WTF? Rob Zombie wants to remake THE BLOB without a BLOB!
After f__king up John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN with two crappy and bizarre remakes, rocker turned hack film director, Rob Zombie wants destroy my fond childhood memories of one of my favorite films of all time by remaking the 50's sci-fi classic THE BLOB. But what was good for generations of movie goers isn't good enough for Zombie because he's such a freaking "visionary". Listen to what he told Variety:
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing; that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jell-O-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now. I have a totally different take, one that's pretty dark."
No BLOB? Hey Zombie! Why don't you just rip out my heart while you're at it? (You're so sick you'd probably enjoy it.) Steve McQueen and Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. are probably spinning in their graves.
It was bad enough when Larry Hagman - yes, J.R. from Dallas and Major Nelson from I Dream of Jeanie - made BEWARE! THE BLOB in 1972. But at least Hagman's BLOB had a BLOB in it. There was a BLOB of sorts in Chuck Russell's 1988 remake THE BLOB, but "Big Red" was no where to be seen. Russell's BLOB was an quick and agressive pinkish mass of up-chuck laced with the body parts of its victims. Now Zombie wants to totally reinvent things (AGAIN) with a blobless BLOB. Say it isn't so! Greedy producers in Hollywood should take a lesson from the very original, creative and profitable DISTRICT 9. There are talented filmmakers like Neill Blomkamp out there with new and exciting stories to tell that won't break your budget. Give them a chance instead of just rehashing old movies to make a quick buck. This is why Peter Jackson is a genius and Rob Zombie will never be anything more than a brain-dead rock star with a camera.
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