Cool, Daddy-O.

I must commend Mr. Zombie for keeping his fans abreast of this film's progress [many of us are interested] and also kudos to BD for bring us this news.

I have listened to Rob's music for a long time, and really enjoyed it. Then when he did the animation for Beavis and Butthead Do America, I thought it was pretty neat. I read the screenplay for the Crow: 2037 and thought, well in a Vandamme Cyborg kinda way it seemed to be a no-brainer thriller, but I felt he should stick with song lyrics. Then he did House of 1000 Corpses, which I was with him on it, until the film went underground in the house, and then I became overwhelmed with too much going and not enough really pretaining to the paper thin plot. While he did seem to rip off movies like the original Chainsaw and Chainsaw 2 with it, it had potential, so I hung on. Reject's was a staunch improvement in everyway, so when Halloween was announced, I thought (being the hardcore Carpenter fan, hey I love Village of the Damned) this was the way to go! One major thing that bothered me about the illfated film was that to me it became a "look who is in my movie", and too many wink wink, nudge nudge moments, and not enough just telling the story and building atmosphere. This picture, and the whole "Chainsaw 2 reunion" is further proof of his resultant behavior of not letting go, and making the most of some no names or some people that could become genre legends in their own right. And I still want an explanation that is good for the return of Michael and Loomis, because his need to keep it "real, and gritty" are starting to wane. Don't say those things, and then resort to the slasher gimmicry. if you wanna make a slasher and use the gimmicry then that is fine, just don't say you won't and then write such. So I hope he has an ace up his sleeve, and doesn't use the Patrick Duffy method of resolving things. And then story wise already, I am not sure why he wants us to connect to Michael. So what if he is a white-trash child, and nurture wins out over nature (as Nature was John Carpenter's choice of evil), I really wanted to have the average build, force of nature that haunted me as a child back from the original. Nick Castle is not a 6'5", 350lb nightmare, he is a nightmare because no matter what, he can not be stopped. He was evil incarnate. And for the record, I found that a 6 year old middle-upper class child snapping with no instigation a lot more disturbing. I will still give Rob a chance to make an enjoyable piece, but I have some serious reservations thanks to H1. Try hard Rob, you are a very creative person and I think you can strike gold twice.

The film looks like it will pick up right after RZ's Halloween and other news says that Laurie will work in the coffee shop so does that mean that everything will have a year later or years later? I wish he would release a synopsis of the movie. I still not sure how I should feel about this movie I want to get excited but I feel like I might get let down.

Alright! I can't wait to see what Dr. Maple does!!!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is one of my favorites! Really looking forward to this H2! Best of Luck to all involved and thanks for the pics and updates!

It's just awesome to see Caroline W. back in horror. Hope the movie doesn't suck though.

i live a few miles away from where there making this film so get to see some pretty cool sh*t!

Not sure if it was announced but it looks like Dourif has also returned as Brackett: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/3315875498_208eb50fe6.j pg?v=0 (picture from set)

1000 corpses was good, rejects was a shit load better! (one of my all time favs,thanks rob!) H1 pretty good. ill stand behind ya on H2 rob. never liked his music, but love his take on horror!

Roll on august

It's Stretch! Nice to see an old face from the 80's.

stretch rules now lets put lefty in there as a cop lol

They are really getting me pumped up to see this movie. I REALLY can't wait to see it. Keep up the great work ROB!!

this is awesome and all but uhh. . . didnt bill die in the 1st one?

I am still on the RZ bus. Yes, his remake of Halloween was flawed, however it was much better than 90% of the bullshit out there. The Devil's Reject is a classic and Corpses is much better than just "good" and I love it's conglomeration of classic films that only a true fan of the genre would recognize I saw it as a homage rather than a rip off. Not being a fanatic about the original Halloween, my expectations were probably a bit different. I wasn't excited about a remake. I was pumped up because RZ was directing. I feel exactly the same about this film. Love ya Bor and hell yes! it is great to see Caroline.

but how is moseley going to be in this one? flash back? i mean myers kills him in the escape in the theatrical version

They will recast moseley in a another role in H2. He just played a cop that was killed in H1,nobody will remember that guy. And if you consider the Directors Cut the official version of H1 than Moseley wasn't in it at all,so I guess it works out one way or the other. I must say as cool as it is to have Williams back in horror I did not really like Texas Chainsaw 2 very much. It was too cheesy in my opinion and Dennis Hopper was so ridiculous in that movie. Unfortunately I have to say that the only thing I enjoyed about TCM 2 were the makeup effects from Tom Savini. That man was and ALWAYS will be the ultimate god of gore fx. KNB are good as well but not as good as Savini was. I wish he would continiue to do make up fx in horror movies. But overall I liked the both PD Texas Chainsaw movies a LOT better than TCM Part 2-4. Well and back to the pic above: So Williams is gonna play a nurse or female doctor. I like that. Maybe she is one of the doctors getting killed by Michael (akin to Mrs Alves in the original Halloween II). I love that he keeps the whole hospital theme for Part 2. Halloween II was the best sequel of the franchise anyway and a lot of that was cause of the hospital scenario in my opinion. And a hospital at night can be damn creepy,I can tell you that. So far all pictures and spoilers indicate that this will be wonderful sequel and a kick-ass movie. Keep it coming Rob,my man.

Who cares if Bill is playing another character. There's this great movie from 1981 called Raiders of the Lost Ark. Vic Tablian played 2 characters in that movie. He was in the beginning and was killed off then he played the guy with a monkey later on.

TCM2 is one of my favorites! Welcome back Caroline Williams. While not the biggest fan of RZ's Halloween, I'll have to see if he can pull this one off.

TCM 2 sucked. Only the make up fx were awesome. The both Bay-Texas Chainsaws were a lot better than 2 and the crappy 3 and 4. Period.

SO pumped for this movie...

Wow it just seems like to me he to busy casting people from other classic horror films. I hated the first one so I'm definetly NOT looking forward to the sequel. RZ is a fucking hack man and I won't even begin to give a list of reasons why because it's just to many to list. The orginal will always be a calssic and RZ will never be able to come close to making even half as musc as a masterpiece as the orginal.

He will never surpass the original. He never wanted to. What did Clive Barker say about the origonal Hellraiser? "It's always gonna be there" Nobody is taking the original away. Rob wants to make it his own,he does not want to take on the original. It's just based on the basic elements on the idea of it. When will people get that this is NOT about the original. It never was. It's just a new way to tell the story instead of doing another crappy sequel (Can you say Resurrection?) who really expected that Rob wants to replace the original Halloween with his rebooted version is naive and (I'm sorry) incredibly stupid. He never tried to compete with the original. some people act like he wanted to make the original forgotten and failed in that attempt. That was never the idea. They're just two different stories about the same characters. And nobody was ever forced to choose between them.

Can not wait!! Love RZ's Halloween