While The Weinstein Co. has been steadily plugging away at promotion for Inglourious Basterds (Aug. 21), it’s almost a surprise to realize that, the following week, TWC shall release another film: Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2. While this sequel won’t be much of a hard sell, due to the $58 million domestic (and $80 million worldwide) taking of Zombie’s Halloween, the sequel does share an opening weekend with just one other wide release, which just happens to be another horror movie, The Final Destination. Dealing with a divided target audience should be interesting, to say the very least. Despite his elusive nature, Zombie has hit something of a low-key promotional trail in a Q/A with Vanity Fair:
Horror films tend to be thinly-veiled morality tales. They’re basically warning teenagers about the perils of extramarital sex. What’s the moral lesson of your movies?
I don’t think my movies have a lesson. Or if they do, I guess it’s that it’s a fucked up world and you are probably fucked.
Ha. Well, Zombie’s own parents probably won’t be too surprised by that answer:
What do Mom and Pop Zombie think about their son’s career?
They always seem fairly horrified when the lights come up at every screening. I don’t really see too much joy on their faces. But I think they’re pretty used to my antics by now. I think they stopped being shocked a long time ago, maybe some time around the third grade.
Zombie also reveals that he’ll never again direct another Halloween sequel (“There’s not enough money in the world to make me consider it.”), for he’s got other cinematic plans. While Zombie assures his fans that he won’t be making a genre shift by dabbling in romcom hell, he also nixes the idea of turning his Grindhouse exploitation trailer, Werewolf Women of the S.S., into something more (“I can pretty much promise you that it’s never going to happen.”).
You know, I agree with the dude. As a fake trailer, Werewolf Women of the S.S. was hilarious, but it was too campy to translate into a full-length feature film. Besides, do we really want Nicholas Cage to get more work?
