hi my name is stephanie and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’re speaking to
rob zombie about his involvement in the
Halloween franchise as well as other
film projects your music in your films
often contain scary or violent images
since you’re often inspired by horror
and the surreal were you afraid of these
when you were younger not really i mean
when i was a kid i just loved all that
stuff i think the only movie i remember
actually finding scary was jaws it was
the only thing i could actually relate
to because the supernatural things of
that i don’t believe in a special
doesn’t bother me but I do believe
sharks are in the water that ruined my
summer has a child so if you don’t
believe in the supernatural or the
paranormal then why do you seem so
fascinated by it well I find it
interesting I mean it’s good fictional
material and I love it but I don’t
believe in any of it i find it hilarious
to watch other people be scared by so
house of 1000 corpses was your
directorial debut yeah and it wasn’t
that highly favored by critics but it
has a huge cult following as as its
sequel The Devil’s Rejects those
wondering does the critical reception of
your films encourage or discourage you
or do you not care about the reaction if
I was just new to making movies and have
never done music maybe it would really
affect me but I’ve gone through this for
the last 25 years I mean people don’t
remember cuz nobody was thinking about
it but none of the White Zombie records
of people like oh my god that’s my
favorite record got good reviews and
still they sold millions and millions of
copies now you listen to their opinion I
mean you can’t live or die by crazy for
now it’s just any jack off with a
website so critic and gives a shit so
when you remade Halloween I was only if
you ever felt intimidated by the fact
that it was such a classic horror movie
no the reason I didn’t was if only John
Carpenter’s Halloween existed that would
be different but the fact that there
were seven shitty sequels that followed
it I truthfully thought by the last one
that the movie was so far in the gutter
that it needed to be saved not until our
movie had Michael Myers even looked good
or scary or anything he just looked like
some little guy with shoulder pads and a
cheap-looking mask I know that you’re a
friend of John Carpenter so I was
wondering what did he think of your
version of the film I don’t know I
talked to him before I made the movie
but I never talked to him afterwards
because
I figured that the last thing John
Carpenter ever wants to talk about is
Halloween why woody I never ask anyone
their opinion because I don’t give a
shit you know I think if you stand
around waiting for people to give you
their opinion and hope they say
something good you’re gonna have a long
disappointing life that’s why we just
have to go through life knowing you’re
right and everyone else can go fuck
themselves that’s my philosophy it seems
to work for the Halloween the sequel I
mean Anna nicest way possible for the
sequel halloween to you said that you
didn’t feel bound to retain any John
Carpenter miss this time around so
zoning how did you make this move your
own well nothing in the movie relates to
anything that’s come before you know
what the first Halloween that I did
since it was technically a remake I
thought okay well we have to keep some
elements of things that John did even
though if I could go back in time I
probably wouldn’t do that now but that’s
why I was excited about the second one
cuz I like it i’m not i don’t care i’m
just gonna do whatever i want all the
way through it that’s why i like the
movie so much because it doesn’t have to
adhere to these nonsense rules about
what halloween movie can or cannot be
i’m making the rules now I can do
whatever I want I’ve heard that you’re
working on a couple of new film projects
namely Tyrannosaurus Rex and maybe a
remake of the blog is there anything you
can tell me more about this I’m not sure
what’s next I mean the blob was one
thing that came up that came to me as a
possible film to do I don’t know if I’m
gonna do that or not and Tyrannosaurus
Rex is another movie that I wrote that I
really want to do but a movie is sort of
like a giant boulder doesn’t want to
move and then suddenly it moves and then
it goes just spiraling out of control
and that’s kind of where we’re still in
the pushing the boulder phase to try to
get it to move thank you so much for
your time no problem
watchmojo.com today we’re speaking to
rob zombie about his involvement in the
Halloween franchise as well as other
film projects your music in your films
often contain scary or violent images
since you’re often inspired by horror
and the surreal were you afraid of these
when you were younger not really i mean
when i was a kid i just loved all that
stuff i think the only movie i remember
actually finding scary was jaws it was
the only thing i could actually relate
to because the supernatural things of
that i don’t believe in a special
doesn’t bother me but I do believe
sharks are in the water that ruined my
summer has a child so if you don’t
believe in the supernatural or the
paranormal then why do you seem so
fascinated by it well I find it
interesting I mean it’s good fictional
material and I love it but I don’t
believe in any of it i find it hilarious
to watch other people be scared by so
house of 1000 corpses was your
directorial debut yeah and it wasn’t
that highly favored by critics but it
has a huge cult following as as its
sequel The Devil’s Rejects those
wondering does the critical reception of
your films encourage or discourage you
or do you not care about the reaction if
I was just new to making movies and have
never done music maybe it would really
affect me but I’ve gone through this for
the last 25 years I mean people don’t
remember cuz nobody was thinking about
it but none of the White Zombie records
of people like oh my god that’s my
favorite record got good reviews and
still they sold millions and millions of
copies now you listen to their opinion I
mean you can’t live or die by crazy for
now it’s just any jack off with a
website so critic and gives a shit so
when you remade Halloween I was only if
you ever felt intimidated by the fact
that it was such a classic horror movie
no the reason I didn’t was if only John
Carpenter’s Halloween existed that would
be different but the fact that there
were seven shitty sequels that followed
it I truthfully thought by the last one
that the movie was so far in the gutter
that it needed to be saved not until our
movie had Michael Myers even looked good
or scary or anything he just looked like
some little guy with shoulder pads and a
cheap-looking mask I know that you’re a
friend of John Carpenter so I was
wondering what did he think of your
version of the film I don’t know I
talked to him before I made the movie
but I never talked to him afterwards
because
I figured that the last thing John
Carpenter ever wants to talk about is
Halloween why woody I never ask anyone
their opinion because I don’t give a
shit you know I think if you stand
around waiting for people to give you
their opinion and hope they say
something good you’re gonna have a long
disappointing life that’s why we just
have to go through life knowing you’re
right and everyone else can go fuck
themselves that’s my philosophy it seems
to work for the Halloween the sequel I
mean Anna nicest way possible for the
sequel halloween to you said that you
didn’t feel bound to retain any John
Carpenter miss this time around so
zoning how did you make this move your
own well nothing in the movie relates to
anything that’s come before you know
what the first Halloween that I did
since it was technically a remake I
thought okay well we have to keep some
elements of things that John did even
though if I could go back in time I
probably wouldn’t do that now but that’s
why I was excited about the second one
cuz I like it i’m not i don’t care i’m
just gonna do whatever i want all the
way through it that’s why i like the
movie so much because it doesn’t have to
adhere to these nonsense rules about
what halloween movie can or cannot be
i’m making the rules now I can do
whatever I want I’ve heard that you’re
working on a couple of new film projects
namely Tyrannosaurus Rex and maybe a
remake of the blog is there anything you
can tell me more about this I’m not sure
what’s next I mean the blob was one
thing that came up that came to me as a
possible film to do I don’t know if I’m
gonna do that or not and Tyrannosaurus
Rex is another movie that I wrote that I
really want to do but a movie is sort of
like a giant boulder doesn’t want to
move and then suddenly it moves and then
it goes just spiraling out of control
and that’s kind of where we’re still in
the pushing the boulder phase to try to
get it to move thank you so much for
your time no problem
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