Quentin Tarantino talks his Halloween 6, praises Rob Zombie
Dec 17, 2019 12:35:47 GMT
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You started your whole [podcast] with Halloween. You know, the first Halloween was fantastic, but the sequels were horrible.
Oh, they’re awful.
They’re like fruit from a poison tree because Laurie is not the brother of the Shape.
Yeah, which is why I don’t like the second one because it makes that revelation.
It’s horrible that it does that.
It just totally takes away everything that was great about the original one because he was just The Shape.
Absolutely, he’s just The Shape. There’s something far more scary that he’s going through Haddonfield and it’s just her.
Yes, and she’s just the babysitter, you know? That’s what I didn’t like about this new one, either. It took away from the great ending, where he’s anywhere now. That’s the whole appeal of the breathing at the end. But anyways, I’ll be obsessed with this franchise forever.
Danielle Harris gives a fantastic performance in those movies. She does what she can to make it legit, but it’s just that horrible idea that John [Carpenter] and Debra [Hill] threw in the movie that ruined the entire franchise.
I wonder if it’s because the Empire Strikes Back had come out the year beforehand, and they were like, “Well, I guess we need to have some familial twist.”
I think they just yanked some idea out of their ass, alright, and they just talked themselves into “Hey, well, this is why…” and now part two has a reason.
Carpenter credits it to a six-pack these days. Hilarious.
Okay, I’ll throw in one of the controversial thing about Halloween, though.
Because you were attached for six at one point?
Yeah, yeah, well, way before I’d ever done anything … it would have been if I had done it — I never got hired — but it would have been my job to figure out who the guy in the boots is.
Exactly. Because the director of five had no idea. They were just like, “Ah, let’s put him in.”
Yeah, I was like, “Leave that scene where [the Man in Black] shows up, alright, and freeze Michael Myers.” And so the only thing that I had in my mind — I still hadn’t figured out who that dude was — was like the first 20 minutes would have been the Lee Van Cleef dude and Michael Myers on the highway, on the road, and they stop at coffee shops and shit and wherever Michael Myers stops, he kills everybody. So, they’re like leaving a trail of bodies on Route 66.
With the mask on and everything? [Laughs.]
Yes!
That would be hilarious … in another world.
But the thing is now, I am a big fan of the Rob Zombie Halloweens. When I saw the first one, I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the aesthetic. I didn’t like everything that he added to it and then the last hour just becomes this fast forward remake of the first one. What the fuck is all this shit? Eight months later, I watched it on video … and I really liked them once I got all the preconceptions out of my head. That kid [Daeg Faerch] is really good. I mean, what did I think Rob Zombie was going to do with it? Do I want him to do something else? I like his Sam Peckinpah aesthetic. So, now that I didn’t have a bug up my ass about it, I was actually able to appreciate it. And again, it’s that kid who got me into it, and Danielle Harris is fantastic.
She’s great in the second one, too.
She steals the second one if you asked me, but Brad Dourif is terrific in it. And then the second one is really great because it completely can now go on its own.
Oh, they’re awful.
They’re like fruit from a poison tree because Laurie is not the brother of the Shape.
Yeah, which is why I don’t like the second one because it makes that revelation.
It’s horrible that it does that.
It just totally takes away everything that was great about the original one because he was just The Shape.
Absolutely, he’s just The Shape. There’s something far more scary that he’s going through Haddonfield and it’s just her.
Yes, and she’s just the babysitter, you know? That’s what I didn’t like about this new one, either. It took away from the great ending, where he’s anywhere now. That’s the whole appeal of the breathing at the end. But anyways, I’ll be obsessed with this franchise forever.
Danielle Harris gives a fantastic performance in those movies. She does what she can to make it legit, but it’s just that horrible idea that John [Carpenter] and Debra [Hill] threw in the movie that ruined the entire franchise.
I wonder if it’s because the Empire Strikes Back had come out the year beforehand, and they were like, “Well, I guess we need to have some familial twist.”
I think they just yanked some idea out of their ass, alright, and they just talked themselves into “Hey, well, this is why…” and now part two has a reason.
Carpenter credits it to a six-pack these days. Hilarious.
Okay, I’ll throw in one of the controversial thing about Halloween, though.
Because you were attached for six at one point?
Yeah, yeah, well, way before I’d ever done anything … it would have been if I had done it — I never got hired — but it would have been my job to figure out who the guy in the boots is.
Exactly. Because the director of five had no idea. They were just like, “Ah, let’s put him in.”
Yeah, I was like, “Leave that scene where [the Man in Black] shows up, alright, and freeze Michael Myers.” And so the only thing that I had in my mind — I still hadn’t figured out who that dude was — was like the first 20 minutes would have been the Lee Van Cleef dude and Michael Myers on the highway, on the road, and they stop at coffee shops and shit and wherever Michael Myers stops, he kills everybody. So, they’re like leaving a trail of bodies on Route 66.
With the mask on and everything? [Laughs.]
Yes!
That would be hilarious … in another world.
But the thing is now, I am a big fan of the Rob Zombie Halloweens. When I saw the first one, I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the aesthetic. I didn’t like everything that he added to it and then the last hour just becomes this fast forward remake of the first one. What the fuck is all this shit? Eight months later, I watched it on video … and I really liked them once I got all the preconceptions out of my head. That kid [Daeg Faerch] is really good. I mean, what did I think Rob Zombie was going to do with it? Do I want him to do something else? I like his Sam Peckinpah aesthetic. So, now that I didn’t have a bug up my ass about it, I was actually able to appreciate it. And again, it’s that kid who got me into it, and Danielle Harris is fantastic.
She’s great in the second one, too.
She steals the second one if you asked me, but Brad Dourif is terrific in it. And then the second one is really great because it completely can now go on its own.