Rob zombie might remake C.H.U.D

[Wax Zombie]

He's also been linked to a remake of "C.H.U.D." for 2009 but would not confirm what his next film project will be. Meanwhile, Zombie is waiting for editor Glenn Garland to finish with a director's cut of his hit remake of "Halloween" to begin work on a DVD companion to his new "Zombie Live" album.


http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003669067

I just wanted to copy that part. Anyways I hope this is just a rumor. If not then I think it will be awesome having Rob Zombie remaking C.H.U.D.

[FrighT MasteR]

:bored:

[Treefroggiefreak]

So I think I can actually say I've never heard of this movie before now :lol: Am I missing anything?

[Aurone]

So I think I can actually say I've never heard of this movie before now :lol: Am I missing anything?

I'm in the same boat as you. This worth it?

[ASoron0424]

So I think I can actually say I've never heard of this movie before now :lol: Am I missing anything?

I've never seen it before either, but from what I've heard it's just one of the more respectable monster movies of the eighties.

[Joker]

I like the original.Though I guess I wouldnt mind seeing an updated verion of this movie.For those who havent seen the original,I would recommend it for a watch.

[ASoron0424]

I'll advocate Rob Zombie remaking most things, really. Anything but Child's Play. Not Child's Play.

[steelba]

C.H.U.D. could use a remake. But i'd prefer Aja direct it.

[skybrick]

hmmm I know I have seen CHUD, I just cant really remember it.

[steelba]

Daniel Stern runs a soup kitchen and the NYC bums are being eaten by C.H.U.D.S :D

[RustedChainsaw]

Yeah, the guy from "Home Alone" was in the original! Too bad I never got the chance to see it.

[K.I.N.G]

I was gonna buy it, but then I didn't.

[IKickAssForTheLord]

If u haven't seen it and wanna see it... I know its on youtube the full movie in parts.

[WarBeast]

Fuck, just buy it... it's worth it... one of my old faves.

[ASoron0424]

We all know only a master of filmmaking can handle this. Hopefully Uwe's up for the task.

[Metapher]

Stop it Rob, make your own movies. Even if House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects weren't the 2 most original movies ever, atleast they weren't remakes but tributes.
I haven't really liked a Rob movie yet.

[Misfit]

We all know only a master of filmmaking can handle this. Hopefully Uwe's up for the task.

rob zombie is just as bad as uwe

[smokey]

I need to check the original out. I have not seen it yet. It does sound like a cool film.

[Chief Falling Rock]

nobodies as bad as Uwe. Anyways this movie could use a remake, original was forgettable in my opinion. I saw it a year ago and barely remember anything about it. John Goodman had a cameo as a cop though which I thought was funny. It is funny to go back to old movies and notice people who are famous now. Even though I think Rob should do an original movie after doing a remake. This movie could use one.

[holdmycock]

Stop it Rob, make your own movies. Even if House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects weren't the 2 most original movies ever, atleast they weren't remakes but tributes.
I haven't really liked a Rob movie yet.

It's pretty hard to be completely original because almost everything has been done... but it'd be nice if Rob wasn't the guy who did remake after remake.

I think it's becoming more obvious of just how much Rob is in it for the money. All I ever hear are people that hate his movies and I'm usually surprised when someone says they liked one. I liked his first two.. but after Halloween.. I don't think I'm gonna sit through anymore of his stuff.

C.H.U.D isn't a gem or anything.. but really? a remake? That's a bit silly. While you're at it, Rob. Can you remake Ghoulies and Basketcase for us too? Any other 80's horror movie we might have missed renting at the local videostore?

[dead breed]

I love the movie C.H.U.D .. I would be interested in seeing a remake of this, I think Zombie would do an interesting job.

[IKickAssForTheLord]

I just watched it the other day for the first only cuz I saw this thread and thought I would check it out... it wasn't anythin' special.

[ALMOST HUMAN]

C.H.U.D. could use a remake. But i'd prefer Aja direct it.

