Interview: The Dark Side of Laurie Strode

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by robinandtami

I just watched the remake of Halloween last night for the first time, and I really liked it. I like how we got so much detail about how the monster was born. I like that is was so different from the typical, teenagers running and screaming, hack and slash.

I think this sequel will be interesting too. It sounds like the more that Laurie finds out about her history.... the more of a dark side we will see released from within her. A much more interesting take than the poor, pitiful innocent victim Laurie that we saw in the first series..... IMO.

But then I've liked Rob's films so far. I loved the Devil's Rejects and how by the end of that film you are actually left feeling kind of sorry for this family of remorseless, psychopathic killers.

I actually heard a woman complaining in Movie Stop that Rob Zombie's a crappy director because he made her care about the Firefly family.

I kind of butted into the conversation and asked her how a director can be bad if he shows you a family that rapes, tortures and kills(not always in that order) and somehow makes you feel empathy towards them. Unless of course that's your "thing". Her boyfriend/husband was amused, she wasn't.

I'm a big fan of the original. It's probably my favorite horror film. And while I don't think this one comes anywhere close to the original, I still enjoyed it. Having said that, I'm getting a little tired of every popular film of the last 30 years getting remade. I can't help but think that for every one of these retreads that get made, we're missing a Godfather or an Alien.