilly Deluxe was my workout music for two straight years, but your movies suck a big Chew-tobacco spit covered cock. Don't feel bad, I love Chris Nolan's stuff, but if he put out an album it be probably be just as bad as your movies are.
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So much for getting that Blob movie I always wanted with some awesome CG work. I do want Rob to make this though, so I can know what the worst movie ever made looks like.
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No, really. Like, how?
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so to repeat my post in the Halloween 2 thread, did that other remake fall through? the one that was being called B.L.O.B. and being directed by a brother team. not sure if it was the Hughes bros. or those guys involved with that Kristen Stewart horror movie.
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Is that he peaked with The Devils Rejects. Love it or hate it, for what it is, its fucking great. Just the posters for it where awesome. He probably won't even do better then that.
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Unfortunately, this guy makes lots of money on shoe string budgets for greedy studio execs who only care about the bottom line. Rob: If you have any respect for the movie goer, just stop, already. It's not like you're getting any better at making movies.
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Apparently, she's some sort of struggling actress. He could put her in the movie and help him get out of his rut.
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Just read a great interview with Tarantino where he was asked why he didn't take the studio work offered to him ("Speed" and "Men In Black", among others) after the success of "Pulp Fiction" and his response was along the lines of, "Because once an artist takes his first corporate gig, it's that much easier to take the next and after 4 or 5 of these he has lost his voice". Sadly, it appears that this is what has happened to Zombie. Taking the first Halloween was bad enough but knocking out a shit sequel before trying another original project was strike 2. If this Blob abomination goes through it'll be the last nail in his coffin.
Too bad. "The Devils Rejects" showed real signs that he was coming into his own as a director.
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...whatever happened to the Rob Zombie who said he LOATHED remakes? Didn't he once say in an article that remakes were pointless and stupid and he would never direct one, etc, etc, etc? What a hypocrite.
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...without children and without corn.
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in which case the movie might be good..chick's got a really nice ass! why she ended up with a hillbilly retard like zombie is anyones guess
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It looks kinda funny and we don't have enough Horror cartoons (where the fuck are the rest of the seasons of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Cartoon Network?) but damn, I too remember reading about how Zombie would never ever make a remake, nevertheless three of 'em.
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Kevin Dillon is the shit...
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I miss exciting young people.
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Nothing says a Blob movie like kittens being slowly devoured.
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Attention Whitey's!! Stop supporting this guy and his rape of film!!
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I have to ask the question after reading this article. If he loves horror movies as much as he claims he would stop fucking up classic works of directors who are obviously his better.
And to answer Rob's question, yes, a giant blob of red goo trying to eat people can be a scary movie with a director who knows how to create tension that doesn't involve crazed hillbillies or someone getting their face smashed into a wall. -
this WITH a Resevoir and an all dog cast.
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will be born out of Sheri Moon Zombie's ass. Sheri's little shit monster. Just wait and see.
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I don't see how it can be topped. That had some pretty gruesome and scary death scenes.
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...who hated the idea of remakes? Guess he got over that.
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Maybe call it "The Runs", make it a little more puss like than blob like I guess.
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You made my point first and I missed it.
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They should just re-release that one in "3-D" and call it a day.
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I still think Devil's Rejects was great and Zombie has another one of those in him. Let's not count him out just yet.
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Was there ever a plot divulged way back when he was signed on to write/direct The Crow 3?
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You did forget the T&A, though.
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" Holy shheeeiiit Skeeter what's that gooey stuff dangling from the end of your poking stick?
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Was fricken' amazing. It was just the perfect marriage of high concept special effects, interesting characters and a good story directed and edited really well. Just a great time at the movies. There was room for improvement on the original, there isn't on the remake.
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Too bad Hanna Montana the movie already did it.
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"That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now." Funny coming from a guy who has yet to deliver a scare. People would just laugh now huh? You mean like they do at your movies?
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His movies suck each and every time.
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Iv`e already spent my Zombie hate for today on the H2 talkback..I got no more...
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This Rob Zombie character will get the greenliht for a remake of "The Stuff". Only, his trailer park thinking brain will want to call it "The Shit" and have people eating cups of it, instead of the fluffy white stuff of the original satirical camp classic. Damn I haven't seen that film in years. Gonna have to look for it now. Oh yeah, I hope someone "Skull Fucks" Zombie.
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the script is online i think. it takes place in the future and its about this kid who dies and all like the previous movies. but this time he comes back with no memories i think and its only years later that he remembers and goes on the typical "Crow-murder-spree". sounded sorta stupid but i'm sure would have been better than the craptacular DTV movies that were Parts 3 and 4.
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About two hillbillys who share the same common manerisms and interests...sherri moon zombie to star!
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...The Devils Rejects was his only good movie. That sucked just as bad as Halloween.
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please.
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only its starring the retarded looking kid who played Michael Myers in Halloween who is living in a trailer park and is bald. He longs for a full head of hair and comes across the peanut butter solution but goes on a murderous cannibalistic rampage when he finds out he is allergic to peanuts.
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"The Stuff" I might get interested
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see Rob Zombie remake "Gnaw Food of the Gods Part II" instead...Or how about "Ratboy?"
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my mom says there's a lot of black people in China.
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Aug 28, 2009 10:57:22 AM CDT
Perfect example of a re-imagined "BLOB" animated short film
by seventhbrother
Have you guys seen OCEANSIZE? It is a CG animated film by 4 French students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008. It has a very creepy and effective creature and potentially doubles as a statement about natural resources.. http://vimeo.com/4470589
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"The Answer, A Really Bad Idea For A Movie"
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Horrifying!
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He didn't want to do Halloween 2, but gave in and now is remaking another movie? I thought Rob was one of those people who loved old school horror. He needs to do something orginal. What happened to his T-Rex movie?
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Birds arn't scary in 2010.
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LMAO!!!!! God DAMN that cracked me up : )
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Now that would make for an interesting blob movie.
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Aug 28, 2009 11:07:18 AM CDT
NO RED BLOBBY THING BUT PLENTY OF ROOM FOR HIS SKANKY WIFE!!!
by carlthormark1978
Just need some screaming obnoxious rednecks who do nothing but swear and the movie practically writes itself!!! Fucking moron is doing to much coke.
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Platinum Dunes tried to remake The Birds in 2007 and Dimenson is still trying to get a remake done. Tippi Hedren voiced her displeasure for a remake saying there is nothing new you could do. Oh of course there is. Bigger budget, CGI Birds, teen models disgused as actors.
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Aug 28, 2009 11:10:09 AM CDT
All 'The Blobs' so far have been great in their own way.
by hint_of_smegma
Until now, that is. Dear Rob Zombie; please stop making films. You are shit at it. There are youtubers who can make better films. Get a career guidance counselor and move into a field more befitting your talents. Long haired ditch-digger springs to mind. Now kindly fuck off away from beloved B-Movie and Horror franchises you utter twat.
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...a blubbery inbred redneck with wild eyes and a Grizzly Adams beard that goes around town and slowly eats the townsfolk. Book it.
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Since he claims to hate remakes, maybe this is his way of permanently killing the demand for them. Sure, it could wreck his career, but Van Gogh suffered for his art as well. The only chink in the plan's armor is the brain-dead fuckwits who shell out their hard-earned cabbage for this tripe and admit to enjoying it.
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has much to answer for, starting with Rob Zombie.
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It's shit, unsuprisingly.
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Used to have such a thing for her. Just curious, whatever happened to her?
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I really liked it. It was one of the decade's better horror flicks.
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Aug 28, 2009 11:12:55 AM CDT
BacardiRocky, LEAVE GNAW : FOOD OF THE GODS PART 2 ALONE!!!
by carlthormark1978
It's a great little cheesy Horror flick and doesn't need to be molested by this hillbilly poser!
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Aug 28, 2009 11:14:56 AM CDT
Booster, I think Shawnee Smith was in a couple Saw movies
by soylentmean
Not sure what she's doing now...
