Zombie explained to Deadline his exact reasoning behind the business maneuver saying, “I wanted to break away from anything related to preexisting material. The remake train is getting pretty tired now and when I made Halloween, everybody complained, either that it was too much like the original or too different. I like that people either love or hate what I do because it’s better than being in the middle, which means forgettable. But when you do an original premise, they take it on face value and after three years of not being able to win on Halloween, I just couldn’t go through that again.” explains the multi faceted Zombie.

Zombie goes on to state his plans to pen the script for the upcoming The Lords of Salem while touring. The general idea behind the film pit’s a contemporary Salem town against a 300 year old coven of witches. Zombie plans to shoot the picture next year.

For Rob Zombie fans and detractors alike, this is fantastic news. Zombie clearly has a lot to offer the film industry, but his pictures have been a bit hit-and-miss at this point. Being a freakishly obsessed fan of John Carpenter’s 1978 fright flick Halloween, I was extremely disappointed by Zombie’s 2007 reboot; I refuse to even discuss H2. While I initially loathed House of 1000 Corpses, I'll admit I’ve grown to enjoy the 89 minute homage to grindhouse cinema. Then Zombie caught me completely off guard with his wonderfully crafted animated picture The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. It's become difficult to predict his business moves, and even more difficult to predict what caliber work he'll unleash.  

It’s become quite clear to me that I’ll take a Zombie original work versus a Zombie remake any day of the week. How about you?

Source: Deadline