The movie industry hates me

Sigh! I am trying not to be angry about Rob Zombie writing and directing Halloween 2, but I just can't help it. It just bothers me so much that he (an alleged fan of the original films) thinks he can better the franchise. The whippersnappers and gorehounds really seemed to like his version of Halloween. Even though I consider myself a slasher fan, the bloodlessness of the original is one of its strong points. There is nothing fast-paced about John Carpenter's film. There are no quick cuts. There are no loving close-ups of gaping wounds. Okay, I've gone on too much about this already. I bitch and complain, but you know I'm gonna see it anyway...probably in the theatre even though that's all expensive and shit.

I do have a couple of remakes I am actually looking forward to. One of them is a remake of My Bloody Valentine which is an awesome Canadian horror film from the early 80s. The 2009 version is going to be in 3D which is AWESOME (hopefully) and it stars Tom Atkins. It also features Kerr Smith who was in one of the worst horror movies (The Forsaken, because The Lost Boys wasn't the first movie about pretty vampires and Twilight probably won't be the last) I've ever seen, but I will overlook that.

I'm also kind of excited for the Friday the 13th remake. This series isn't as close to my heart as Michael or Freddy (and I will have to rant on that in a little bit), so I kind of don't care about them remaking it. I kind of like that they are ditch the real killer of the original and going straight for the Jason. The movie looks very much like every other recent horror film with really loud music and flashy quick cuts, but I guess I'll have to suffer.

On to the news of an Elm Street remake withOUT Robert Englund as Freddy. Um, good luck with that but I don't know how you can pull that off. Robert Englund IS Freddy. As the guys from It Came from the Basement mentioned in a recent podcast, the filmmakers can't just slap any old stuntman into make-up like with most other movie killers. They seem to think it has to be a NAME actor in the role. They even suggest Johnny Depp since you know he's already been in two Elm Street movies (which he isn't embarrassed about unlike some now-famous people who started out in horror films). Apparently there were rumors that Billy Bob Thornton would play the role. I think a name actor would take too much focus off the story. I like my horror movies with a bunch of unknown actors who will either go on to big things and not include their horror debuts on their resumes or will keep making the same sort of movies for eons to come becoming SciFi staples.