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I've always had a thing for her ever since first seeing her in Summer School and The Blob.
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Oh the things I'd do to her.
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I cannot wait to rip your fucking heart out you turncoat.
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"That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now." Wasn't the whole point of the original Blob that it was a tongue-in-cheek horror movie. I love the original, but it's campy as camp can get. Rob Zombie clearly doesn't get that.
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with Fred Durst and Korn.
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THE 88 BLOB WAS CREEPY AS FUCK UNTIL THE END MAYBE. OF COURSE, I WAS 11 THEN. When dude got pulled down the drain. The phone booth. The guy at the beginning reaching out to Shawnee's character(cute as fuck I might add). Her and Drama better have a cameo
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...and agree with others that posted before me who wrote that the original could be improved on and not so much for the sequel. Some gruesome kills in that flick. The boyfriend in the police barracks, the cop getting folded in half, backwards, and pulled through a hole in a wall, the scientists biosuit filling up. Good times!Have to say, though... That was one EXTENSIVE sewage system for such a small townie town.
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I thought Zomibe was such a horror movie nerd/junkie? Either the cat is lying his ass off to justify this entirely unnecessary remake or he is a complete dumbass movie-wise (I'll bet the former). Chuck Russell did the definitive, full bore, R-rated Blob movie in the early 90's and it still has the power to scare. And, oh yes, it is a big red blob that moves really fucking fast and can get smaller to suck a guys face down a kitchen drain (great scene, btw). Zombie, it is time in your horror movie career to do something original for a change...or else just legally change your name to Marcus Nispel and be done with it.
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The Blob was dumb in the 50s, dumb in the 80s and will be dumb now. Who would want to see this besides worshippers of Rob Zombie or thoses who likebad horror movies?
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The campaign starts here.
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and his lack of fucking imagination!!!!
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Oh Christ, the BLOB franchise... I kill me.
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... with the original cast!
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That movie was a major pleasant surprise. The Fx were great and you really were scared of the BLOB disolving your ass. That scene in the Phone Booth...The guy with his arm down the sink...the police station...the sewer chase...great horror scenes one and all, and very well done. The ending as well with the giant tentacled blob gobbling up everything was awesome. Under-rated movie by far, and one of the BEST remakes ever for any film. Note to Zombie: You can make anything scary if you have a good script, direction and acting. Also, you can have the scariest looking monster in the world but zero scares if you cant get a good script, direction and acting. Anything, and I mean ANYTHING can become an object of terror and dread if done right.
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I have liked every one of Zombie's movies. DR was fantastic, that's right...fantastic. I'm not sure if you people sound more like pathetic film critics or uber fans of Transformers 2. Either way, I just don't get all the hate for this guy. Name me all those wonderful AMERICAN horror movies of the past 5 years, hell even 10 years. I'm just not sure what all of you are using as a comparison.
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I hope so! And having The Blob crying on the stoop of his home while it plays Love Hurts would be good too.
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How many times do I have to say it?!?! Zombie...rumor has it you read these TB's altho after the beating in this one, you might not read this far but dude...for the love of edible panties and big big boobies...remake "The Car"!!!The '77/'78 version pre-Christine and not remotely related to 'Duel' or that one vignette with man-god Lance Henrickson versus the evil pickup truck.It's cheap budget ready...a few versions of The Car, some pyrotechnics, some open desert land, your boy Bob Forsythe and Sid Haig could play roles (Haig would be perfect too) would be all you need...it's got death and mayhem, a hint of true evil, a great classic death scene...that fucking car with the totally kick ass air horn staccato blasting down the highway. It takes place in your trademarked environment "mid west and dirty" and you could fill it with hillbillies and you wouldn't piss off a single person as the original had fucking hillbillies in it!Either that or start remaking Eli Roth's crap...can't be any better and can't be any worse...Or just go back to what you obviously do best...music. And artwork too...always liked your artwork on the Zombie discs...Seriously...it's like playing 'hot-cold' with a retard...keep saying "Getting COLDER!! COLDER!! FREEZING!!" and the retard never changes direction. You have vision but no means to get it into such a wide medium as film...and now that you're the Eddie Murphy of remakes, at least remake something that's almost perfect for you: The Car!
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Awesomeness
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thats even rare these days but especially in the 80s. anytime a kid showed up in horrow you knew he'd survive so even though it wasn't the main kid, it was still nice seeing an innocent child die even to my 11yr old eyes.
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People always forget to use it as evidence that remakes *can* be a good thing. It gets forgotten after classics like Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's The Fly.
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Aug 28, 2009 12:07:51 PM CDT
The Blob will eat someone while a southern classic rock song is
by choonie
This Guy is SO Original!!!! I HATE you Rob Zombie.
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Yes I left that out
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ERASER???? Reaaaally AICN? I mean, the dude gave us the 2nd best NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (its the thirdsy) and THE MASK which was a bigger deal than ERASER (which still has the distinction of being the last watchable movie our Governer made). Give a dude a bone here.
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Except this time, she's a male hillbilly who rapes and violently kills people. Sheri Moon Zombie plays a Chimney Sweep.
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I have liked every one of Zombie's movies. DR was fantastic, that's right...fantastic. I'm not sure if you people sound more like pathetic film critics or uber fans of Transformers 2. Either way, I just don't get all the hate for this guy.Name me all those wonderful AMERICAN horror movies of the past 5 years, hell even 10 years. I'm just not sure what all of you are using as a comparison.
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that's right...horrible.
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director category, is Jack Shoulder, who directed Nightmare 2, but the overlooked minor classic The Hidden. Now THERE'S a movie that could be remade with a much bigger budget. Understand Shoulder is a professor somewhere...
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"Starring Steve McQueen and a cast of exciting young people!" They could advertise many films like this today, "starring name actor and a cast of hot young people!"
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Oh cool, and it wont be a simple colored gelatinous blob either.
Maybe it will be comprised of a more uncured silicone caulking full of dark colors, like greans and browns and blacks, with an internal active vascular and lymphatic system inside with pretty bioluminescent lights blinking off inside as well, with steam coming off of it as it burns everything it travels over. We sorta saw the burn smoke effect in the 1988 blob when it got that chicks hair, but it was never steaming all the time. Given that it's an eating machine it should at some point be chalk full of victims still melting inside it like birds, dogs, cats, humans, cows, squirrels, and insects again we sorta saw that in 88 but it was just a few victims all of the human... Hell who says it has to say together as a single blob maybe it's thing this time around is to take over it's hosts, and turn them into blob like zombie's that are melting away and trying to get other victims to spread more blob about and again it's not just humans. All life..
This is a good movie for him to screw around with. The plot was pretty simple. A group of people sees a meteor fall to earth. They try to find out where it landed. I say you use a drive-inn for the spectators who chase it down. They find it. It attacks one of them. They take that person to the hospital for help, the rest writes itself, and you don't even have to play it out like that.
It could be a bio weapon created by the government or something they found in the 50's at a ufo crash site- Something they experimented with in an undisclosed underground location trying to find way to control it seeing how it responded to certain food sources. Imagine a scene where a group of convicted prisoner's are being taken by bus to jail, only the bus drives past the prison. The prisioner's see another truck driving on the other side with a burnt up destroyed replica of the bus they are in. They are being taken to the base for testing with the blob. We see countless government study videos of them being attacked by it. Some are covered in a gel that protect them from the vlovs attack but after a short period of time it fails- like anti blob stuff also foudn in the ufo. speaking of which when they foudn the ufo crash site maybe the aliens where found being devoured by the blob, so it was like something they - they aleins collected and it fucked them over. Crazy fucked up shit like that. Anyways all of these test subject die. One of them is covered in the gel but his arm is left exposed the blob chews right through his arm. He screams no stop for what seems like forever. One of the hasmat suit government guys in the room with him, walks up behind him and shoots him in the head. The replacement bus full of cadaver bodies is set on fire and the news reports that it wrecked and everyone inside was killed.
