ROB ZOMBIE: 'I've Been Involved In A Lot Of Movies That Never Got Made'

Amy Atkins of Boise Weekly recently conducted an interview with ROB ZOMBIE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Boise Weekly: Moving into the film side of your career, are there any new horror movies out there that you've seen and loved or can't wait to see?

Rob: No, not really. I don't really rush out to see horror movies. They're usually crappy for the most part. I rushed out to see "Little Miss Sunshine" and "World Trade Center", but as for horror movies, they are few and far between that I rush out to see. I know that sounds bad but it's true. There's nothing I hate more than sitting through a bad movie. I have a copy of "The Descent" which I haven't watched yet. I've heard it's good.

Boise Weekly: Going back a little bit, why did you decide to do a sequel to "House of 1,000 Corpses"? Were fans begging you for another film or did you just have more to say?

Rob: The reality of it is, I really liked those characters so I was happy to revisit them. And it's almost impossible to get movies made. For every movie that's made, there are 10,000 movies that people think are getting made that aren't. So when Lion's Gate came to me and said they wanted to do a sequel to "House of 1,000 Corpses" and they were ready to do it, I said, "Sure." I know so many people who have made a movie and someone comes to them and says, "Let's make a sequel," and they say, "I don't want to make a sequel; I want to make something new." And then the new thing never happens. Fifteen years go by and they still haven't made the new movie. So, I had an idea for it, I like the characters, so I was happy to do it.

Boise Weekly: Do you see yourself doing more films along that line?

Rob: Well, I'm doing a remake of "Halloween". I'll start that in October when I finish the tour. After that, I don't know. I have another script I wrote that isn't a horror movie that I would like to make. As it goes, it's really hard to get movies made. I've been involved in a lot of movies that never got made. It's incredibly difficult.

Boise Weekly: Would you ever consider directing someone else's film?

Rob: If it's a great script that I liked, sure. It's just hard because I want to make movies I like. So many movies are so generic. I'm a particular type of person and I want to make those movies. Certain directors make movies that are very much them. When you see a Quentin Tarentino movie, it's very much him.

Boise Weekly: Lastly, back to "Halloween". Are you going to try and recapture the original "Halloween" movie or are you going to a new place with it?

Rob: My main goal is to take the essence of the story and make a completely different movie. I don't want it to look or feel or act like the original. That movie already exists so to do anything like that movie seems like a completely pointless venture. Which I think is the problem with remakes and where they get into trouble. I want to make something that in the first 10 seconds you think, "Wow. This is a whole different movie."

Read the entire interview at Boise Weekly.