The film opens with the demolition of the turn of the century prison and the uncovering of a sub-basement structure that houses the 100 year old remains of several brutally slain children. However, this only leads to a more disturbing discovery that eventually unveils a legion of demons and their even more chilling origins.
A simple man, Dr. Walter Newman has high aspirations to cure all disease through genetic manipulation. His obsession with his mission draws him deeper into his own dark world, distracting him from his wife Olivia and from his responsibilities to his patients at the Edgewood Asylum. The doctor’s loyal but diabolical nurse, Ms. Tinsley, decides to take matters into her own hands and in secret she conducts her own experiment.
When Dr. Newman realizes what has been done, a deformed creature that defies nature is created. Part human, part nightmare. Dr. Newman knows what he must do, but is it already too late?
From the singular mind of horror maestro Rob Zombie comes a chilling plunge into a nightmare world where evil runs in the blood. The Lords of Salem tells the tale of Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio station DJ living in Salem, Massachusetts, who receives a strange wooden box containing a record, a “gift from the Lords.” Heidi listens, and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of the town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the “Lords of Salem” returning for revenge on modern-day Salem?
Anchor Bay Films will be releasing Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem on April 26th, 2013. We’ve now received a new teaser one-sheet that’ll give you the blues (again). “We’ve been waiting…we’ve always been waiting,” it states. A new trailer is coming this week.
In the film, “Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?”
Written and directed by Rob Zombie, The Lords of Salem stars Sheri Moon Zombie (House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween) as well as Bruce Davison (X-Men), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Halloween 2), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Dee Wallace (E.T.) and Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love).
Check out Brad’s review of the film along with Mike’s alternate opinion here. Head inside for the pics! READ MORE
Anchor Bay Films will be releasing Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem on April 26th, 2013. And now we’re starting to see more and more from the film as the months until its release wind down. We’ve got four new images today, courtesy of Zombie’s Facebook page. Two of them are stills which feature cleaner looks of Sid Haig and Michael Berryman doing their hobo wiccan thing. And then we’ve got a behind-the-scenes look at Mr. Zombie onset as well as a snapshot of Sheri Moon Zombie and Bill Moseley chilling in between takes.
In the film, “Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?”
Written and directed by Rob Zombie, The Lords of Salem stars Sheri Moon Zombie (House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween) as well as Bruce Davison (X-Men), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Halloween 2), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Dee Wallace (E.T.) and Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love).
Check out Brad’s review of the film along with Mike’s alternate opinion here. Head inside for the pics! READ MORE
Anchor Bay Films will be releasing Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem on April 26th, 2013. If you can’t wait that long, don’t worry. Images and footage will be eking out in steady microdoses until you can actually see the thing. In the meantime – here’s Sid Haig with long hair, a shadow-ensconced Michael Berryman and a robotic looking contraption.
In the film, “Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?”
Written and directed by Rob Zombie, The Lords of Salem stars Sheri Moon Zombie (House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween) as well as Bruce Davison (X-Men), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Halloween 2), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Dee Wallace (E.T.) and Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love).
Check out Brad’s review of the film along with Mike’s alternate opinion here. Head inside for the image! READ MORE
Anchor Bay Films will be releasing Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem on April 26th, 2013. This comes along with the news that the film will be receiving a novelization co-written by Zombie and B.K. Evenson that hits on March 12th, 2013 – just in time to spoil yourselves a month ahead of time like you did back in ’89 with the Batman novelization.
The book has a new, more detailed synopsis. “Heidi Hawthorne is a thirty-seven-year-old FM radio DJ and a recovering drug addict. Struggling with her newfound sobriety and creeping depression, Heidi suddenly receives an anonymous gift at the station-a mysteriously shaped wooden box branded with a strange symbol. Inside the box is a promotional record for a band that identifies themselves only as The Lords. There is no other information. She decides to play it on the radio show as a joke, and the moment she does, horrible things begin to happen. The strange music awakens something evil in the town. Soon enough, terrifying murders begin to happen all around Heidi. Who are The Lords? What do they want?”
Written and directed by Rob Zombie, The Lords of Salem stars Sheri Moon Zombie (House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween) as well as Bruce Davison (X-Men), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Halloween 2), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Dee Wallace (E.T.) and Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love).