Cut to a scene with some of the blob being transferred to a new base in an unmarked truck. There's a car wreck on the highway that turns into a pileup. The blob gets free and it attacks the trapped people and the people trying to help them.
Anything can happen, you just give it a little back story and you go wild. Yes I am looking forward to this. The blob sorta ripped of war of the world, and then everything else involving it crashed to earth stuff like critter and the killer klowns sorta ripped them both off. It had a good sequel and damn good remake. -
Agreed. The Hidden is fucking great. I have the theatrical poster up on my wall. Great poster, great movie. The '80s Blob was great as well. I love a horror movie that isn't afraid to kill little kids. Like AvP:Requiem.
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PUT KEVIN DILLON IN ANOTHER REMAKE!
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That was an amzing response, thanks for your reply.
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Actually, just fuck Rob Zombie, hand the reigns to someone else.
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After a Southern brother and sister engage in some southern comfort in the woods, the discarded condom gets spewed upon by some chewing tobacco spit from the afore mentioned brother. The mixture of pure hilbilly juice creates a biological terror that consumes most of the northern states until it reaches the steps of the White House and is confused into remission by a black President.
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that's right...you're welcome.
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Very insightful and humorous. Obviously all these years you've spent living in your mother’s basement have paid off
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I really hope that a proper, unrated DVD release of 1988's The Blob surfaces at some point. The effects stuff in that film was cut way back, in a pretty clumsy fashion - you can hear the jumps on the soundtrack.
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An internet think-piece that eats people and grows to enormous proportions? Call it 'The Blog'!
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Aug 28, 2009 12:34:45 PM CDT
What if he means they'll make it more like the Thing?
by domi'sinnerchild
Instead of a purple ameoba, it's a giant shapeshifting eatting machine devouring everything in its path? Like the 80's thing, but slithering through a town and growing larger and larger. You could probably do some more interesting things with that then the 88 remake that most had it sneaking up on people through pipes, over the movie theater, etc. That's my guess, he just wants the freedom to make it as threatening and disgusting as possible.
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The Blob was just picked on as a kid.
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...have Michael Moriarty running around Kevin McCarthy style yelling,"Run for your life!...It's the stuff...IT'S THE STUFF!!!"
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Was a solid movie. It had enough action and gross shit that it really does not need to be remade. They set up a sequel perfectly. But they should just leave it alone. Especially if Rob remakes it and it will be about how the blob became the blob because when he was a baby blob his step father called him a "faggot" and his mom was a blob stripper and everything in the movie will have a white trash grunge makeover. And after the blob origin story the original movie will be crammed into 30 minutes of screen time. Fuck this one trick pony. I'd rather see a bland blob remake directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Platinum Dunes with an uneventful score by Jablonsky before I see another Zombie-fied piece of shit movie. Fuck em.
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OK, after going through his Shalloween fix, i was hoping that Rob would move on to something more original, but fuck him. He's no Carepenter, just another bonafide hack.I'll always remember him for his great music though. /:
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Sheri's Tampon, perhaps?
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It'll probably just be about a fat redneck serial killer.
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C'mon, we can get a better thread meltdown going than this so far...!
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It just eats everything in it's path!
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It was generally regarded as a piece of shit. In retrospect, it's one of the better sci-fi/ horror classic remakes that have been done.
I wonder. In 20-odd years, when some other no-talent decides to remake BLOB with Zac's adopted Malawi son Gazinga Efron and a cast of "exciting cast of young holo-people", will we all wistfully look back on Zombie's take with fondness? Not a chance in Hell(although I am laying odds that Gazinga will be a Disney Neural Net superstar). -
is the worst filmmaker ever (except for Uwe Boll). Does this guy really think he can bring justice to all these old, beloved films?
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..FROM ROB ZOMBIE'S BEARD..AArrrrggghhhhhh!!!!
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and it will fuck the eyeballs good & proper of the box office.
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I haven't liked a single Rob Zombie movie but this seems like a good fit for him. Probably going to be a huge gorefest. That goes without saying. Whether not theres any tension is anyone's guess. I'm betting on "no."
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to be played by Tyler Mane.
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Forgot all about that. It too was a major surprise and exceded my expectations as did BLOB remake. I for one would love to see another directors take on THE BLOB and Zombie is just different enough that it might be something fresh.
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She's pretty anamorphic and huge.
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...is great. The fast, morphing blob was pretty freaky and the PERFECT way to update the original. Love that bit with the absorbed guy stuck to the ceiling with the yo-yo still attached to his finger.
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http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/archives/2009/08/is_the_cloverfield_monster.html
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Aug 28, 2009 1:47:06 PM CDT
It's been said, but Zombie should redo "The Stuff"
by shut the fuck up donny
Garrett Morris gotta eat!
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I just love a good Mo'nique insult.
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No one will see it, but it will keep him busy.
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Aug 28, 2009 2:02:17 PM CDT
Rob Zombie To Remake Batman Without ' ...a guy in a rubber bat-s
by bozemaster69
Batman will now be an orphaned red-neck from the countryside of Gotham City. He will fight crime using a Bat-tractor and will be accompanied by his cousin Robin. His tools will not be on a utility belt around his waist but will be hooked with a safety pin onto the straps of his overalls.
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John Carpenter's The Thing. Good night and good luck, Rob. Hahahaha
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Well, it's one thing to be big boned or thick. But to be obese and proud of it...yeek.
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I will become the Phantom of the Set and ruin it. The Stuff is perfect just the way it is, thank you very much. Michael Moriarty rules all our asses.
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Thats kinda like not having a BIG GREEN THING in the HULK.
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It'll look like a giant hairy, veiny nutsack, spreading herpes wherever it rolls.
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Rob Zombie to remake 'Terminator' & 'Transformers'- without robots!
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It wasn't the Blob.
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Aug 28, 2009 2:41:41 PM CDT
No Blob in a Blob remake... How do these people still have jobs?
by spectrebeeyatch
What is the blob going to be then? Fuck Rob Zombie hopefully after H2 bombs they will drop him.
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That's what I would do.
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Please. This man needs professional help. You only encourage him by promoting his projects.
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Aug 28, 2009 2:49:07 PM CDT
Rob Zombie to remake Star Wars, not set in space and with no war
by maxcalifornia.
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Only without the flying serpent.
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loved that movie, for its time, i thought it was great and scary! that chick from becker is in it as well.
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I liked that 80's remake with Drama and Shawnee Smith. It's another of those movies that ends with an obvious set-up for a sequel (crazy one-eyed preacher with a blob fragment in glass) that never happened. But it was pretty gruesome, even for an 80's flick. All the deaths were squirm inducing, from the kid copping the feel, to the little kid in the sewer (when was the last time we had a horror movie with gruesome onscreen melted kids?), but the best had to be the Sherriff snapped backwards in two and being pulled through the window. In fact, with that scene and his toxic waste death in Robocop, Paul McClane gave us some of the most disturbing action movie deaths I can even think of. Bit of trivia: Shawnee Smith now plays in a country band with Missi Pyle-- the alien chick that hooked up with Monk in Galaxy Quest-- called Smith & Pyle. -
a guy named Bob who lives in a trailer park.Zombie will land 15 oscar nominations and thw world will rejoice...
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Wasn't a remake. It was a sequel. A portion of the original blob was accidentally retrieved from the arctic, a couple decades later.
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Great scene. RZ if you can top the shear awesomeness of that for the finale go ahead. if not, don't bother.the vibration build up alone added so much to the badassery of that.
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Says Zombie, "I'm not really into cats, so in the movie they'll be replaced by dogs."
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Dead I am the dog, hound of hell you cry, Devil on your back, I can never die...
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Aug 28, 2009 3:38:51 PM CDT
Tyler Mane is gona play the Blob and they'll explorer it's child
by photopunisher
That's what i heard anyway...
