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Rob Zombie on Halloween 2
By Fred Topel | Images property of Dimension Films
Rob Zombie distinguished his Halloween by spending the first half dealing with Michael Myers’ troubled childhood. He delves even further into Michael’s psyche in Halloween II.
Rob Zombie Directs Michael
“We don’t want people to feel bad for Michael Myers necessarily, but I don’t want him to just be like oh, he’s the villain, he’s scary, blah blah blah,” Zombie said. “That’s why I like giving him something he never had much in the other movies, making him more of a character. It’s a little bit like you kind of might feel a little bit bad because he’s this big hulking monster who’s basically still got the brain of a 10-year-old boy from the time he’s been locked away his whole life. I would say it’s like the Frankenstein scenario. No matter what he does, it’s this sort of misunderstood monster scenario. I always find that more interesting. I guess from growing up with all those early movies, I always had that motif.”
The stunted childhood manifests itself in a vision of a white horse, with the ghost of his mother and his younger self watching of Michael’s grown-up kills. “The white horse thing is I was just trying to find some significant thing that would be a through line. It could’ve been anything. It’s not like that’s so significant but it was just some minor event from young Michael’s life that he has stuck in his brain that I could then tie through to Laurie. White horse is such a great visual image. Then when I started researching these meaning of dream type books, even though it seems like a bunch of bullshit to me, they all sort of had a lot of significance with the white horse. It just seemed like the perfect childlike image to carry through.”
Halloween II
While Halloween included the original story in Zombie’s version, Zombie’s sequel has little to do with the Halloween II that followed in 1981. “This film to me is more of a logical follow-up to The Devil’s Rejects. Halloween seemed like a weird sidestep. I think because it was someone else’s material, it kind of messed with me. I made the first half of the movie more my thing and then the second half of the movie I felt, well, I should bring in more John Carpenter beats because that’s what people are going to be expecting. But as soon as I started doing that, I don't think I had quite the enthusiasm for the film that I did when it was new stuff. The fun of it is creating your world. Then when you’re going oh, it’s Annie Brackett and Linda and Laurie, it just was like well, these are someone else’s characters. That’s why in this movie, I tried to flip them all upside down and make them my characters.”
The sequel was still rushed through the studio system, which Zombie lamented. “Except for The Devil’s Rejects, I feel that everything has been compromised in some way by scheduling. The Devil’s Rejects was the only movie I ever made that had no release date. We worked on it and worked on it until we got it right, or at least we felt like we got it right. We looked at it and went, ‘There’s nothing else I want to change, nothing else I want to do.’ I’ve never had that luxury since. I don't know what would be different. The thing is, editing is a crucial time and when you get rushed through that process, you’re never 100% sure that you’ve got exactly the perfect take of every actor, the perfect moment because there’s so much footage to go through and it’s so time consuming. You do your best to deal with the time that you have.”
H2 opens to theaters on August 28th.
For the poster, trailer, stills and more movie info, go to the H2 Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Images property of Dimension Films
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