Nachdem seine beiden Filme "The Devil's Rejects" und "House of 1000 Corpses" bereits solide Hommagen an Slasher-Movies waren, dreht Rob Zombie jetzt ganz offensichtlich ein Remake und bringt Carpenters 1978er Dauerbrenner "Halloween" erneut auf die Leinwand - leicht modifiziert allerdings! Rob:"I basically went back and just came up with the idea of basically - not essentially a remake, but a very extended prequel sort of combined with an update, say, of the first film. You're starting from scratch but in sort of a more detailed way. That's the way I thought it would be exciting for fans of the original, because it's not just the same old thing, and it would be exciting for people that never saw the original."