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Lucas couldn't do it. Perhaps, Zombie can.
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Aug 28, 2009 3:48:37 PM CDT
I heard Rob Zombie's gonna remake O.Stone's WALL STREET
by mrmysteryguest
With Sid Haig as Gordon Gekko and his wife as an SEC officer!
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Aug 28, 2009 3:51:02 PM CDT
I also heard Zombie's remaking BUFFY'S entire 1st season!
by mrmysteryguest
With Danielle Harris as a naked Buffy and Tyler Mane as a really tall vampire!
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Make it crappier than Ed Wood's! :P
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Aug 28, 2009 3:54:41 PM CDT
It's like remaking STAR TREK without "the cool starship thing...
by mrmysteryguest
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off Kevin Smith's story about the director who wanted to make a non costume wearing, non flying, non super powered Superman movie. Well, it's not bloody Superman any more, is it? Maybe the ones who say it will be like T-1000 liquid metal called it right. But I got a bad feeling about this.
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"I also heard Zombie's remaking BUFFY'S entire 1st season!"
Holy mother of God, please don't give them any ideas. I could see that happening. -
"I also heard Zombie's remaking BUFFY'S entire 1st season!"
Holy mother of God, please don't give them any ideas. I could see that happening. -
A steady slow relentless expansion of microscopic machines.
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At this point, why the hell not?
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At this point, why the hell not?
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I was going to say that it's time to place the 88' Blob on the same remake pedestal as The Thing and The Fly.It will never be done but I want a sequel with the crazy preacher either letting it go or losing it somehow.
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I never knew that Frank Darabont co-wrote the screenplay for that one! Well, I'm sure Zombie's much more qualified than him.
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I want to say that I read it here a while ago.Grey goo. I can see it, but IMHO not really a 'blob' scenario. The blob is more 'the shapeless nameless horror', while grey goo is 'the destructiveness of mankind wrought upon the earth'. Or bio v. tech (I know in the remake it is artificial, but it is still alive).
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See 'Halloween 2' thread and you'll get a clear view of what the talkbackers believe this idea to be. 1.) A piece of shit 2.) A crock of shit 3.) A bag of dicks.
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Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenburg's The Fly. Although all 3 are based on '50s B movies, The Thing and The Fly carry a subtext that The Blob doesn't. The Blob is a well done remake with up to date effects work. Its basically a "monster in a small town" story thats been done over and over.BTW, in feel and small town atmosphere, I think Slither is an even better follow up to The Blob. Beside Nathan Fillion, Liz Banks, Michael Rooker, you've got Gregg Henry as the most foul mouthed mayor ever..hilarious.
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without the whole 'resurrected monster made of dead body parts'. FUCK YOU, Rob Zombie.
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A blob of semen.
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Better yet, get somebody toSHOOT ROB ZOMBIE~
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....REMAKES already! 'The Blob' circa '88 is great as has already been pointed out....just like Carpenter's 'Halloween' is. No more fucking remakes of movies that are ALREADY GOOD, for fucking fucks sake!!! Come up with something original Zombie, or at least develop someone else's concept ONLY IF it was underdeveloped in the first place.... How the fuck do projects like this STILL keep getting good money thrown at them?
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allover Sheri Moon Zombie's face. And her skeleton necklaces.
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Seven Foot Tall With a Beard. And it will say "Fuck" all the time.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:24:15 PM CDT
"That giant Jell-o thing might've been scary in the 50's"...
by cheyne_stoking_dms
Yeah, and your 'Halloween' films have no chance of being good in the 2000's.
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was beaten by a trailer trash step-dad as a kid.
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Just have the entire movies be a 15 minute one starring all of Brad Dourif's scenes and monologues and have the rest of the flicks be one big deleted scene.
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Nothing to see here.
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a Big fat stereotypical redneck. That's all he seems to write.
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the 80's version is the best!
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There goes a classic. I love both versions, and a new one makes me giddy, except for the fact that Zombie is involved. They remade it once, why remake it again, without the title character. The Blob design is a classic, and the whole reason the story works. Why mess with it???
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all the bad geek press he gets? I wonder if he gets cussed out by people when he goes to parties and restaurants? I wonder if he even reflects on the possibility that his haters might be right about him? I would just like to read a treatise written by him explaining in detail what he believes to be the cinematic merit of each dubious entry in his filmography. Except the music videos, those are okay.
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People mentioned this and I remember reading it as well that I "claimed" to be an old school horror fan, yet 2 horrible remakes-which he stated he would never make remakes! Just selling out is easier than we thought. But a blob movie with out the blob is plain stupid. I thought there was hope for Zombie after DEVIL'S REJECTS, but I see there isn't. But then again, why do people STILL go see his shit?!?! People! STOP-going to see his shit, that why the studio morons can see that he's no good and stop giving him work!! Damn! Being a movie fan is sad nowadays.
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...then we track Rob down with torches and pitch forks.
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All the love for The Blob remake. What a great little surprise of a film.
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Fuck that thing was creepy in the old MM.
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How to improve?Blob doesnt look or behave quite the same from scene to scene. Its physics, like the way it appears to move, its density and the exact way it preys and feeds on victims all change throughout the movie. On the subject of its character, you could take from the microbes and give the blob real world actions and behaviors like mitosis (easy move) or making a hardened protective cyst (better) or a chemosynthetic metabolism to eat rocks metal (barely believable) or even forming a fungoid stalk to greatly spread spores for miles (really out there). - Would unifying its 'performance' really even count as 'improving' the overall concept?Make it an alien again. Being an 80's monster movie, it has a cold war mentality. Thus, the blob is now a bio-weapons experiment gone awry. I liked the reveal in the remake that it was an experimental creature. Would making it an alien again restrict what and just how much story could be told that isn't just the same story? Same goes for the other direction and making it a non-organic 'grey goo' like above. To fight the terrorists?Making it shape shift/Making it zombie infectious. I assume that is what Zombie means by "Redblobnotscarynomore" or whatnot. Having the blob hide in the forms of the consumed seems like a natural extension of the concept. Give shape to the shapeless. Allow for a paranoia dimension a la The Thing. Giving what is just a giant amoeba or bacteria a blob-to-person into person-to-person illness is also very natural to the premise (very natural. . . I would endorse it wholeheartedly . . . just not zombiism). Should that illness create zombies melting into little blobs? - Again, is that a reason for a remake? Do those actually alter the premise too much and turn it into The Thing?Going global. Both flicks keep things comfortably within the sleepy little pacific north-west town (something AVP-R had in common that I really liked and I wondered if it was intentional) where the blob is rendered inert before it has any chance of leaving. It never becomes anything more than a 'local' problem. No emergency late night calls to the governor or FEMA. No bombing runs authorized by the president that threaten to nuke the town before Steve and Jane can escape. The remake had a federal level presence, I'm aware, but used to different effect (Wife just shut it off right before the drain scene so I could be wrong on that). Can it be allowed to leave the town and possibly threaten to 'end the world' or does the township need to stop it by freezing it? (Cold, by the way, is absolutely non-negotiable. Why? It's a fucking bag of water.) Would opening up the blobs world work or does The Blob work better in the smaller setting? Do any of these 'improve upon the concept' (well aware that I am no writer and dont think so) or would any of it come off any better then a fanfic of the property? Will
Ken Fore take a shit at some point in the film? Will a boxer clad Sid Haig and a half naked fat chick call each other increasingly dirty names in bed in the first half? Will Sherry Moon Zombie do something that will both further characterization and show me the shape of the crack of her ass? Will there be an embarrassingly complete tone-deafness to or willful ignorance of . . . oh god . . . the nature of the blob? I would love to see a remake of The Blob. But I likely wont care for it. -
Original ends with the unkillable Blob being dropped at the North Pole to say frozen, and a big question mark. Part 2, Ice cap melts, the berg flows south, blob thaws, and devours everything from Canada down, is like a tidal wave of ooze by the time it hits New York. Done. This shit writes itself.
