ROB ZOMBIE's 'Halloween' Honored At RONDO HATTON CLASSIC HORROR AWARDS

March 14, 2008

Rocker-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie's blood-filled remake of the "Halloween" franchise was honored in the Best Film category at the sixth annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, an online survey of the horror community that drew a record vote. "Halloween" won in an unprecedented landslide, overwhelming films such as "Grindhouse", "Sweeney Todd", "300", "The Host" and "I Am Legend". Support for the remake, propelled by Zombie's rabid fan base, drew more votes, the most ever in the six-year history of the Rondos.

The Rondos, named after 1940s character actor Rondo Hatton, are a fan-based survey of the classic horror community sponsored by the Classic Horror Film Board web site. The email-only vote was the biggest classic horror fan survey in online history.

According to unconfirmed Internet reports, the next movie from Rob Zombie, titled "Tyrannosaurus Rex", is about a semi-professional wrestler named Tyrannosaurus Rex who is being pursued by a "biker gang from hell." If that is in fact the premise, it closely resembles a comic book that Zombie co-authored a few years ago, called "The Nail". Although a film version of "The Nail" was reportedly in the works at one point, nothing ever came of it.

Zombie created "The Nail" with hot horror comics writer Steve Niles, author of the graphic novel "30 Days of Night". Zombie told The Pulse of Radio at the time how the partnership began. "We got together and we're like the same age, and we sort of have the same background, you know, he was in these DC hardcore bands, and somehow we just were very similar," he said. "So we started working together and, I don't know, it just worked. 'The Nail' is pretty ridiculous, it's sort of like ('70s biker horror film) 'Satan's Sadists' meets ('70s Peter Fonda horror movie) 'Race With The Devil'."

Zombie has not made any public announcements about "Tyrannosaurus Rex" except for the title. The film is due out on August 28, 2009.

Zombie's upcoming animated film, "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto", was also based on a comic book character he created.

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