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http://www.horror-movies.ca/2013/05/...horror-movies/Rob Zombie Announces He’s Done Making Horror Movies
Herner Klenthur May 14th, 2013 22 Comments Rob Zombie you either love his horror movies or you hate them. Rarely does there seem to be much middle ground on this topic. This morning one of our readers alerted me to the fact that Rob Zombie seems to have had his fill of doing horror movies. Thats right he is throwing in the towel…. at least for now.
The Pheonix New Times did an interview with Rob Zombie asking if he would be interested in doing a monster movie next and his answer was pretty shocking declaring the Lords of Salem will be his last horror flick;
"No. I’m not really thinking of doing anything . . . Lords of Salem is my last sort of horror-genre related film for a really long time."
Rob Zombie has gotten plenty of heat over the years and some scorn from horror fans. He had the balls to step up to remake one of the greatest horror movies of all time, Halloween and then followed that up with a sequel to a remake. I thought his remake was pretty solid but the sequel was so bad it just made me brain hemmorage.
Poor Rob... I honestly think this is a huge loss for all of us horror fans. I don't know about you, but I loved House of 1000 Corpses, I loved Devil's Rejects, I pretend the Halloween remakes don't exist, El Superbeasto was funny, and I loved Lords of Salem.
He's one of the greats as far as filmmaking in the mainstream goes, and for people who don't give great constructive criticism as to why it sucked to know as to why their opinions would matter in the first place, I'm sorry but those kinds of lame-ass quick-opinion take-downs on movies like this that have quality in them and for haters to not see it really sucks for the future of mainstream filmmmaking.
The more people keep supporting blockbusters that don't always have quality in them when they SHOULD have some kind of substance in them, the more great visionary filmmakers like Rob Zombie will always get shelved by executives because they rely more on the box office to decifer what people want to see, not the quality of how films are made, and that's NOT bullshit.
The smart answer is that no one will ever know what everyone wants, it's impossible, unless it's a huge fanbased property, a book, a game, a cereal, whatever that's known by many that's where the money goes and that's how they'll get it. It's a safe bet and with safe bets come great consequences.
See this is why we hardly if ever get any good movies in the mainstream that is NOT a based-property, and I thought the mainstream would be open to a lot of movies with creative ideas, but instead we get more of the same, stupid, cynical thing and my favorite or your favorite filmmaker will always get the shaft because they want to make something different.
I understand if some people hate the movies if they think and realize there is something wrong with them that I could agree to when it turns out to be a problem of quality, however I DO NOT agree and will shoot-down any criticism that has no constructive things to say other than "This movie was a stupid piece of shit! Rob stop putting Sherri in your movies! The story was crap, the characters and acting are stupid, the editing is super lame!"
Yeah, I don't deem any opinions like those with any ounce of respect, then when you ask them why they don't go out and make their own movie and make it better then you realize these are the same people that look down or scorn independent movies, where in that case makes me feel ashamed that these said people can't accept these things or look at something with an open mind.
It's a battle us creators are fighting to this very day, because if people continue to shun creativity due to lack of budgets, lack of acting, and granted lack of writing creativity will always get shot down and never given a chance to the masses in the mainstream or not, and for people to tell other people to keep away from independent movies because of said stupid reasons (because let's face it, mainstream films that have bigger budgets, better acting, or better writing does not mean they're always going to be great or good, ergo: Die Hard 5, Iron Man 2, Ang Lee's HULK, The Hunger Games) is the most rotten, ignorant mass of people that need to be open about things that have a place in the history of filmmaking.
I hope you return with more great ideas, Rob, I'll always be rooting for you!