Stop it Rob, make your own movies. Even if House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects weren't the 2 most original movies ever, atleast they weren't remakes but tributes.
I haven't really liked a Rob movie yet.

rob zombie is just as bad as uwe

I think it's becoming more obvious of just how much Rob is in it for the money. All I ever hear are people that hate his movies and I'm usually surprised when someone says they liked one. I liked his first two.. but after Halloween.. I don't think I'm gonna sit through anymore of his stuff.

C.H.U.D isn't a gem or anything.. but really? a remake? That's a bit silly. While you're at it, Rob. Can you remake Ghoulies and Basketcase for us too? Any other 80's horror movie we might have missed renting at the local videostore?

These quote basically sum up how I feel about all this.

[slimeisacharacter]

C.H.U.D. was one of the better non-mainstream monster flicks of the 80s, respected in many circles. Its sequal, Bud the C.H.U.D., umm...not as well liked but still it could have been sooo much worse.

I could see a remake of this film, though the Zombie is definately not my first choice for captain's chair on this one. C.H.U.D., if remade, takes a certain feel to respect the first. The Z has a certain feel on films that is not C.H.U.D. like in the slightest...

[Chief Falling Rock]

dreadcentral says now he isnt doing it

[steelba]

Well that means we wont be forced to watch the white trash version of C.H.U.D.
Rob changed Halloween from a middle class suburban tale of horror, to a white trash gone wrong saga.

Basically the same as his other flicks :2far:

[MrNobody]

C.H.U.D was a good movie for it's time.
And Rob Zombie SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ASoron0424]

C.H.U.D was a good movie for it's time.
And Rob Zombie SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make a list; give me five reasons why Rob Zombie sucks.

[Darkgod]

Its his opinion, much as I think M. Night sucks and you don't.

[ASoron0424]

Its his opinion, much as I think M. Night sucks and you don't.

For most people it doesn't even seem like their opinion anymore, it seems like 1) hope on the bandwagon, most people hate it, so they should too, 2) an instinctual disliking of remakes, or 3) immediate disliking of it because they liked the original.

[koolmike]

:bored:

Ditto.

[pastor_ice43]

I love it...this is one Zomboid flick I can honestly say I won't be seeing. Never saw the original C.H.U.D...so I don't really care. I won't see it because I know it's gonna be ZOMBIFIED, and no movie is good in that format.

[Darkgod]

Chud is a nice movie to get your friends out in the movie game. It's got Daniel Stern and John Goodman out on it.

[MrNobody]

Make a list; give me five reasons why Rob Zombie sucks.
1/House of 1000 corpses
2/The Devils Rejects
3/Remake Halloween
4/Him thinking the these last 3 movies I mentioned are actually horror movies. Well, Halloween is, even though he ruined it, but the first two are not horror movies and they're retarded.
5/His music...........

There you go. Thank God you only asked for 5, because that's all I got. That's probably all he's got too.

[skybrick]

Zombie is a decent director (HOKC is bad), he just needs to do something fresh or new thats good to impress me.

[slimeisacharacter]

There is nothing wrong with Rob Zombie as a director, not one thing. The problem is he has a unique approach to filming that doesn't mesh with every film. Worked well in his eariler work, films sort of meant for him. But remakes are tricky. He pulled off Halloween, but it was quite obvious that he took it in HIS fashion. C.H.U.D. wouldn't work in his method. Thats not an insult in the slightest, every director cannot direct every film well... simple fact.

[pastor_ice43]

Everything is wrong with Zombie being a director. He sucks at film making. His movies are ridiculously bad. He is to America, what Uwe Bowl is to Germany.

[ammityville69]

Well that means we wont be forced to watch the white trash version of C.H.U.D.
Rob changed Halloween from a middle class suburban tale of horror, to a white trash gone wrong saga.

Basically the same as his other flicks :2far:

I couldnt agree more. Halloween remake filtered out any respect I may have had for rob as a filmmaker. (He still kicks ass on stage though)

[ASoron0424]

1/House of 1000 corpses
2/The Devils Rejects
3/Remake Halloween
4/Him thinking the these last 3 movies I mentioned are actually horror movies. Well, Halloween is, even though he ruined it, but the first two are not horror movies and they're retarded.
5/His music...........

