It’s back, and it isn’t even October yet! The latest reincarnation of the oft-told tale of Halloween – this time it is Rob Zombie’s vision of the sick story of Michael Myers – scared its way into Hollywood on Thursday night, with a premiere at the venerable Mann’s Chinese Theater. The flick, which opens on August 31, stars 18-year-old Scout Taylor-Compton in the role that Jamie Lee Curtis made famous. She and veteran actor Malcolm McDowell (who takes over the Donald Pleasance part from the 1978 original) shared a big kiss on the red carpet, then hugged it out with Zombie and his wife Shari Moon, who also stars in the horror flick.
McDowell, whose breakout roles in “If…” and “A Clockwork Orange” came when he was not much older than Taylor-Compton is now, commented at an earlier press day that the ingénue needs to keep her head screwed on straight in order to make it for the long-term in the heady world of Hollywood movies.
“She’s got tremendous talent,” he said. “But it gets to the point where it’s not about talent, it’s about character. It will be really be up to her and her character to see whether she can come through this and move on up. That is the name of the game, and that is what is difficult.”
The actor also wants to make it clear that this new version of “Halloween” is not a slasher movie, despite the grisly murders that take place as the action moves briskly along. “I don’t like slasher movies, but this isn’t one,” he insisted. “I think this is more a classic horror film. I think it’s a sort of Greek Tragedy, isn’t it really? It’s a classic horror movie, the boy next door, that’s the scary part. It’s the boy next door, this angelic child. But it’s really an indictment about mental health, as much as anything else, if you want to get ridiculous about it.”
Joining McDowell, Taylor-Compton, Kristina Klebe, Lorielle New, and the Zombies on the red carpet were the film’s diverse stars, from gigantic Taylor Mane (he takes over as Michael Myers) to horror queen Dee Wallace, ex-Monkee Mickey Dolenz, and a gaggle of the scariest-looking actors working in Hollywood today, including Brad Dourif, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Daeg Faerch, and Danny Trejo. Seeing those guys coming at you, you might just think you stepped into a horror movie, no matter how much the actor doth protest!
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