Comments on: ROB ZOMBIE TO FUCK UP THE BLOB NEXT

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:35:06 +0000

I think you mean “gross receipts” or revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of goods sold, whereas net profit is gross profit less general and admin expenses. In other words, the bottom line before taxes. In the case of the first Zombie Halloween, I totally erred in using the term “failure”. Iin looking at profits of the movie, I have no way of knowing what the gross profit was, but revenue ($80 million) minus total cost ($15 million) – unless that figure doesn’t include promotion and advertising – is $65 million in profit. That’s an 81.25% net profit. By one definition, I was WAY wrong using the word “failure”.

However, failure and success are not solely determined by percentages, but also by expectations. I’m guessing that the margins achieved by this film far surpassed expectations, further proving I should have used a different way to phrase my original statement.

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:26:44 +0000

Two fan reviews of the first Halloween remake that stick out in my mind:
1- Zombie should have just gone to Carpenter’s house, rang his doorbell, punched him in the mouth, then pissed on him.
2- “I’m doing a re imagination of Citizen Kane, in which the main character is a space samurai and ‘rosebud’ was the giant space lizard he rode on Mars while fighting space ninjas.”

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:22:12 +0000

Kind of surprises me how many people here don’t seem to realize “failure” isn’t based on a gross profit, but rather a net profit.

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:15:46 +0000

Totally. He’s essentially a modern “b film” maker. He turned around this Halloween 2 in less than a year I believe, right? That’s amazing in Hollywood.

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:14:17 +0000

Totally. There are new and creative scripts out there. But it’s the public that’s to blame. Hollywood simply cashes in on what the public will pay for. If there were 2 or 3 horror remakes in a row that totally shit the bed, you wouldn’t see another.

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:12:22 +0000

Carpenter’s Halloween is an absolutely CLASSIC. It’s one of THE ESSENTIAL films of the genre. I’m also with you on the “motivation” thing. Making Meyers the product of an abusive white trash family totally diminishes the effect. Listening to Donald Pleasance’s (sp) lines about Meyers being “pure evil” or the “embodiment of evil,” is chilling.

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:07:12 +0000

His last Halloween made a shit ton of money, and I’m assuming this one will, too. (considering what they paid)

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:04:58 +0000

Yeah, this “Halloween 2″ is not a remake of Carpenter’s “Halloween 2.” It’s a sequel to Zombie’s “Halloween.” That being said, I wouldn’t mind someone doing either a remake of Halloween 3 or some kind of sequel to that.

By: stu1

stu1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:03:13 +0000

Horse?

By: Slaughterhouse

Slaughterhouse — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:17:36 +0000

The new Halloween movies are fanfuckingtastic……..

By: d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n.

d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:19:33 +0000

Maybe he can remake “Master Of Puppets” and turn that into shit.

By: Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:49:25 +0000

BLOB ZOMBIE

By: We Love Metal

We Love Metal — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:43:16 +0000

I thought Halloween one and two were great. Looking forward to the BLOB. What I would really like is for him to make some more music.

By: ceth carter

ceth carter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:24:53 +0000

No they were not, Inglorious Bastards has more or less pulled Weinstein out of the shitter with the 2 pretty big first weeks it has had. That movie is looking at probably 80 million in the states before its all over which is a very nice profit for Weinstein and as mentioned above,H2 is already on track to turn a profit after 1 weekend so i think even with these smaller movies Weinstein has to be somewhat happy,positive cash flow is on the way with these 2 movies.

By: !?!

!?! — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:55:44 +0000

I think the more plausible option is the scarier one. Not that an average kid next door couldn’t by chance turn out to be a vicious killer. It happens, sure. But Zombie places Myers in an environment that just might produce a vicious killer. Just because it makes sense doesn’t mean it’s any less scary.

Meh. I might give Carpenter’s original another shot. But if a gag with a sheet is the best thing it has going for it….

By: d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n.

d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:42:07 +0000

(Correction: turning chicken salad into chicken shit)

By: d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n.

d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:40:21 +0000

Absolutely. The market dictates what’s out there, and the market apparently begs to see wusses who somehow manage to pass for vampires, as well as poor excuses for “creative individuals” who are content with turning chicken salad into shit.

If no one encourages idiots like Rob Zombie to rape the movie industry, they will have no reason to continue their travesties.

By: Raul

Raul — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:31:39 +0000

Looks like the Weinsteins will be outta business before we ever see The Blob or H3. They were counting on H2 to save ‘em…

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:18:13 +0000

Ah, I see. We were making different points. Yeah, I probably shouldn’t have chosen the word “failure”. I just meant to chastise Axl for purposely punishing himself by watching something he knew would suck.

By: kb

kb — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:49:11 +0000

Even though I’m not a big fan of Zombie’s Halloween movies, I gotta call this article out on something. It says the Blob did it right by taking the original concept and going in a totally different direction with it.

Now, again, I’m no big fan of RZ’s Halloweens, but that’s exactly what he did with those… those are DEFINITELY taking the series in a different direction… especially the new one.