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I never realized how funny it is towards the end when Loomis is beating Myers with a 2 by 4. Hilarious. "Diiie! Diiiie! Diiiiiiiie!"
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For continuity sake.
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didnt make it clear.Good point Skimn. No subtext.
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The 80's Blob did have a bit of a subtext: in the original 50's version the red blob embodied the 'menace from outside' (the red commies, aliens, etc.) The 80's version, meanwhile, was more cynical, with the blob being created by OUR military, so it represented the 'danger from ourselves' - our own corrupt institutions.
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...the 1972 classic 'Beware! The Blob', which was directed by Larry Hagman.
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His other films to date not just stink up the house but display a fatal misunderstanding of what makes an effective genre movie. Maybe he should stick to the noisy music stuff until he has something useful to contribute towards the movies.
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I'm not on board with this unless it's ultra-gorey.
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Holy shit. Now whenever I see him I just think hes Drama in a shitty movie.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:39:09 PM CDT
88 Blob is way better than anything Rob Zombie touches
by brodiebruce_405
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with a stripper mom?
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In this inventive re-imagining of Orson Welles' classic, Tyler Mane plays Kane, who snaps necks and hurls people through windows while 70s rock songs play, as he searches for "Rosebud", his beloved childhood chainsaw. Co-starring William Forsythe.
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maybe Zombie wants to stretch himself again and make it a comedy where Mister Blobby eats Noel Edmonds and Dez O'Connor then goes on a rampage where he can only be sedated by the music of Val Doonican.
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I'm serious. I know the film industry reeks of recycled ideas and remakes, but I'd expect more from an independent-minded lover of classic horror making horror movies. I thought this guy was supposed to be creative. Is he that embarrassed by "House of 1000 Corpses" and "Devil's Rejects"? He was on his way to carving out a signature style of filmmaking, but now he's just taking already-done ideas and rehashing those. Fuck him.
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...fucked our collective eyeballs in 1988?Damn. I haven't seen such genuine TB unity in quite some time.
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Posts like yours are what brought me to AICN in the 90s. I.E. Let's revel in the news of the moment and kick around some ideas to improve on them. Sure, we'd call each other out now and then, and harshly, yet it was often constructive.How about this? How about a military weapon experiment that was *successful* and was *contained*? One that was deployed *and* successfully extracted? And life was good. Imagine that? Has this been done on film in the last 20 years?Then, congress gets wind. Typical CYA ensues. Atty General begins to investigate. Evidence is shifted around to throw off the chase. An accident leads to inevitable. Blobby munchage ensues, etc.Yeah, I know that this doesn't hit on Hollowood's go-to punching bag, corporatism. Plus, it invites allegory to current political spin. Oh, the horror!Remember when Sci-Fi used to be heady and engaging commentary on the current status quo?
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Will Rob Zombie please stop making crap! "I want to make a blob that isn't like the one in the 50's movie." Oh, you mean like the 80's remake? You better stop making films Rob Zombie or I'll steal your pot of gold you runty leprechaun son of a bitch!!! You are terrible. Go back to music.
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the talk back is killing me keep it coming folks. Although I think Rob's comment about moving AWAY from Horror with a Blob remake is the funniest comment of all. Last time I checked, the Blob is horror.
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Anyways, the '88 Blob was pretty awesome, and capped off a decade's worth of superor remakes of 50's horror films, starting with Philip Kaufman's SUPERB Invasion Of The Body Snatchers in '78 and continuing through Carpenter's The Thing in '82 and Cronenberg's The Fly in '86. It's amazing how most of those 80's remakes have truly held up over the years.
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Who does he think he is, Ricki Lake? Big Lob needs NO makeover!
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Nerd with glasses: "It's eating her. Then it's going to eat me. Oh my Goooooooooooooooood! (fly lands on forehead)
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Maybe it is just me but I like rock n roll and some tits in my horror movies. There is a lot of hate aimed at this and I think Zombies mistake is trying to link himself to any of the past incarnations of ANY classic. If he just did his version with no comparison he would be better off. His first 2 were good. I said GOOD. Not Great. I m still pissed he never followed through with the "guys in the radiation suits digging" that was promised in the trailer for House of a 1000 corpses. Who knows how hard studio dicks fuck with his shit to make it digestible to the public. These are ALL shitty horror movies. I love that the old shitty horror movies are praised on this site as "GREAT" but the new shitty horror movies are an unholy abortion. We are talking a fun movie not a serious commentary on the human condition. Lighten up.
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Another asshole who thinks reinvention is the way to go. FUCK. He'll have us feeling sorry for the Blob's poor upbringing. ATTENTION, HOLLYWOOD MOTHERFUCKERS: The last bit of dialogue from the original Blob screams for a sequel, not a revision-- pay some fucking attention!
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This is AVP all over again. Producers are IDIOTS for putting licenses in the hands of Rob Zombie or Paul W. S. Anderson. When the people involved really don't seem to have a fucking clue about the material they're working from, and they paint themselves into the corner of masturbating an old work instead of bringing new life to an original... oh, fuck it. Bring this to a multiplex so teenagers can see it opening night and forget it the next morning.
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The budget is reported to be 18 mill so what the fuck did he spend the money on? Coke?
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Starring: Camilla Belle, Daryl Sabara, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Bill Moseley, Ken Foree, David Emge, and Leslie Esterbrook. In this "reimagining" of The Blob, the first 70 minutes will be taken up with an exploration of the Blob's down-home redneck roots, where he/it was created in a moonshine still and meth house run by Sheri Moon and Bill Moseley, who are feuding with local lawman Bill Forsythe. This portion of the film is liberally sprinkled with old '70s southern fried rock tunes and inexplicable cameos by '70s and '80s genre stars. In the last 25 minutes, one of the redneck women who's drank too much of the 'shine will give birth to a kind of CGI "blob" who will attack people. The Blob then dies to the strains of the theme song to "Moment By Moment." In slo-mo. WHO ARE THE REAL MONSTERS, ROB ZOMBIE ASKS YOU??!!
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Say what you will but I am ALWAYS shocked and jolted when the Blob suddenly kills that kid near the end of the movie. You couldn't get away with that today.
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Sixty-five minutes of Chief Brody (William Forsythe) impotent and unable to get it up for his wife (Sheri Moon), who goes to Quint (Bill Moseley) to get satisfied while Brody gets drunk, beats the kids, and goes tear-assing through Amity on the police boat with Hooper (Jeremy Davies), drunk on ripple. All to the strains of "Afternoon Delight" and "Helter Skelter." Quint's redneck family lives in his shanty with him and they, each played by a "wonderful" '70s/'80s genre star, all take a turn running a train on Ellen Brody. In the last 35 minutes, a shark shows up and these drunk yahoos go out to hunt out on a run-down oil rig, blaring Led Zeppelin on the speakers. The shark eats them all. WHO ARE THE REAL MONSTERS, AMERICA??!! TURN UP THE FOGHAT!!!
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about the non-newtonian fluid. I made some of that once and messed around with it, and I can attest to the fact that it is indeed, non-newtonian. It's pretty interesting to punch a bowl full of gooey liquid and have it turn into cement upon impact lol.
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...was also on that horrible 'Scream Queens', TV Show.
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from the 50´s original. That would be pretty cool to hear him sing: "Beware of the blob, it leaps and creeps..."
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than Zombie's '07 remake.
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till I heard zombie had seen it.
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that is all.
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Whatever happens, I hope and pray Mr. Cummings doesn't wind up turning this into another remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, like he's done with his last four films. Seriously! In fact, if you squint just right and fast-forward to the Bill Moseley scenes, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES more or less IS a shot-for-shot remake of TCM 2 with some foul-mouthed clown dude and a stripper filling in the ranks. And whatever happened to that "Dr. Satan" dude hanging out in the underground lair? Did he go back to his day job as a level boss in "Resident Evil 3: Nemesis"?
