New Trailer for Zombie’s H2 Has Serious Mommy Issues

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 24, 2009

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Visionary director Rob Zombie has just released the new trailer for H2, his film about a deadly hydrogen molecule on a killing spree.  Check it out below.

Zombie’s 2007 remake of the John Carpenter classic left quite a bit to be desired… like style, subtlety, and suspense.  I blame most of that on his decision to make it an origin film focusing on Michael as a troubled young girl, but it’s also no secret that the man is a pretty one-note director in general.  (And that one note involves a love of white trash.)  The sequel picks up directly after the first film’s finale, and should feature more adult Michael than snot-nosed Michael.  While it does begin in the hospital, a la Carpenter’s original sequel, Zombie says the similarities end there.  Judging by the trailer, I’d say he’s right.

Now Michael wears a hoodie.

I expect to hate this based solely on the shitiness of Zombie’s previous three films, but I’d be lying if I said this trailer didn’t have potential.  Yes the hoodie is silly looking, but Michael seems more menacing than he has in the past.  The violence and scares look like they may actually be intense.  But then I’m reminded that this is a Zombie film after all… Sheri Moon nepotism rears it’s ugly head in the form of Michael’s mother appearing as some kind of ghost or vision encouraging him to do bad things.  Some folks are already complaining that this brings Michael closer to a Jason-type killer with mother issues…

H2 is currently scheduled for an August 28, 2009. You can also view the trailer in High Definition over on Yahoo.

How does H2 look to you?  Better than K2 (the mountain climbing thriller) or P2 (the parking garage thriller)?


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  • My response (as seen on Twitter): H2 trailer underwhelming. Myers looks like a hobo wizard. First adjective coming to mind? Taint-stain.

    Follow me @RejectRobert on Twitter for my creative uses of the word taint!
  • "Are you a giant?!"
    That line alone gives the trailer an A. Movie's probably gonna suck though.
  • Chris
    Michael looks like he'd rather wash the windshields of Haddonfield residents than stab 'em, doesn't it? I guess the series can't go anywhere but up after the equvilant of cancer first film, but to what capacity? Shit plus one is still shit, isn't it? Plus the mash up of Halloween and the Living Dead Girl music video doesn't really fill me with hope.

    Zombie really needs to change his tune. The white trash nonsense is getting old.
  • I still don't get Rob Zombie's quest in DESTROYING an original. And what's with the chick stroking his ego? That's what made MM special, he's a solo artist.
  • Malcolm T Grindhouse
    I think the trailer looks like a lovely sequil. People hated House of a thousand corpses but loved The Devils Rejects. I think that Rob Zombie might be one of those directors that makes better sequils then individual films also with the first Rob Zombie Hallloween some of the deleated scenes where better then the stuff in the movie. I think that it was foolish of Rob Zombie to try and recreate a horror franchise and relaunch Halloween. It was hard to watch Halloween 2007 becouse it was such a scattered mess. This film looks a whole lot better
  • I tried watching the first one. I walked out of the theater after seeing Michael knifing his sister. The violence was too much. Normally I don't mind a lot of violence. Maybe it was because it was a kid doing it?

    I love the original films sans number 3. I'll stick to those. I can only hope that in 15-20 years a proper remake will be made.
  • TJL
    I really don't see the point in Michael's Mom returning, other than to give Mrs. Zombie another film credit.
  • Jacob
    I want more music from him, not movies.
  • leon kennedy
    grow up JL tucker

    i hope you dont post reviews, if you dont even have the guts to watch the movie all the way
  • O-Fens
    TJL I agree with you 100 percent about Zombie's wife
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