There you go. Thank God you only asked for 5, because that's all I got. That's probably all he's got too.

House of 1000 Corpses sucked, I agree with you on that, but it paved the way for Rejects.

Devil's Rejects was probably the most disturbing movie to come out that year (I think 2004), in which case it would be up against Hills Have Eyes and Saw. Saw, which you've probably noticed, wasn't as violent as it was hyped up to be. Really, the franchise didn't get any more violent than you're typical horror movie until the second one. It was rivaled by Hills Have Eyes (which is a better movie, depending on your taste, definitely scarier), but there was something about it that was more fucked up than anything else that came out that year. And he had this way of creating a gray area with his characters, getting you to hate them and sympathize for them at the same time. Also, the ending to Rejects is great.

His Halloween remake did exactly what he wanted it to do - it came across bearing almost no resemblance at all to the original. The entire feel of it is completely different, the characters are different (I think it was Steelba who said he took it from a "suburban tale of horror" to a white trash saga - which is true, and he seems to have some fascination with white trash troglodytes, but it nonetheless worked well for him in making a movie that was totally his own [or as much as it could have been, considering the material wasn't his own]), it's just so far from Carpenter's there's really no room for comparison. As a horror movie, and as a film, the original is better by a long shot - but in terms of contemporary horror, what's scaring people today, the utilizing of modern directorial techniques, Halloween was great. Think about it, if Rob Zombie's Halloween was called "Ghost Face" or something, and was one of the 8 Films to Die For, don't you think you'd have much more appreciation for it?

As for you thinking House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects aren't horror movies...okay...I really don't see what other catagories they fall into, but that's fine.

And as for his music, okay, that really doesn't have much to do with this thread, but if you don't like it that's fine, it just means you may already have a bit of a biased view at his work because you don't like what he sings.

"There you go. Thank God you only asked for 5, because that's all I got. That's probably all he's got too."
What does that mean?

[skybrick]

HOKC is horror as in horrible.
I categorize lots of movies under the horror genre. Thriller? Suspense? To sum it up I just call them horror movies.

[ALMOST HUMAN]

Well that means we wont be forced to watch the white trash version of C.H.U.D.
Rob changed Halloween from a middle class suburban tale of horror, to a white trash gone wrong saga.

Basically the same as his other flicks :2far:

Agreed. Zombie is a one-trick pony, and not a very good one either. :D

[MrNobody]

"There you go. Thank God you only asked for 5, because that's all I got. That's probably all he's got too."
What does that mean?

What that means is this: I don't know anything else about him or his work. So basically, the 5 things I mentioned were all I could come up with, which is what you asked me for. You said name 5 things wrong with Rob Zombie. If you would have said 6 things or more I would have been stumped.
Anyway, these of course are my thought on him. I know allot of people who like his work. I just don't get it. These characters are like retarded mental patients, I don't know, just seems boring and stupid and unwatchable. Like The Hills Have Eyes. I don't really like movies with retarded radio active cave dwelling families. Maybe one crazy bastard I could live with, but this family shit, I don't like. One movie I do like though with a fucked up family is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But even the family stuff, I didn't care for, but I did like the movie. Part 1 only though. And the remake was alright.

[Darkgod]

Everything is wrong with Zombie being a director. He sucks at film making. His movies are ridiculously bad. He is to America, what Uwe Bowl is to Germany.

Thats just dumb. Uwe Boll is utter garbage. As for ZOmbie. I thought HOTC was ok. I didn't care for Haloween, but I loved Devils rejects and put it as one of the better movies for horror in the past 10 years. And yes it is horror. There is a family killing people, and terrorizing them while being chased by a ghost seeing, hot head cop who will stop at nothing to get them. The movie is great alone for Forsythe, who gives a great performance.

[steelba]

Whoever remakes this will be a better choice than Zombie.

[Wax Zombie]

I think Peter Jackson should remake it.

[Darkgod]

He'd actually be a pretty good director. i just think its a little too small of a movie for him to get his hands on/