[j. d. worthington]

I'm afraid I'll have to agree. Though I think Zombie has some talent, and I'm all for trying to do something different if you're going to do a remake (a dubious proposition in the first place, given their track record), I've seen quite a few clips, trailers, etc., for this one, and it does look like an unmitigated mess, turning what could be (and was intended to be) an archetypal, nearly-identityless character into someone specifically human... thus reducing the dimensions of the whole thing into simply another slasher film. (Besides, there was something very appropriate in the nearly black eyes of the original which blue eyes just lack... it robs it of any sort of frisson.)

I'll admit that I'm one of those who likes the original, though as much for some of the implications as for what is actually put on the screen.... Here, though, what I'm seeing so far is very, very disappointing coming from someone whose work was, though seriously flawed, nonetheless showing promise. Frankly, I'd much rather have something original from Zombie and see him grow in his own right... especially with that uneasy blending of very dark humor and stark horror (and often brutal explicitness) that made his films just a leetle different than what normally comes down the pike....