Rob Zombie, director of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects — two of the best horror flicks in ages, so says me — saw his remake of the classic Halloween slaughter the competition (zing!) this weekend. According to Box Office Mojo:
“Halloween was celebrated over the four-day Labor Day weekend to the tune of an estimated $31 million on approximately 4,100 screens at 3,472 theaters. MGM and The Weinstein Company’s remake of the seminal 1978 slasher claimed the highest-grossing Labor Day weekend opening ever…”
I haven’t seen it yet, and I’m a huge supporter of Mr. Zombie, but the flick is tracking a dreadful 23% over at Rottentomatoes. Yikes.
Steve Edit: CNN.com had this to say as well, about Halloween leading the way further towards a record-breaking year:
” ‘Halloween’ was far beyond anything we’ve seen on Labor Day,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. “It was just a perfect ending to a perfect summer. Hopefully, we can do this every year.”
The movie was good!
He did something different with the movie, instead of a pure remake (I.E Texas Chainsaw) he made the movie his own and not a Carpenter knock off. I guess some people were upset by that.
You’re a critic I can trust! I’m definitely still seeing it — most critics hated House of 1000 Corpses, so go figure.
I concur with somejerk, the movie was fun. While there are some similarities to the Carpenter version (duh!) if you liked Zombie’s prior work, you’ll like this one too.
Saw Rob Zombies Halloween over the weekend…pretty damn decent flick! Kept enough familiarity about it, but added the needed flavour to make it his own…What most people have to remember what worked in 1978, alot of it won’t work now…the modern audience is far more savy etc…In 1978 it was easier then, as nothing had really proceeded it…it was the grand daddy that started the “slasher” genre (with style I might add). Stylistically the films are different in my opinion…similar but different! Carpenters will always be the classic, but Zombies should be a template of how to reinvent a classic for a modern audience…plus I think the box office just proved it also!