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First Image From New Rob Zombie Movie 31

Shock-rocker turned filmmaker Rob Zombie is back in the Halloween movie business, six years on from 2009′s ‘Halloween II’ - the sequel to his 2007 ‘Halloween’ remake.

However, given his reboot of the iconic slasher franchise - spawned by John Carpenter’s 1978 classic - has always been hugely divisive among fans and critics, it may come as some relief that this time around Zombie is tackling that most horror-friendly of holidays entirely on his own terms with an original concept.

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The new film is entitled ‘31’ (Zombie’s first effort as writer-director since 2012′s ‘The Lords of Salem’), and Bloody Disgusting just shared the first official image from the in-production horror movie which - as the title might suggest - is set on the 31st of October (although we’re told that’s where all connections to the Michael Myers-based slasher series end).

According to the officially released synopsis, “31 follows five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween and held hostage in a large secret compound known as Murder World. Once there, they have 12 hours to survive a terrifying game called 31 in which ‘The Heads’- murderous maniacs dressed as clowns – are released to hunt them down and kill them.”

Killer clowns are, of course, another Rob Zombie calling card now, thanks to his iconic evil clown character Captain Spaulding, as portrayed by Sid Haig in ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ and ‘The Devil’s Rejects.’

Coulrophobics need not apply, then. That said, nothing appears too conventionally clown-like about the fellow in the picture above, showing actor Richard Brake as a character known as Doom-Head - who, in Zombie’s words, “runs a perfect game of death and misery.”

Other ‘Head’ actors include David Ury as ‘Schizo-Head’, E.G. Daily as ‘Sex-head’, and Pancho Moler as ‘Sick-Head.’ Other colourfully named inhabitants of Murder World include Ginger Lynn as ‘Cherry Bomb’, Jane Carr as ‘Sister Serpent’, and Tracy Walter as ‘Lucky Leo.’

Malcolm McDowell, who starred in Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ movies as Dr Loomis, reunites with the writer-director as Father Dragon, owner of Murder World; and, in what will be no surprise to followers of Zombie’s movies, he’s once again cast his wife Sheri Moon Zombie too.

Independently produced (after the long-established musician and filmmaker controversially funded the film via crowdfunding), ‘31′ does not yet have a distribution deal or release dates in place - though given the setting, we’d assume we’ll be seeing it sometime around either Halloween 2015 or 2016.

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Picture Credit: Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Protagonist Pictures, Spectacle Entertainment Group, WENN