ZOMBIE SWITCHES BETWEEN MOVIES AND MUSIC

Rob Zombie switches between his successful film work in Halloween and music being on tour this fall with Ozzy Osbourne.

Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween sat at Number 6 this week, but he’s set himself up nicely for long-term stamina having the movie released nearly two months before the popular holiday. Zombie’s music career is set to relaunch as he will tour with Ozzy Osbourne this fall and winter.

The orginal Halloween was released in 1978, and Zombie talked about what he brings to expand on the Halloween movie legacy.

“Whereas in the original, young Michael was the first five minutes of the movie. Act two is older Michael in the sanitarium, which we didn’t get any of that in the first one. We got his escape, but that was it.”

Zombie also talked about his approach to the film.

“Well John Carpenter is a very distinctive style how he shot. It’s very long and slow and I was like, ‘What if somebody shot Halloween in the style of 21 Grams or The Constant Gardener. It’s immediately a different movie, even if it’s the same movie. And as soon as I said that people said, ‘Oh, now I can see how that could work. So, that’s sort of the approach I took.”

Zombie hits the road with Ozzy starting October 18, but on October 23 he’ll release Zombie Live, an in-concert recording from his 2006 tour in support of the studio release Educated Horses.