Do you have a link to that column? I'd like to read it.
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Originally Posted by leezuki
For me, he's someone who loves horror movies, has delivered when being original but somehow fell into the remake/reimagine trap.
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Yeah he is much better when doing his own stuff.
The Devil's Rejects really showed he was growing as a film maker and writer. I'm one of the few that enjoyed his
Halloween flicks especially the second one. I don't think he would've really had much of a choice in being steered into the remake wagon as the majority of big studio output in recent years has been remakes. They make money so that's what will get green lighted. I think we'll see some great work from him in years to come. It's still early days really.
He's definitely a figure that's almost cool to hate. I've lost count of the amount of posts I've read over the years since
House Of 1000 Corpses releases bagging on him. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course but it cracks me up how mentioning he sucks (along with remakes suck) is usually an opening line from a lot of noobs to the genre throw out there to try and gain some cred. It's so fucking sheepish.
Zombie's style is IMO handles the self reflexive style of cinema that draws from the past with more subtlety than say Tarantino's work. I didn't hear nearly as big of an uproar screaming "RIPOFF!!" upon the release of
Kill Bill or
Inglourious Basterds. Both those films more blatantly ripped off other films than either
House Of 1000 Corpses or
The Devil's Rejects ever did. But that's a whole other thread :p
...so to make a long story short I think he's one of the better directors in recent memory with a really distinct style. Miles ahead of the likes of Adam Green, James Wan and Eli Roth.