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Joyeux

Happy holidays of choice! I’ll be off for a couple of weeks, but I’ll leave with some glad tidings that have improved my spirits.

It looks like Rob Zombie will be making Halloween 2! Sequel to remake, not remake of sequel.

Folks that know me will be surprised to see me jolly at this, but the last word on Halloween 2 was that it’d be handled by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, whose Inside (A l’Interieur) was one of my favorite horror flicks in years. It had been deeply dismaying to see them packed into the recent trend of bringing talented French horror directors over to the States and throwing them onto sequel and remake properties to pay dues (though I’d had some mild optimism for their attachment to the new version of Hellraiser, which is currently tied to – oh well – French director Pascal Laugier).

Zombie’s dibs on the next Halloween means he can safely continue to make crummy films I don’t care about, and hopefully that Bustillo and Maury can get something with a little more potential. There’s no guarantee they won’t end up on a new version of The Burning, but I’m grateful for small favors. Joyeux Noël mes amis!