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 Rob Zombie
Interview By: Michael Dance It was only a few years ago that Rob Zombie was best known for his successful heavy metal career, both as a solo act and as the frontman for White Zombie until the group broke up in 1998. Now, though, Zombie is probably best known for his career as a film director, in which he's made a name for himself revitalizing the horror genre with only two movies: House of 1000 Corpses and its critically acclaimed spin-off The Devil's Rejects. After the success of Rejects, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino invited him to direct a fake movie trailer that would be shown in the middle of their Grindhouse double-feature. While Grindhouse didn't end up being a money-maker, many people thought the fake trailers -- Zombie's fantastically-named Werewolf Women of the SS, and others by Eli Roth and Edgar Wright -- where the best part of the experience. Now, Zombie has his first shot at mainstream filmmaking with the remake/re-imagining of John Carpenter's classic horror film Halloween for The Weinstein Company. Luckily we were able to talk a bit with the surprisingly polite and soft-spoken filmmaker. "The first time Halloween came up, I wasn't interested at all," Zombie says. "You know? Originally they just said, well we have this thing, and I didn't know whether it'd be a sequel or a prequel or what. I think if I had told them, well, what if it's Michael Myers in space fighting Predator? Then they would be like, yeah!" It turns out, though, that he had plenty of legitimate ideas on how to make the prequel work. "I thought let's make him the lead character, instead of Laurie Strode, and just make everything secondary to Michael Myers." That involved developing an elaborate backstory for the serial killer, in which we finally witness his origins. "I didn't want him to have a really terrible childhood," Zombie says, noting that he didn't want to make any excuses for him, because when it comes down to it, "he's just evil." Besides, that makes the character retain his mystique. "I think the movie stuck around -- because the movie was awesome -- and because the character was so simple," he says. "He just seemed timeless. A lot of times they forget and they try to make these characters so over the top, and it just doesn't work. Like, Freddy Kruger is just this burnt guy in a striped sweater, which seems so dumb, but it totally works." So fans should rest assured that we still get a crazy guy in a weird mask and a mechanics outfit. Still, that didn't stop him from adding some stylistic touches: "I did want to dirty [Michael Myers] up. It bothered me how clean he was. It was the world's cleanest mechanic's outfit." He laughs. Another big challenge of the ... |
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