Boner-Inducing News!

If you're a fan of horror movies, then you have to be forming an enormous erection from the following news:

Rob Zombie is resurrecting Michael Myers, one of the big screen's favorite horror villains. Zombie will write and direct a new "Halloween" movie, serving up what is being called as a brand-new vision for the long-running horror series.

While there's been extreme mixed opinions on Zombie's two movies -- House of 1000 Corpses was pretty universally panned while The Devil's Rejects was praised -- I'm a fan of both.

Corpses has no plot or story to speak of, which is why most people (understandably) hate it. But it does include some of the greatest horror visuals in recent memory. And because of the throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach (even though everything does stick), it's a near-perfect representation of a Halloween-time haunted house. It's not a fantastic movie on the whole, but it showed Zombie was able to take an almost-remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and make it something original and exciting.

Rejects works in the exact opposite way. Sure, there's a visual style to it all (the dust-blown, bloody carnage of Peckinpah's 70s westerns), but it's not as pronounced as in Corpses. Zombie compensates that by putting an actual story and plot in this second time around. As such, his next movie was going to be highly-anticipated by me no matter what.

But now, with news that he's going to be tackling a story concerning my favorite horror film of all time ... well, it might go straight to the top of my List of Anticipatory Erections.

Second place, at least.

(Some more opinions and always-highly-thoughtful comments from soulless Internet folk is available at the Ain't It Cool article and it's corresponding Talkback section.)

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(an update straight from the horse's mouth, via his MySpace Page:

Okay here's the real deal for those of you who are confused. As I said yesterday - I am not making Halloween 9. That series is done, complete, over.

But what I am doing is starting totally from from scratch. This the new HALLOWEEN. Call it a remake, an update, a reimaging or whatever, but one thing that for sure is this is a whole new start... a new begining with no connection to the other series. That is exactly why the project appeals to me. I can take it and run with it.

I talked to John Carpenter about this the other day and he said, "Go for it, Rob. Make it your own". And that's exactly what I intend to do.

The Carpenter endorsement not-withstanding (he'd put his okay on my post-burrito excrement if he could get two bucks for it), I do find Zombie's entry even more promising. First: it confirms that it's not just a "rumor" and actually Zombie plans on fulfilling. And second: he's treating it as a reboot instead of a sequel, kind of like "Batman Begins" started the franchise anew.

Now, my only question now is whether or not Dr. Sam Loomis will make an appearance.)