'Halloween' Sequel Gets a Green Light
Current trends in horror… Let’s see…there’s excessive gore (we all love that one)…there’s hot chicks (a return for the scream queens, so to speak)… Hmm…oh yeah – there’s blasphemy. And complete lack of respect for the filmmaker. And money-hungry studios doing anything to diminish any respect a horror movie has accrued amongst the film community. The latter two being things that Dimension Films seems to pride itself on. Yes, despite director Rob Zombie’s refusal to make a second installment to his rehash of Halloween (undoubtedly because of his respect for John Carpenter and his acknowledging Dimension’s plans to rape the dollar bill like Jeff Goldblum locked in a room with Charles Bronson’s wife in Death Wish), the studio has decided to go forward with a sequel without the director. Excellent. I was hoping I’d get to suffer through another implausible sequel that was made for absolutely no reason.
According to Variety, Dimension has a horror heavy line-up of about 18 direct-to-video titles planned for 2009 releases – several of which are sequels. “Jewels” we have the good fortune of looking forward to include extensions (read “sequels”) of Children of the Corn, Feast, Pulse, and Hell Ride. We’ll also be treated to Dead by Daylight, a zombie pic from Raw Nerve, as well as Midnight Man 2 and Midnight Man 3 (for all zero of you that saw Midnight Man 1). My question about all of this -- does it really make sense financially to spend money pumping out thirty terribly made direct-to-video titles than just taking all the money it took to make these films and put it towards making a few really excellent horror films and then promoting those? I don’t know. Maybe I’ll be wrong and these will all be horror classics. Who knows? Guess we’ll just have to endure them one by one as they come out.
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