Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombieis an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. Zombie rose to fame as a founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie, releasing four studio albums with the band. Zombie's first solo effort was a song titled "Hands of Death"with Alice Cooper, which went on to receive a nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards. He released his debut solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe in 1998. The album went on to sell...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth12 January 1965
CityHaverhill, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.
I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.
I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.
All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate light. I was like just watch how many accidents and deaths horror causes. Whereas I don't think anybody is going to go: "Oh, I just saw The Shining and I think I'm going to go axe somebody!" These movies aren't for everybody. The dark side of anything isn't for everybody. I think that you have to have some sort of responsibility in how you portray it because I always want the violence to seem real and if it seems disgusting then good, because it should.
Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.
I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.