What I didn't know was that Zombie replaced him with Andrew Prine -- another great 70s genre actor who's been off the radar for far too long.  Like Tarantino, Zombie has a knack for using great genre actors who have slipped into obscurity and bringing them back to horror fans' attention.

I'm thinking maybe I'll send him a list of forgotten actors I'd like to see him use in his next movie.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to see Bruce Abbott show up in a new horror flick.  And speaking of Re-Animator actors, why hasn't he used Jeffrey Combs yet?

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One of the worst big budget horror movies of the past decade:  Halloween II.  How are we supposed to care about Laurie when she's become such a ratty ass, irritating douchebag?  Heck, I had a hard time caring about Danielle Harris's character, and it's pretty hard for me to NOT LIKE her.  I always loved Pleasence's nutty Loomis, but McDowell's, particularly in this one, was just terrible.  Then he gives his wife an even bigger, nonsensical role that had me holding my head.  I just wanted it to be over.  I know he wanted to make these movies dark and brutal, but did they have to be so shitty?

While I enjoyed RZ's first Halloween, I completely agree with you on his H2.  It's just a dark, ugly, depressing movie with not a single likeable character (aside from Brad Dourif's Sheriff Brackett).  I didn't care what happened to Lori Strode in this movie because she was a whiny, punk ass bitch.  And poor Danielle Harris...  After this flick I totally understand why she decided to give directing a shot.  She deserves better.

But, as bad as the movie was, RZ won me over enough with The Devil's Rejects and Halloween '07 that I'm willing to give him another shot or two.  Here's to hoping Lords of Salem turns out good.  It's got a horror movie cast to kill for, so I have some amount of hope for it.

I'm being hard on the guy, but I just don't like much of anything he does.  I think he has it in him to do something good, but I agree with what someone posted earlier about him needing to get away from the whole evil hillbilly mire he's wallowing in.  There's something about his work, music and film, that I can't appreciate.  It's my hang up.

One of the worst big budget horror movies of the past decade:  Halloween II.  How are we supposed to care about Laurie when she's become such a ratty ass, irritating douchebag?  Heck, I had a hard time caring about Danielle Harris's character, and it's pretty hard for me to NOT LIKE her.  I always loved Pleasence's nutty Loomis, but McDowell's, particularly in this one, was just terrible.  Then he gives his wife an even bigger, nonsensical role that had me holding my head.  I just wanted it to be over.  I know he wanted to make these movies dark and brutal, but did they have to be so shitty?

While I enjoyed RZ's first Halloween, I completely agree with you on his H2.  It's just a dark, ugly, depressing movie with not a single likeable character (aside from Brad Dourif's Sheriff Brackett).  I didn't care what happened to Lori Strode in this movie because she was a whiny, punk ass bitch.  And poor Danielle Harris...  After this flick I totally understand why she decided to give directing a shot.  She deserves better.

But, as bad as the movie was, RZ won me over enough with The Devil's Rejects and Halloween '07 that I'm willing to give him another shot or two.  Here's to hoping Lords of Salem turns out good.  It's got a horror movie cast to kill for, so I have some amount of hope for it.

Not a fan of his music either, pretty much only a fan of Corpses and Rejects.  Two damn good movies, especially in a world that doesn't produce many great original characters/scripts.  I know House of a Thousand Corpses just pays homage to movies like TCM, but it still has Sid Haig and all his hilarious ass quotes.  It still has Mosely raising hell literally.  Zombie definitely isn't one of my favorite directors...

Then there came Halloween.  I know I'm alone in this but I'd rather watch Halloween: Resurrection than sit through this again.  I tried to like it because I love the Halloween franchise - the good, bad, and embarrassingly awful.  I didn't need to know Michael's white trash background.  I hate it that he made him a pouty faced, too cool for school, rock n' roll brat.  I guess we were supposed to feel sorry for him, but like most all of RZ's characters, he was hard to empathize with.  Of course, then he turned him in a hulking, superhuman pro wrestler that wasn't as scary as RZ thought he was.  He also picked a poor Laurie.  Plus, the movie just doesn't FEEL like Halloween, which brings us to...

One of the worst big budget horror movies of the past decade:  Halloween II.  How are we supposed to care about Laurie when she's become such a ratty ass, irritating douchebag?  Heck, I had a hard time caring about Danielle Harris's character, and it's pretty hard for me to NOT LIKE her.  I always loved Pleasence's nutty Loomis, but McDowell's, particularly in this one, was just terrible.  Then he gives his wife an even bigger, nonsensical role that had me holding my head.  I just wanted it to be over.  I know he wanted to make these movies dark and brutal, but did they have to be so shitty?  Give me Halloween 6:  The Curse of Michael Myers ANY day of the week.  At least it's fun in a so-bad-it's... er, fun way.

I even tried watching that El Superbeasto cartoon.  Didn't make it past 30 minutes.  No, I won't give it another chance.  I don't think filmmaking is RZ's calling.  Hell, I don't think making "music" is his calling either, BUT some sick part of me wants to give Lords of Salem a chance even though the plot description sounds lousy.  Who knows, maybe he'll do something good someday.  What can I say?  We horror fans are gluttons for punishment.

Personally, I thought he did an admirable job.  Granted the last half of the remake is basically the first flick condensed down to forty five minutes, but the first half was refreshingly raw and grim, IMO.

House of 1000 Corpses was a fun, solid horror movie. The Devil's Rejects is his masterpiece, IMO. His Halloween remake was great, and I even enjoy Halloween 2. It's certainly the worst of his movies, yes, but after a few watches, I really like it now. I thought Taylor Scout Compton did a great job with continuing the role of Laurie, and personally, I thought it was fun to see the dark side of Loomis. Really looking forward to The Lords of Salem.

Also, his music is awesome. Both his solo stuff and with White Zombie.
His latest disc, Hellbilly Deluxe 2, was a really good horror rock/metal album.

I would love to see him do something really different!