News from Variety this morning involving half-man half-cliché Rob Zombie, and his attempts to “break out of the horror genre”…by remaking seminal horror The Blob…

Now, this doesn’t make much sense, but Rob is probably smoking a lot of Peyote, so we’ll let it slide for now. Having already suffered the ignominy of Frank Darabont’s 80s do-over, the creeping space jelly that launched Steve McQueen’s career is set to get a whole new look.

“My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing – that’s the first thing I want to change,” Sayeth the erstwhile Superbeast. “That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.”

Having seen ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ STS suggests that laughter may still be on the menu, but expect to see Rob’s wife in the lead sometime in 2011.