I
encourage you to read the full article and watch the vid clips
at MTV, but here's a recap summary of the biggest news breakers
[Fair warning! Some plot spoilers may follow so
read on at your own risk]:
- Rob
confirms that while Young Michael Myers does speak as a
child, The Shape remains a silent-but-deadly killer as he
stalks Laurie Strode and the unfortunate victims in his
path
- Given
that Michael has grown up in Smith's Grove Sanitarium, and
indeed none of the staff "gave him lessons," the
Adult Michael does not know how to drive. So
he won't be stealing a station wagon from Nurse Chambers
to cruise the streets for Laurie and her friends
- Young
Michael owns the Shape mask as a kid — apparently
he's into masks from an early age. As you've
seen from photos of Adult Michael released by Rob, the Shape
mask is dirty and torn . . . because Michael buried the
mask in his youth and dug it up to assume the persona of
the Shape when he returns to Haddonfield to hunt Laurie
- The
final-third climax of the film with the Shape pursuing Laurie
is set in a contemporary time frame, with the Young Michael
story opening the film about a decade and a half earlier
- And
perhaps the biggest bombshell of the interview — Rob
said he will not be reprising the infamous theme music created
by John Carpenter for the 1978 original! The article
quotes Rob to say, "The plan was at some point to [remake
it], to change it around," Zombie said, revealing that
it has since been shelved. "The actual way it sounds
now doesn't really work with what we're doing."
No doubt this will disappoint some fans, but the change
is very consistent with Rob's breakaway approach to making
his HALLOWEEN as a stand-alone reimagining
of the entire Michael Myers story.
As
you read the full article for more details, be sure to watch
the sidebar clips for your first on-video look at actor Brad
Dourif as Sheriff Brackett, Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Loomis,
and Tyler Mane as the maskless man behind Michael Myers.
Fans,
let this article prepare you for the story and thematic challenges
Rob will boldly present as Rob forges his new HALLOWEEN
and unleashes it on theaters this August. There is no
doubt that Zombie's rethinking of this horror classic will
expand Michael's role in the tale, filling in gaps left unanswered
in Carpenter's original film plus exploring new plot points
which will not doubt take HALLOWEEN entirely
out of fans' comfort zones of familiar expectation.
Given
the long, troubled and occasionally very misguided legacy
of sequels made over the past two decades, the only way to
make HALLOWEEN a real horror film in the
truest sense is to start over with a defibrillating jolt just
to get the story's bloody heart beating again.
So
clear your minds of what you think you know about HALLOWEEN,
because Rob Zombie is charging those paddles now — and
if you don't approach this film with an open mind, prepare
for the shock of your life!
Visit
MTV.com to read and watch the new
on-set HALLOWEEN interview with Rob Zombie now online.
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