Possible ZombieBLOB scenario: in this version, we discover that the Blob is actually a disaffected alien youth living in a blob trailer park on a distant planet, mercilessly taunted by his alcoholic stepfather all day for having long hair and liking horror movies, while his supportive crack-whore blob birth-mother (voiced by Sherri Moon-Zombie) tries to nurture his sensitive, artistic side. After his blob stepfather cuts off his mullet in a beer-fueled rage, young Blob blows up his family's trailer with an M-80 wrapped in his beloved 1979 "All-Bava" issue of "Famous Monsters Of Filmland". Unfortunately, his mother was inside, and even more unfortunately, the explosion sets off a gas main that sends Blob flying through space until he reaches Earth.
Misunderstood and alone, Blob wipes out a slew of nameless, faceless victims (because Zombie usually considers these characters "excuses for great gore scenes and six minute monologues of calling each other 'fuck-faggot' and 'Ethiopian dog-dick bolos'"), but not by the expected method of sliming around and oozing over someone -- this Blob wears an AC/DC tee shirt and kills people with a specially-modified limited edition Gene Simmons bass-axe that also coverts into a killer Rat Fink El Camino. Finally, the good guys, consisting of Lee Majors as the President, Sid Haig as a "wacky scientist who calls people 'fuck-muffin'", Linda Blair as a spunky local sheriff, Kevin Dillon as the father of some kid that vaguely reminds you of the character Kevin Dillon played in the 1987 BLOB remake and a random goth girl who actually empathizes with the Blob because she gets picked on in school for walking around in a White Zombie tee shirt, join forces and trap the Blob underneath an abandoned Texas Battle amusement park. The Blob lights his skull-adorned black Zippo to see his surroundings and discovers Dennis Hopper wielding a chainsaw and leering back him from the shadows. "Remember me, fuck-muffin?" Chainsaw ROARS, FADE TO BLACK! -
Rampant consumerism and military spending rather than corporatism. Or can you even separate them like that?It's a small town, so anti-corporate themes beyond the WalMart effect, landgrabbing, and pollution wouldnt work, and none of those, besides maybe landgrabbing, really work within established limits. Stay social. A semi-blended community of native americans and white folks would work. The blob is an invasive species and in a similar way the natives view the white folks as invasive on their land. The effects of one individuals greed on the many in a small community. A riff on illegal immigration might seem like a go to, but doesnt ring true at all (unless of course the blob is, in fact, an alien . . . ba-dat-dat), because of the difference between invasion and immigration. Huh, maybe that could be a workable subtext?
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childhood trauma and meth addiction could work as well.
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So now we get re-makes of sequels that are actually not re-makes but original concepts of sequels to remakes... and now a Blob movie with no Blob? Will it have Vampires that sparkle in it? Vampires are the new Penguins... my brain hurts... I'm just gonna watch Sandra Bullock movies from now on... Oh, Sandy!
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Starring Crispin Glover, Sherri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, the guy who played Vigo in "Ghostbusters II", and of course Bill "Chop-Top" Moseley as Harry Lime. Setting: Run-down demilitarized zone in a dystopic, post-war America. Crispin Glover plays the Joseph Cotten role, an author of "Tijuana bibles" who must come to the zone to search for his old pal Harry while banging the local girl Mrs. Zombie, who loves to fuck while watching old Beta tapes of "My Little Pony." Score made up of zither-by-way-of-White-Zombie. Harry Lime has been trading with the roving "hellbilly" biker games and selling unsuspecting children flesh-eating viruses and roofies to rape their women. At the end, he's eaten by mutated sewer rats to the strains of Nightwish. Featuring cameos by Karen Black, Paul Williams, Sybil Danning, David Hess, Tom Atkins, and the fat kid from "Burnt Offerings," all for no good goddamn reason.
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"After his blob stepfather cuts off his mullet in a beer-fueled rage, young Blob blows up his family's trailer with an M-80 wrapped in his beloved 1979 "All-Bava" issue of "Famous Monsters Of Filmland"...his Blob wears an AC/DC tee shirt and kills people with a specially-modified limited edition Gene Simmons bass-axe that also coverts into a killer Rat Fink El Camino." You win, sir. I must step it up. Game on.
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..but don't laugh, cause before you know it "Rombie" just might bring his interpetation of Jaws (based on your clever scenario, of course) to fruition.Make sure you sue for Writer's credts,residuals,royalties and all that other bullshit. XD
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Now, I'd pay to see THAT.
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Well, to his credit Zombie is right about the Blob losing its scare appeal over the years; what he forget to mention however is: no matter how you spin it, change it, or remake it the Blob isn't going to frighten anyone with a full set of chromosomes. The Blob is a classic for a reason, and doesn't need to be stalked around by Zombies camera hungry wife. To pay for his sins I think Rob should let John Carpenter front White Zombie for two entire tours, allowing him to use a shotgun as a mic stand so that he can aimlessly take out fans that paid good money to sit right up front.
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Carpenter gets to cream-pie Sherri Moon on stage, in all of her unwashed holes, then turns the shotgun on her in front of a sold out stadium, to the song dragula.
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the entire 1988 remake of "The Blob" on youtube here at work! It really is an underrated classic. Rob Zombie, keep your white trash fingers off "The Blob."
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Will Chris Pine play T. J. Hooker? why not? Will the new T. J. Hooker spends the entire movie screentime getting punched in the face by everybody and their grannies?If you are going to fuck up the legacy of William Shatner's famous TV characters, why not fuck up T. J. Hooker as well. And next year, Chris Pine fucks up the character of Danny Crane in a TV remake of Boston Legal. Why the fuck not?
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Aug 29, 2009 8:22:11 AM CDT
For the record, i really liked Rob Zombie's two first movies
by asimovlives
I really liked House Of 1000 Corpses (much to my suprise), and i really really enjoyed The Devil's Rejects and i'll defend that movie to kingdom come. And contrary to the groupthink about Zombie's Halloween remake, there are plenty of good directorial job moments done in that mvoie, with the attack and murder by beating by Meyers to the school bully and the entire segment of young Meyers at the asylum beign the strongest moments of Rob Zombie's carrer as a filmmaker. People who dismiss those moments just because they have a pet beef on the guy are just nonsense fanboys of the type that shit on the George Lucas's Star Wars whole prequels on principle without much of a though to it. And i don't abide to that type of groupthinking bullshit. Fuck that shit.
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"Rob Zombie's two first movies" didn't come right, did it?
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"35 looked too glossy" blaa blaa blaaa" "this looks grittier!" blaa blaa bollocks! fuck off ya bearded twat!!!!
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The guy is trying to NOT produce the same horrid crap that comes out of Hollywood studios. I would rther have the likes of him and Eli Roth attempt to do something different than another piece of garbage Dimension sequel or PG-13 horror flick. As far as THE BLOB goes. Do you really think he just wakes up and says, "Hey, I'm gonna remake a 1950's horror flick." Don't be so naive. He was offered the job and he's taking it. His films come in under budget, on time and make a profit. I'm, but to pick on him when you have hacks out there making even bigger Hollywood failures, then getting hired again and again. Come on. Face it, internet critics. Your words of contempt really amount to nothing. Why do you think Robert Rodriguez has been able to have the career he has. It is not because his films are terribly good, but they are made for little (compared to Hollywood standards) and more than enough money back. And remember, guys. The theatrical release is just primer for everything else: DVD, Bluray, cable, internet streaming, etc. Studios make money far beyond the theatrical release of a film.
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about a film starring Harry
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Well, I haven't seen harry in the months since his surgery. He may not qualify anymore, or much longer for that matter.
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oh, so they're gonna cast Paula Dean as the Blob... good choice!
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Some of us like 16mm over HD. Get over it, you fat shit.
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... the Blob will eat Talkbackers.
