Rob Zombie? Really?

Death-metal star and budding film director Rob Zombie somehow hornswaggled someone into letting him remake a film that needs no remake: director John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween.

The original starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance, and although it set the formula for all the pale imitator slasher films that came after it, Carpenter’s original film had more in common with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho than it did Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses.

Oh well; looks like dreck will rule the day once Zombie’s pale imitator hits theaters this weekend. And launching in late August? What’s up with that? Everyone knows the best Halloween movies have debuted in early October.

But I guess Hollyweird considers it a good business opportunity, in much the same way as the unnecessary remake of another John Carpenter/Jamie Lee Curtis collaboration, “The Fog,” was a few years ago.