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A Blob Remake Might Actually Be Cool

BuzzSugar — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:30:50 -0700

The idea of remaking The Blob with modern filmmaking technology is actually pretty interesting. It's almost funny to go back and watch the original 1958 movie with its now-outdated special effects, so visually this remake has some potential.

The thing about this Blob remake news that's not so cool? Rob Zombie is the director taking it on. Having "reimagined" the first and second Halloween movies, Zombie is tackling this remake, which will cost around $30 million and will be R-rated. About the project, Zombie says:

My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing - that's the first thing I want to change. That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now. 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. 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.

I'll be curious to find out with what Zombie plans to replace the "big red blobby thing" in the movie titled The Blob, but at the very least, I'm hoping this remake will have some neat effects. Can you see a Blob remake working in this day and age?

Continue or Kill: The Halloween Movies

BuzzSugar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:30:34 -0700

These days if the Hollywood bigwigs aren't remaking something, they're tacking on more sequels to an existing franchise. Franchises are getting reboots and TV shows are being brought back to life with all new casts. Sometimes it can be a good thing (Star Trek) but certain ideas probably should have been killed (cough! 90210 cough!). So, instead of lamenting remake or reboot ideas right off the bat, I thought I'd put it to a vote.

Last year Rob Zombie released his remake/reimagining of John Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween, which itself had spawned a whole line of sequels. This Friday we'll see another Rob Zombie remake, this time of the original first sequel to Halloween (got all that?). The 1978 movie is probably my favorite scary film to watch on Halloween itself but I'm not a fan of Zombie's remake, and I'm not so sure we needed a remake of a sequel to Halloween.

What do you think? Are you still interested in the Michael Myers character? Or should we finally lay this slasher film series to rest?

Buzz News Roundup, 12/17

BuzzSugar — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:30:36 -0800

Jesse Eisenberg and Pushing Daisies' Anna Friel are set to star together in the romantic comedy The Wedding. - The Hollywood Reporter
Jessica Alba and Cloris Leachman are the newest guest stars for the post-Super Bowl episode of The Office. - TV Guide
Olivia Wilde has landed the female lead in Disney's Tron sequel. - Variety
Four Christmases director Seth Gordon will direct the comedy Mr. Romance. - ComingSoon
Taylor Swift bested Britney Spears in album sales this week. - Billboard
Lionsgate has acquired screen rights to Loving Frank, a historical novel about architect Frank Lloyd Wright. - Variety
Oprah's production company will produce films and documentaries exclusively for HBO starting in 2009. - New York Times
BBC America will air the Life on Mars sequel Ashes to Ashes starting in March. - Broadcasting and Cable
Jennifer Lopez will star in the movie Plan B as a single woman who becomes pregnant via artificial insemination only to meet Mr. Right. - E! Online
Rob Zombie will definitely write and direct the next Halloween movie. - ComingSoon

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Halloween: Boring and Predictable

BuzzSugar — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:00:31 -0700

I'm trying to figure out who will sincerely enjoy this newest spin on the Halloween movies, created by Rob Zombie. Surely, some dudes will like the naked girls - some of whom get slashed and brutalized whilst naked because, you know, that's hot. Meanwhile, there is absolutely no male nudity because that would be "gay," I guess. But as far as horror films go, this one lacks suspense almost entirely, relying on loud noises to make you jump and an extraneously high body count without any kind of intriguing lead up to the murders. So, if you think senseless violence is cool and can endure almost two hours of shrill screaming, then you may enjoy this pointless version of Halloween.

Purportedly, this version is supposed to be a kind of remake of the first Halloween movie while also providing some back story on the young, disturbed Michael Meyers who became a ruthless killer on account of both his crazy little mind and his trashy upbringing. After some general bullying at school on account of his mother being a stripper, little f-ed up Michael Meyers graphically beats the snot out of one of his schoolyard tyrants. I guess he finds this to his liking because he then goes on to off most of his family and his sister's boyfriend. He spares his mother and baby sister for unexplained reasons (except that he's just so demented, see?). That's not all there is to this "madness," though, so read more

Psychopath Michael Meyers is sent to an institution where he meets the kindly Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) who tries to help him, but gives up on Michael after fifteen years. By the fifteen year mark, Michael is a giant who doesn't talk and spends his time making papier-mache masks for his face. That Halloween, the institution's guards decide to move the noiseless giant who swiftly demonstrates his superhuman strength (mask-making builds muscles like you would not believe) and goes on a killing spree, trying to get to his baby sister. Despite all traces of her life as a Meyers child being wiped from the books, Michael somehow tracks her down and kills or traumatizes all the people in her life before finally reaching her.

The satisfying thing about the first Halloween movie, toward which Zombie makes several nods in his film without actually achieving the first movie's success, is how tense it is with terrible things that may or may not happen. When a monstrous, bloodthirsty he-man just gruesomely murders everyone in his path - and nobody has even the slightest chance of survival against him - it's not so much suspenseful as it is biding one's time until the body count includes the entire cast. The tidbits of information on Michael Meyers' childhood are not interesting enough to make the movie worthwhile. Simply put, it's boring.

Photos courtesy of The Weinstein Company

Movie Preview: Halloween

BuzzSugar — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0700

It feels way early to be watching the trailer for Rob Zombie's Halloween, but there are only a few weeks left before the horror/thriller hits theaters.

Opening August 31, Halloween tells the story of Mike Meyers' break from the mental institution that has held him since the age of 10, and his bloody quest to find his little sister.

The trailer is effectively scary, though again, it's confusing to see this in the heat of the summer. You can watch the trailer and let me know what you think if you read more