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Into a filmmaker with talent
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Without all those stupid Hobbits, dragons, Giant Spiders and that Pussy Gollum. It's gonna be Zombiefied! Jar Jar AssimovLives predicts good things shall come of this.
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Aug 29, 2009 12:16:32 PM CDT
If you have to use old properties in name only to get your films
by kevred
...maybe it's a sign that your ideas aren't appealing.Zombie's had enough films made by now, and presumably achieved enough financial success, to be able to do original stuff. Why all the scrap-the-original remakes?
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to defend losers like Zombie and Eli Roth)
"Name me all those wonderful AMERICAN horror movies of the past 5 years, hell even 10 years. I'm just not sure what all of you are using as a comparison."
Who cares if they're American? Is that just your way to make sure no one brings up the recent influx of stellar French and Japanese horror movies that shit all over Zombie and Roth? Hell, tongue-in-cheek movies like Behind the Mask, Hatchet, Jack Brooks, and the first Feast are solidly more entertaining than Zombie's garbage. All the people that justify those two making horror films are people who have no understanding of the genre. It's always, "They're doing something other than PG-13 stuff! Yay blood, yay tits, yay saying fuck every three seconds." It must be kind of demoralizing to look at a movie like Drag Me to Hell and realize a PG-13 movie captured more of the spirit of horror in one film than all the rednecks and bullshit Rob Zombie's crammed into four. -
Read a interview with Rob. He knows what he's talking about. Yet this does not transpire to film.
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... the 1988 version scared the shit out of me. One scene that stands out is when the blob wraps itself around that phone booth. You could see body parts and eyeballs from previous victims floating around inside it. Creepy shit.
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Gee, I seem to remember another filmmaker once shooting a feature film on 16mm and blowing it up to 35mm for its theatrical release. Oh, that's right, it was Tobe Hooper and the movie was called "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE"! Wow, talk about coincidence! Only, I think they shot TCM on 16mm due to budgetary constraints, rather than "making it gritty". Let it go now, Mr. Cummings. Let it go.
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All crack all the time.
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Damn it! i`m on the recieving end of some classic aicn talk-back wit! fuck me! i shall never post again!!
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Yopur lame ass joke proves without a shadow of a doubt you haven't a clue about me and how i think. Figures.
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I would pay money to watch that movie. I would imagine in my mind that all those rednecks bweing killed by the Blob had voted for George W. Bush twice and are still unrepented about that. That would be a whole load of fun. Go Blob go! Maketh it so, Rob Zombie!
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I leave this nasty blob in the toilet. I flush quickly and pray that the blob never comes back. Unfortunately, it does. If Zombie needs a consultant for this flick then I am the man.
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In a breakout role.
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. . . of the theme song.
"Beware of the blob, it creeps . . ." -
Do you hold TJ Hooker up as some kind of artistic pinnacle? It was a shitty, tongue in cheek, '80's cop show with the *other* hot Heather on TV. If anything can use a comedic take with the lead character getting repeatedly punched in the face, it's TJ Hooker. This has Will Ferrell written all over it.
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The Blob will be raised in a trailer listening to Aerosmith and Kiss. The Blob's step-father (a cameo by the 1950's Blob) will smoke and drink a lot and drop a lot of F-Bombs and remind The Blob that he's no good and he's going to amount to "nuthin'", until new Blob snaps and goes on a murerous killing spree with Sherri Moon Zombie in a tricked out Cadillac.
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He just writes the most vapid, off the top of his head shit. I read the review for Holloween 2 where two hillbilly medics discuss fucking corpses. Imagine the hot dog line in "The Happening" stretched out over a two hour period and that's the ENTIRETY of dialogue in Rob Zombie movies. Just the most nonsensical shit. And the movies themselves? Holy shit, is Rob Zombie aiming for an Ed Wood biopic to be done on him when he's dead? Wait, Ed Wood is Martin fucking Scorsese compared to this douche. Sheri Moon Zombie on the other hand - I'd tear that up if she didn't charge too much.
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But with no "Wolfman's got nards" scene.
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that might be okay. I'd rather Zombie do something with the Dr. Satan character from 1000 Corpses. The problem with 70's slashers is they're formulaic. But Zombies' music became just that. I'd really rather see his original ideas come through. Like El Superbeasto as a live action and not a limited animation. It looks too much like Cool World without Brad Pitt. Stick to your guns Rob and stop with the covers!
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those have already been run into the ground so there's nowhere else to go but up with those.
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A white trash redneck (Tyler Mane) travels back in time to stop a white trash redneck robot (William Forsythe) from raping a white trash girl (generic 18 year old willing to take her top off). The Terminator can only say one word : Fuck. He says it 584 times. It ends with the hero killing the Terminator, and he decides to rape the girl anyway, becoming his own father, so he rapes himself. The end.
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why not just re-release the originals in 3D? About $9 million per film to convert and and 12-18 months to do. That makes more sense then remaking the fuckers by wanna-be directors. Poltergeist in 3D would be fucking cool rather then a new version coming out.
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The stuff put me off of yogurt for life. And the blob well I hate jello. Amazingly enough movies like those effected me for life. OF course I saw them both when I was a preteen, teen. And yes Zombie movies are not good. I tried to watch the 1,000 corpses movie and stopped 10 minutes in. Hey I gave it a shot. But it was just cringe worthy, the bad dialogue and worse acting. Mind you his wife is hot.
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Am I the only person that actually liked it? It was a great independent horror film that had that special Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2 charm. I really want to see a Dr. Satan movie that takes place right after House ended.
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the Werewolf Women of the SS trailer shows us that Zombie still has something creative in him. He needs to lose the white trash theme and stop remaking classics.
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Well, the Latest Blob-Like- Creature, that I know is the D-Reaper ftom Digimon Tamers, and that produced some Organisms, that were still connected to the Main-Body by strings.
But I really can't see a remake with the name-giving Blob in it.
The next thing would be, thathis Blob get's friendly, resulting in Morph from Treasure Planet. -
was fuckin' spectacular in the theater. would make an excellent 3D conversion
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I wouldn't want to kiss that knowing she probably just gave Rob a BJ.
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Maybe if Rob Zombie remade a Michael Bay movie it would turn into a thing of GENIUS!!!!
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I just had the thought of a chick giving a zombie a bj.
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It hurts when you die. The only thing that makes us feel better is HEEEEEEAAAAD!"
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I was making a joke about Chris Pine's poor job as a new Kirk (get it, Shatner played both Kirk and T.J. Hooker?). Though i don't blame him for the failure, he was just doing what his clueless director told him to do.
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A euphemism for fucking a bag of antlers.
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Instead of the large blobby thing, he's probably thinking of another new spin on the traditional zombie genre....rampaging women fuelled with anger-like 28days later meets the stepford wives. ('On the blob' being an english slang term for 'ladies problems')
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'On The Blob'..all set in Victorian England..it's a period movie!
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The jello-monster really WAS scary. Unthinking, unfeeling, existing only to feed, it grabs you and dissolves you, adding to it's mass. I just saw the 80s remake only a few months ago and found it fun and creepy. Great monster movie. Rob Zombie can eat a bowl of dicks.
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Aug 30, 2009 10:18:04 AM CDT
I'm remaking Godzilla...without Godzilla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by crackerfarmboy
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You are not alone, i enjoyed that movie quite a lot too, much to my suprise. I also had read the mostly negative reactions for the movie, and when i finaly watched it, i couldn't even begin to understand where the negativity came from. And then Rob Zombie improved exponencially with The Devil's Rejects.And let me tell you this, while i think that it was a bad call for Rob Zombie to take the remake of Halloween, in the end the man actually made at least an half good movie. In fact, directingwise the movie is quite very well made. And the negative reactions from the geeks are totally out of proportion.
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Aug 30, 2009 1:26:10 PM CDT
cheyne_stoking_DMS, GIVING HEAD TO THE LIVING DEAD!!!
by carlthormark1978
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Rob Zombie To Remake A MOVIE Without ' ...any discernable talent!!
