Rob Zombie's remake of THE BLOB will not be blobby

Rob Zombie, whose Halloween II crashes into theaters today, tells Variety that for his next film he plans to stray outside of horror and remake a campy sci-fi classic of sorts: The Blob. Only his Blob will be somehow less... blobby.

“My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing — that’s the first thing I want to change,” Zombie said. “That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.”

True enough. But Rob... It's the Blob. A blob is, by definition, blobby, blob-esque, blobular. The Blob just is a gigantic Jello-looking thing, and to make it anything else is folly. Saying you intend to have a Blob who is not a "big red blobby thing" is like saying you're making a werewolf movie where the werewolf isn't all werewolf-y.


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