rob zombie
Born January 12, 1965 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
Born Robert Bartleh Cummings, Rob Zombie rose to fame as a founding member of the popular heavy metal band White Zombie. His music was featured in several horror films before he transitioned to horror director in 2003 with House of 1000 Corpses. His sequel, The Devil's Rejects (2005) pleased horror fans as a disturbing and intelligent depiction of appalling human behaviour.
In 2007, Zombie bravely took on the daunting task of remaking John Carpenter's beloved classic Halloween. Zombie's modern take on the famous serial killer Mike Meyers moves away from Carpenter's ambiguity and explains the killer's origins as the result of the monstrous nature of his social surroundings as a child. Instead of depicting horror as something that lies on the outskirts of mainstream society, Zombie adds to the modern horror film's introspective social critique that demands intellectual engagement from the audience.
Born Robert Bartleh Cummings, Rob Zombie rose to fame as a founding member of the popular heavy metal band White Zombie. His music was featured in several horror films before he transitioned to horror director in 2003 with House of 1000 Corpses. His sequel, The Devil's Rejects (2005) pleased horror fans as a disturbing and intelligent depiction of appalling human behaviour.
In 2007, Zombie bravely took on the daunting task of remaking John Carpenter's beloved classic Halloween. Zombie's modern take on the famous serial killer Mike Meyers moves away from Carpenter's ambiguity and explains the killer's origins as the result of the monstrous nature of his social surroundings as a child. Instead of depicting horror as something that lies on the outskirts of mainstream society, Zombie adds to the modern horror film's introspective social critique that demands intellectual engagement from the audience.
In each of his films, Rob Zombie is keen to intersperse the action with sequences that simultaneously highlight the constructed status of the artifact while giving the present narrative a more complex sweep and scope. [...] He also indulges in the use of colour filters and various baroque transitions, all of which destabilize our notions of narrative "truth" and call into question any easy assumptions we may be inclined to make about ourselves, the world we inhabit and the ways in which that world may be accurately represented."
Blake, Linnie. ""I Am the Devil and I'm Here to Do the Devil's Work": Rob Zombie, George W. Bush, and the Limits of American Freedom." In Horror After 9/11 World of Fear, Cinema of Terror. Eds Aviva Briefel & Sam J. Miller. University of Texas Press: Austin, 2011, p.192
- Ndalianis, Angela. The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses. McFarland & Company: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2012, p.16, 17
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- Interview with IndieWire: Rob Zombie on Going for Broke With 'Lords of Salem' and Why Making a Third 'Halloween' Movie Would Be "Masochistic" (April 15, 2013)