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I've read many of your posts, so I respect your opinion as an objective viewer, but when it comes to the Zombie remake of Halloween, I think you're way off base. The Zombie had no idea what made Carpenter's classic so scary, and It's clearly visible in his work.
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What are you people are watching?
by Muzzle Aug 28th, 2009
12:15:48 PM
I have liked every one of Zombie's movies. DR was fantastic, that's right...fantastic. I'm not sure if you people sound more like pathetic film critics or uber fans of Transformers 2. Either way, I just don't get all the hate for this guy.
Name me all those wonderful AMERICAN horror movies of the past 5 years, hell even 10 years. I'm just not sure what all of you are using as a comparison.
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1.Slither
2.Teeth
3.Midnight Meat Train
4.The Ruins
5.The Mist
Cram that up your ass pipe Muzzle
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Gets turned into a mermaid. Only part of House of 1000 Corpses worth watching
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without making music for years. This is just an extension of that particular artistic movement I guess.The last thing Rob did that was worth a fuck was La Sexorsisto..., everything since then has been derivative, repetitive, over hyped, and hackneyed. His "music"? The same riff and vocal style over and over and over. His Movies are boring, sex and violence for sex and violence sake isn't refreshing..its pandering to teenaged boys who have been turned down by every girl in school.Oh, and his "art"? He really outta be making royalty payments to Big Daddy Ed Roths estate...cuz thats where he ripped that shit off from.
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there are 1000's of filmmakers way more talented than he is who will never get a shot and that is a fucking shame.
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I think this is the worst idea since making a T.J. Hooker movie.
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...wash your mouth out with soap. The Car is one of the great under appreciated classics of the 70s. And when they remake one of those (Black Christmas, for one terribly awful example) the remake tends to become "the film" in most folks' minds. As a fellow lover of James Brolin's greatest starring vehicle (made a little funny) please join with me and chant "forget this movie was ever made" in the direction of Hollywood. Three times a day. I'll bring the mats.
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...I watched Zombie's Halloween for the second time just this weekend. And there are some individual scenes that work. There are some really nicely composed shots, too, most of them street shots during the later Haddonfield sequence. But that doesn't change the fact that Zombie got his hands on one of the greatest film monsters, implacable murder incarnate, a shark in human skin, and turned it into a not very compelling example of something we've seen a hundred times since the original Halloween (or Bay of Blood, for those of you who insist) ushered in the era of the preternatural killer. Zombie missed and threw away what made Halloween what it was, and he didn't replace it with something original. He replaced it with something you can see in the original Boogey Man through the horrible remake of Black Christmas. That's a failure. And it wasn't a technical success either, because he never achieves suspense or tension. He didn't bother getting the audience to know or like his victims because he spent more than half his movie building a character for Michael which the movie doesn't want or need and which isn't meaningfully different than those of countless other cinematic killers.
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...good recent horror, maybe check out End of the Line, Mulberry Street, Behind the Mask, Parasomnia, Ekusute, Infection, Frontiers, Ils, From Within or even Trailer Park of Terror, if you need a trailer park with your scares. Just off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing some of the best.
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Aug 30, 2009 8:39:53 PM CDT
Red Ned Lynch, THE CAR IS A REALLY GOOD LITTLE MOVIE....
by carlthormark1978
Nothing spectacular but I have the urge to watch it once in a while. It sure as fuck is better then anything Zombie has done.
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...brother CarlThorMark1978. Twice a year at a minimum. The scene at Brolin's girlfriend's house is just classic.
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His movies build well enough, but they always go to shit in the 3rd act.
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A blob that's not a 'red blobby thing'? Been done. The awful Japanese film H-MAN.
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First off, I never mentioned anything about Eli Roth. Secondly, the fact that you really couldn't give an answer to my question shows to me that I may be right. and lastly, you wrote "Hell, tongue-in-cheek movies like Behind the Mask, Hatchet, Jack Brooks, and the first Feast are solidly more entertaining than Zombie's garbage." LMFAO, I hope this was your attempt at humor. I'm not sure why Zombie has become a fanboy's whipping boy favorite, but I think a lot of it is unwarranted.
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Hatchet was horrible! BEHIND THE MASK is very underrated.
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Chuck Russell' remake of THE B LOD was not red, not a round blobby thing really. It was a nasty creature. THE BLOD remake does not get enough credit. And it has Shawnee Smith, hell yeah.
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Rob Zombie's Blob VS. F-bomb luvin' white trash! The Blob envelops and consumes hundreds of trailers! THE BIG PLOT TWISTING REVEAL: The Blob is made of imitation SPAM and imitation red Kool-Aid...bought with foodstamps! The inhabitants of the trailer park caused their own demise! THE IRONY!
Halloween 2 VS. THE Final Destination (part 4 in 3D)
An old friend and I made a double feature out of Final Destination 4 in 3D followed by Halloween 2. Both matinees. Why studios would pit two R-rated horror movies against each other in their opening weekend, I’ll never know. R-rated horror is already a dying genre, and competition against itself is foolish. Nobody wins. More PG-13 spooky, but not scary, crap gets made.
Below are my brief, SPOILER-FREE reviews. If you don’t want to read them…in short, both movies are OK for what they are. I would recommend going to see either movie over any PG-13, spooky crap any day. Don't get me wrong. PG-13 horror stories have their place. They make great 20 minute TV shows like "Tales from the Darkside" or "Monsters".
I went in knowing Final Destination 4 in 3D was all about the 3D gags and gore. I did enjoy it for those gags. They were gross and popped off the screen. The finale could have been a lot cooler than it was, and it was far too short. Final Destination 2 still has the best executed, most original deaths. This was a close 2nd in that category. 3-D played a big part. The original Final Destination remains the best story. This new movie has many pretty actors that are better at being pretty than acting. But for this kind of movie, it kinda strangely works. They’re all just attractive cannon fodder. It’s like watching a warped Abercrombie ad where the models die. It’s an OK movie for anyone who likes 3-D and the Final Destination series. Not for everyone.
As weird as it was, I enjoyed Zombie’s Halloween 2 more than Zombie’s first Halloween. It’s no longer a movie remaking a superior movie. It’s an original sequel. (Is that phrase an oxymoron?) The kills are brutal, and the story is way out there. Is it better than John Carpenter’s original Halloween? No, not even close. Is it better than the original Halloween 2? (of which it is not a remake of) I would say maybe, marginally: Yes. I would say the same when comparing to Halloween 5 and 6, just marginally, debatably better. It’s way better than Halloween 6 (Curse of Michael Meyers), part 7 (H20), and part 8 (Resurrection). Definitely not for anyone who is not a fan of the slasher genre.
And a message to Rob Zombie...I'm a fan of the F word. It's great when lightly sprinkled like pepper on my mac & cheese. It's ridiculous when poured on in giant heaps. It just makes characters sound ignorant. Maybe that's what you're going for...IN EVERY F-ING MOVIE!!! -
Sep 01, 2009 4:53:22 PM CDT
Rob Zombie to remake KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
by royston lodge
Actually, now that I think about it, this idea actually makes sense...
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Sep 01, 2009 5:32:57 PM CDT
Zombie to remake "Blade Runner" puts in "More Human Than Human"
by mrmysteryguest
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big words from teenagers in their parents basements.first his remakes of halloween and the sequal
were pretty origonal.what he did is not make the exact same flicks and his first two movies where awsome. second the blob was not scary at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the origonal and the remake. none of you fuckers no anything about horror movies or how to make one saying that the blob is scarey really come on you are all a bunch of pussies get a life . let the man make the movie. go and see it then make up your minds. are you people that fuckin stupid the judge a movie before its even made and on the basis of some comment he made come on get a fuckin life you all should stick to what you no best that is jerking off to internet porn you make me sick. assholes
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