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If Rob Zombie Had Adapted "Where the Wild Things Are"

Lauren Davis — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:30:00 PDT

Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is an indie rock meditation on childhood fears, but what if there had been a different director at the helm? G4 shows us Rob Zombie's gory, apocalyptic vision for the beloved children's book.

[G4 via Metafilter]

Rob Zombie's Remake Of The Blob Will Be Actually Terrifying

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PDT

The Blob is getting a reboot by Rob Zombie, who has a $30 million budget and promises to make the 1950s movie's "jello-looking thing" horrifying.

Zombie is excited to break out of the horror genre, and get his hands on some actual science fiction. And this could be one remake that actually improves on the original.

According to the trades, Zombie knows what he has to change about the back story to make it appealing to modern day audiences.

"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing — that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."

So expect to see a globby thing that's more gross and less food-like.

[Variety]

The Rob Zombie Diet Plan

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:47:26 PST

New horror comedy Burn Off reveals the hidden madness behind the perfect diet drink: it works like a charm, but drives you mad and causes you to murder your loved ones. Cinema Blend hears a rumor that the comedy leading lady Anna Faris is attached to the project, and that they're gunning for Rob Zombie to direct. I'm for it, because I'd like to see Zombie do a clean-looking film that gets dirty real quick. [Cinema Blend]

Nazi Werewolf Gals Spread The Pure Blood Word Through Comic

Meredith Woerner — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:00:55 PDT

Strap on your topless suspenders and gas masks, Project Pure Wolf is getting it's own comic book. You may remember these busty German broads as one of the fake trailers that aired during Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double feature. According to Rob Zomibie's myspace blog the Werewolf Women of the S.S. shall be splattered across the panels of an upcoming comic book, but no news on who will be writing, illustrating or even the publisher. But hopefully we can finally get to the bottom of Nicolas Cage's crazy cameo as Fu Manchu. Click through for the original trailer and one more trailer that begs for a full length feature.

I'm all for the Werewolf ladies turning into a comic but why stop there? These crazy gals and their werewolf feeding Nazi den of booze and singing deserve more screen time. Who doesn't want to see the naked masked Nazi ladies of death camp 13, let alone the crazy experimentation that went into making a "pure" wolf person.

But while were looking back at the Grindhouse fake trailers I think we need to note Eli Roth's Thanksgiving clip as well. "You'll come home from the holidays in a body bag," is by far one of the top all time tag lines in horror movies. What petition do I need to start to get that film made?

NSFW trailers for Nazi Werewolves, Don't and Thanksgiving.

[Myspace]

Bang A Gong And Get It On With Rob Zombie

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:44:00 PDT

We've been ignoring Rob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex movie project, now in development, because it doesn't sound like it actually features killer dinosaurs. Just wrestlers and Satanic bikers and stuff. But this is the second piece of concept art Zombie has put out which has a giant flaming T-Rex in the background. Is this a metaphorical dinosaur, or will there actually be dinosaurs made of fire? Click through for the full pic, plus the other flaming dino image.