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Rob Zombie‘s remake or reimagining, if you will, of the horror classic Halloween II opens in theaters this weekend … timed perfectly with the news that Zombie has signed on to remake/reimagine the even older horror classic 1958 film The Blob (click HERE to watch the original movie trailer for the original film). Considering that I have yet to see what he did with Halloween II (tho, I deffo hope to find out this weekend) and only marginally liked what he did with Halloween, I’ll reserve judgment … for now. Zombie claims that he plans to revamp the Blob monster for his film … I have to admit, I’m curious to see what he comes up with:

After reviving the “Halloween” franchise, Rob Zombie will next reinvent “The Blob.” Zombie will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic that launched the career of Steve McQueen. Production will begin next spring. Zombie’s deal to make “The Blob” his next film comes as Dimension opens “Halloween II,” the Zombie-directed sequel to his 2007 hit “Halloween.” In the original “Blob,” an object from space crashes into a field, containing a red blob-like substance that absorbs the humans it contacts and grows exponentially. While Zombie was a fan of the original, he’s formulated a decidedly different take that he would not reveal. “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” … Saperstein, the former Dimension Films president who developed a relationship with Zombie while they worked on “Halloween,” said that funding is in place to make an R-rated film that will cost around $30 million. The budget model is similar to that of recent fright fare like “Cloverfield” and “District 9,” and they expect to firm a distribution deal before production begins. Genre Co. is in pre-production on the independently financed, Darren Bousman-directed remake “Mother’s Day.” “I’d been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space,” Zombie said. “I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to.” Zombie has begun writing. He’ll follow the release of “Halloween II” with a new album and tour this fall and get the script done at that time.

Blah. I dunno. While I do agree that a straight reinterpretation of the original film would be comical in this day and age (I seem to recall the 1988 remake of The Blob was ill-received at the box office), I’m not sure I’m too confident that any sort of Blob monster will be scary. My guess is that Zombie will go for gore more than horror … which doesn’t sound all that appealing to me. Still … I’m intrigued. I deffo want to see Halloween II so that I can have a better opinion of Rob Zombie‘s remaking skills.

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