H2

Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting The Weinstein Company is on the verge of financial collapse and only the box-office returns for Rob Zombie’s H2 can save them. According to Finke’s inside sources, TWC only has enough cash reserves to stay afloat until August. In a desperate attempt to save the company, the Weinstein brothers are pulling all of their films from release in order to have enough capital to advertise and distribute Inglorious Bastards and H2. Early reports stated the company’s hopes rested on Tarantino’s WWII film, but the latest update claims the future of the company is riding on Zombie’s sequel. The fate of Forest Whitaker’s Hurricane Season and the big budget Shanghai is in limbo until the company sees the box-office returns for H2.

Zombie has been criticized lately for his drip, drip, drip, approach of releasing information about H2 on the internet. It may annoy fans, but it’s a cheap way of keeping the film’s name alive. Zombie’s actions are much more understandable when one considers the film may have a very limited advertising budget. Making matters worse for Zombie, TWC is releasing IB on August 21, just one week before H2 is set to debut. He’s getting hit with competition from the same company that produced H2.

Check out www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/update-more-on-weinstein-co-meltdown/ for the original article concerning the H2 revelations. There are links to the first two articles concerning TWC’s money woes at the bottom of Finke’s post. Also, Tarantino fans will learn why IB might get butchered worse than one of Michael Myers’ victims.

If you take nothing else from this article, Retro Slasher fans, realize this: The fate of a major Hollywood studio rests in the hands of slasher fans. (Insert your own demonic or evil genius laugh here.)

Today, Rob Zombie published yet more ‘teaser’ images from his latest effort H2 (Halloween 2)

Ever get indigestion? Just like Hobo Myers in full body shots looks like he’s had one too many cheeseburgers from dumpsters, many of us who run horror news sites have been realizing that Rob Zombie has been feeding us scraps. Almost every day there is something “new” to report on. Usually just a single image. And based off each single image or such, a separate news posts is generated by the major horror sites. This ensures H2 is kept in the spotlight but really, all these additional posts are a waste of bitspace. Zombie is just making the internet media work hard to constantly keep up with his bird droppings or bird crumbs (take your pick).

But the sheer ridiculousness of the situation: I think it hit me like a ton of bricks the other day when all the outlets were reporting on the latest singular image to be released from Camp Zombie, and it was just another close-up of the Myers mask – but more importantly, it was horrendously out of focus. Yet this wasn’t a talking point by reporters at all because the “script” for news writers to follow has been “Rob Zombie releases New Halloween 2 Image!” like it’s Groundhog Day. And what happened to Bill Murray? He went crazy and through himself in front of a bus.

Even WIL over at Horror Yearbook recently blew a gasket and has sworn off conducting the standard repetitious reporting of H2. I don’t blame him.

Are you tired of picking up Rob Zombie’s crumbs around the Internet? I am! If I see one more Halloween 2 or Michael Myers picture I may rip my eyeballs out! We have all seen the EXCLUSIVE! clips, behind the scenes videos, pictures, trailers and so on… And now it is time to say, “Enough is enough! I just want to see the damn movie already!”

I remember when I attended the Zombie panel for Halloween at one of the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, and he acted like fans were insane for wanting to know about the film beforehand. Basically his attitude said, “stop asking me questions and just see the damn movie,” and I agree. So he should take his own advice and STOP! Stop putting out the posters, Uncle Coffin/Captain Spalding videos, Michael Myer pictures and let the movie stand on its own.

Read the rest: Horror Yearbook Tired of Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2

When we started our Featured Coverage of H2 here at Retro Slashers, we referenced Rob Zombie’s unorthodox methods but had some good things to say about the film so far. And as time has passed we have tried to be selective in our coverage and collect materials together before posting them. But the glut of substandard publicity material has oversaturated the internet and it needs to be stated. So Mr. Zombie, instead of worrying we will forget about your film if we’re not reminded every single day, how about posting less photographic outtakes passed up as publicity photos, and letting a little silence linger between genuinly enticing materials. It’ll do a world of good.

Several new shots in this video, which show that Hobo Myers also walks like a Hobo. I feel sorry for him and want to point him to the nearest soup kitchen. HALLOWEEN 2: Anticipated Horror Sequel, or Modern-Day Parable For Social Injustice?

For the first time since the 80’s, MTV are relevant to me – as they’ve posted this clip from Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN 2. It’s the first indication of the film’s content so give it a view. If I were a betting man I’d say it’s a dream sequence.

Source: MTV

Wow. Rob Zombie has been promoting HALLOWEEN 2 more then making it, seemingly. Can be a good thing, can be a bad thing. But we’ve recently noticed that anytime genre fans don’t like something specific coming out of his camp, he renounces it.

Whatever side of the fence you sit on regarding Rob Zombie’s take on Michael Myers, H2: Halloween 2 is the most anticipated slasher of 2009 behind Platinum Dunes‘ Friday the 13th reboot. Some have praised the director’s new direction, whilst the hardcore fans have blasted him for perverting the character from John Carpenter’s original vision

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Forget Eric Freeman, there’s a new slasher in town taking care of the ‘garbage’, though perhaps not in the way you might think! View below…

Our screenshots of both Standard and Hobo Deluxe versions of Mad Mike from the H2 Trailer for your perusal and dissection. Click for full size.