Sequel to Rob Zombie's Halloween.......

[T.ROSS]

Back in a news report from June of this year, word got out that French director's Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury were in talks to helm HALLOWEEN 2, the sequel to Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN remake. Now, the director's themselves have commented about the upcoming flick in the pages of Rue Morgue magazine according to SHOCK.

Maury says, "it's a proposition we couldn't refuse." (From the SHOCK post:) He explains they're reverent of Zombie's re-imagining of Michael Myers and they're out to put their stamp on the character not copy what came before them. "Therefore, our vision will be done with upmost respect, with a continuity of [Zombie's] work but also a real evolution of the world he set in place."

Have you guys seen INSIDE yet? The flick these 2 crazy bastards made? It's by far one of the most brutal and bloody movies that this writer has seen in years, so the idea of these guys making a Michael Myers flick is intriguing. We would assume that Scout Taylor-Compton would return as Laurie Strode. Rumor has it that Tyler Mane (Michael Myers) and Malcolm McDowell (Dr. Sam Loomis) signed sequel contracts when they signed on to the first film. September's issue of Rue Morgue magazine will have the full interview with the director duo. More when we hear it!


I did not write this article, but wanted to share.  Here is the link....


http://iconsoffright.com/news/2008/08/first_word_from_directors_on_h.html


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[Sheridan Passell]

Halloween isn't "brutal and bloody", there isn't a single drop of blood in the first movie. It's an eerie suspense piece. Looks like they're going to fuck it up again.

[Tyler Lovemark]

^ Agreed.  I didn't find the sequel suspenseful at all, and I felt the entire first half was wasted as any empathy or humanizing they did to Meyers was immediately tossed out the window once he started rampaging again.

I can suspend my disbelief and go with the premise that the killer never stops and is almost mythological in nature, I can even go with the premise that the killer has human qualities and a soul (or at least had for a good chunk of the movie).  But melding these two just did not work.

[DejayBahl]

The Halloween remake is a different vision on the first movie.  You could almost call it entirely different, and Rob Zombie didn't fuck it up.  The original was mostly suspense and no blood, which is mostly pyschological.  The remake has some of that pyschological suspense but it delivers very well on the physical manifestation of "evil".  I liked it

[T.ROSS]

I am siked for another Michael myers installment, you cant kill off Michael!

In the words of Doctor Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence),

"Evil never dies"

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[The Movie Whore]

I enjoyed Rob's version but it was the lack of blood and gore that detracted form the original franchise. The trick will be to see if they can balance blood and story. Not many can or do so here is to hoping.