By Lee Pfeiffer
Rob Zombie, who apparently has to base even his home movies on other people's concepts, has announced his latest remake: the 1958 schlock horror classic
The Blob, which afforded Steve McQueen an early starring role. Zombie told Variety, ""My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first
thing I want to change...That gigantic Jello-looking
thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would
laugh now." The fact that Zombie doesn't realize that having "a gigantic Jello-looking thing" is the entire
point behind the film's enduring legacy doesn't bode well for the remake. Does Zombie really think that after a half-century of being regarded as a bad movie classic, he can get anyone to take the concept seriously? Zombie, who is the "creative" force behind the recent
Halloween remakes, isn't even the first to revisit
The Blob. Actor Larry Hagman directed a tongue-in-cheek 1972 sequel
Beware! The Blob and there was a 1988 big screen remake of the original. So, Zombie is planning a remake of a remake of a film for which a sequel was already made. For more
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