Halloween re-boot director Rob Zombie has set his sights on the amorphous terror of The Blob. The 44-year-old director will helm the third version of this tale of terror (after the 1958 Steve McQueen original and the 1988 Chuck Russell remake), with principal photography set for next spring.

Those Blob-fans - if such there be - worried that Mr. Zombie is going to muck about with the appeal of the original are perhaps right to be worried...

"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing - that's the first thing I want to change," the director revealed to Variety. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now....I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to."

So it's basically looking to be the first Blob movie with...no blob?

Zombie is currently set to launch Halloween II for Dimension Films, following up on his 2007 reboot of the classic John Carpenter chiller.

Variety