The Films of Rob ZombieBUY on CreateSpace BUY on Amazon A Renaissance Man working in diverse media - music, literature, graphic design, television - Rob Zombie has also written and directed six feature films in a little over a decade, presenting a vision of the world and of cinema that is uniquely his own. The consistency of style and rigorous ideas in these films make him a filmmaker to be reckoned with as much as any in his age group. Bleak and uncompromising works like The Devil's Rejects (2005), Halloween II (2009) and The Lords of Salem (2013) demonstrate that he is not merely a rock star taking a stab at directing movies on the side but one who has contemplated the legacy of horror, and film in general, and is admirably confident that his own tastes and interests are valid and will ultimately reach a sympathetic audience even if mainstream critics are largely unmoved. His films thus far qualify loosely as 'horror' but are actually sobering chronicles of madness derived from sources as varied as Herzog, Kubrick, Lynch, Russell and Polanski. |