Halloween 2.

A friend and I used to listen to a lot of White Zombie when we were in high school. It's funny thinking back on it now. Knocking around the Inland Empire with La Sexorcisto in the tape deck. Funny because this isn't the sort of thing I would listen to today and I'm no longer in contact with that friend either. We get older and drift away from the younger version of ourselves and the characters that surround us. On top of it all, the idea of being that into a band seems to me like something so typical of us as teenaged girls. Not that adults aren't into bands, but you hit a certain age and it's not likely you have photos of Rob Zombie in your backpack and spend hours with your friend wondering what his and Sean's rockstar lifestyle affords them. Wow, we were really dorky and am still sort of like that; the other girls were probably out doing meth (909!) and getting abortions. [I really should stop using big canvas backpacks. They make me look 13. Sometimes they don't let me vote because of it.]

White Zombie is a fairly cheesy thing to be into. I know this. I knew it back then. I think that was part of its appeal for me. I got it. I'm not sure my friend did, but I got the references. I understood. I like cheese. I actually did like some of his music videos. So, even today when I look at Rob Zombie, I can appreciate him on some level. He gets a lot of extra credit in my book for his short stint as a production assistant on Pee-wee's Playhouse. That's a little nugget of information I culled during our obsessive-high-school-girl-years.

I wasn't expecting much from Rob Zombie the film director. I guess sometime after I graduated from college he became a director? I didn't get that memo. I hadn't heard anything about him since high school. I was very excited after seeing House of 1000 Corpses--I thought it was brilliant. Less so about the sequel, The Devil's Rejects--I was unhappy with his shift toward westerns. Finally, I watched his take on the classic horror film, Halloween, as part of our Inland Empirical movie watching project back in October. Zombie's reimagining is a masterpiece. Why did I doubt he could make a decent horror film? His lifelong love for the genre was put into this piece. Absolutely loved it and not just because I was watching the Halloween series in order and it followed a slew of terrible films.

Anyhow, that's enough bla bla...Getting the point of this post, Rob's Halloween II comes out on DVD tomorrow, Jan. 12. I have it queued up in my Netflix and it should be arriving Wednesday sandwiched between some Battlestar Galactica discs. I hear it's awful! But, I am a completist. I was never able to sign off on the project because the last film on the list was not in theaters so I've patiently waited until now. SO, if you haven't seen this last one either, this week you will be able to. See you in Haddonfield.

Update: Looked at my Netflix and it says there's a 'short wait.' Hoping my return discs get ahead of the pack tonight before the film gets backordered like Inglourious Basterds and The Hangover. On the brightside, there's always more BSG.