Rob Zombie is so likably intelligent in interviews, and such a good-humored showman in his musical career, that the crass, overripe yet undercooked nature of his screenplays comes as a continual disappointment. When it looks like it actually might (not for all, of course), the baddies’ secret weapon is summoned in the form of another cackling meanie in scary clown makeup: this one called Doom-Head (Richard Brake), whom we’ve already met in a prologue. They have 12 hours to survive the onslaught, at which time they’ll be freed - though their bet-placing captors place very long odds on that happening. That leaves girly-show dancer Charly (Sheri Moon Zombie), the much older Venus (Meg Foster), Panda (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), Levon (Kevin Jackson) and Roscoe (Jeff Daniel Phillips) in a trap-laden maze where they are serially laid siege to by the aforementioned evil little person (Pancho Moler), three chainsaw-wielding clowns, and a couple of full-sized Aryan “master race” caricatures (Elizabeth Daily, Torsten Voges). Which is basically “The Most Dangerous Game” meets “Saw,” plus elements of Oliver Stone’s “Seizure,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and so on. Soon several of the travelers are dead, and the others hauled forcibly to some sort of abandoned industrial compound where three aristos in Louis XIV powder and wigs (Malcolm McDowell, Judy Geeson and Jane Carr) inform them they are now playing the “game” of 31. After a stop at a creepy gas station, they’re halted by a line of scarecrows blocking a dusty rural road. Who the F.The protagonists here are an RV-full of potty-mouthed, grab-handy carnys driving to their next gig on Halloween in 1976. 2001's The Sinister Urge fared similarly, but after that he focused more on film for a while, tapping into his lifelong love of horror movies and directing his first feature, 2003's "House of 1000 Corpses" followed in 2005 by "The Devil's Rejects." Zombie released 2006's Top 5 album Educated Horses before shifting back to film for the 2007 remake of the classic horror movie "Halloween." Thereafter he would continue to pursue his dual loves or music and movies, constantly shifting back and forth between the two, but never losing his status as a hard-rock icon. 5 and eventually earning triple Platinum status. Zombie had already started cutting his first solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe, before the band's 1998 split, and he released it that year, achieving even more success than White Zombie, reaching No. The 1995 follow-up, Astro-Creep: 2000, was even more successful. ![]() ![]() 26, earning a Grammy nomination for the single "Thunder Kiss '65, and eventually going double Platinum. Their first LP, Soul-Crusher, arrived two years later, but it was the band's third album and major-label debut, La Sexorcisto that broke them to a wider audience, reaching No. With a sound that blended alternative with noise rock and metal with a horror film aesthetic, they self-released their 1985 debut EP, Gods on Voodoo Moon, that same year. In 1985 he started White Zombie with girlfriend Sean Yseult on bass, Ena Kostabi on guitar, and Peter Landau on drums. He was born Robert Bartleh Cummings on Januin Haverhill, Massachusetts, and relocated to New York to study at Parsons School of Design. After becoming a major force in alternative rock and metal as the leader of White Zombie, Rob Zombie went on to become even more successful as a solo artist, as well as becoming a high-profile horror filmmaker.
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