Check out Brad’s review of the film along with Mike’s alternate opinion here. Head inside for the cover of the novel and the film’s trailer. READ MORE
The most impressive thing about Rob Zombie is that he’s always been able to operate outside of the studio mentality on a low budget. No matter what the film, he makes what he wants to make (sans the Halloween remake). After using Halloween 2 as a way out of his Dimension deal, he’s stripped it down to the bare minimum with his 1970′s inspired The Lords of Salem (his incredibly low budget indie horror that premiered to a sold out crowd at TIFF’s Midnight Madness). Budget appeared to be little bother but, once again, Zombie pens his own screenplay. And that’s littered with problems. The Lords of Salem is definitely cool to watch, and actually pretty entertaining (at times), but let’s be honest here (Rob Zombie fans sat there with a look of shock and disappointment on their faces, displaying the most fake smile you’ve ever seen), it’s not good.
I know Zombie loves his wife and enjoys putting her on screen, but Sheri Moon Zombie cannot carry a film. Again, this shows that Zombie just does whatever he wants, which is totally cool and all, but it does hurt his product. The Lords of Salem could have just been called the Sheri Moon Zombie show. Nearly every shot is of her walking, her in bed, her playing with her dog, and her kind of-sort of naked. The problem is that it doesn’t really propel the story anywhere and makes the film progress at a snail’s pace. But the biggest issue is that, with all of the striking imagery, Rob doesn’t have Sheri react to any of it; nearly everything that happens is either a vision or off in the corner. Yes, a lot of it is extremely cool, but then some of it is shockingly bizarre (like the tiny Devil-God who looked like a cross between Station from Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey and God in “South Park”).
Some of the best stuff is the flashbacks of the Salem 6 performing rituals and getting burned at the stake. The constant expectation was that these witches would be resurrected and create chaos among the women of Salem, and that would have been dope. Instead, the audience gets slapped in the back of the head (with what feels like a log) with an overly artistic, bizarre and unfulfilling performance by the “Lords of Salem.” This must have been due to one of the following: budgetary constraints, Zombie has surround himself with “yes” men, or he just didn’t give a fuck. I suspect it’s the latter, and for Lords, he didn’t even care about his viewers (I think by now he understands that his fans will like anything he does…they are the supreme “yes” men.)
It would be easy to give Lords a pass. It has genuinely creepy imagery, cool scares, super crazy sound design, and even more mind blowing set designs. But there will be no pass, mainly because of the awkwardly unfulfilling ending and the fact that much of the “cool” doesn’t interact with the characters or plot. Rob Zombie sympathizers are going to eat this up, and will spend their night analyzing the finale as if it were some revelation of brilliance. It’s not. It’s just bad. The Lords of Salem could only be recommended as background visuals while you’re jamming to old school White Zombie.
Below Zero is the true-life story of Jack the Hack, a screenwriter with writer’s block who arranges to have himself locked in a meat cooler in order to meet a looming deadline. As the temperature drops, the lines between reality and fiction blur, and Jack’s story comes to life, exposing him to a world of horror that only a meat freezer can inspire.
After being announced as part of this September’s epic Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness line-up, Bloody has been provided with the second official poster for Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem, which will have its world premiere alongside 9 other fantastic sounding genre flicks. The one-sheet depicts Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon, and the tagline: “We’ve been waiting… We’ve always been waiting.”
In the film, “Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?”
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE
If you’re wondering what Edward Furlong (Night of the Demons, Terminator 2, Crow: Wicked Prayer) has been up to aside from appearing in The Green Hornet, you can now see the full trailer for Justin Thomas Ostensen’s Below Zero, which has apparently dropped the “3D” from it’s name. Screen Media Film will release on home video August 28.
The film also stars Michael Berryman and was penned by Signe Olynyk.
“‘Below Zero’ is the true-life story of Jack the Hack, a screenwriter with writer’s block who arranges to have himself locked in a meat cooler in order to meet a looming deadline. As the temperature drops, the lines between reality and fiction blur, and Jack’s story comes to life, exposing him to a world of horror that only a meat freezer can inspire.”
After being announced as part of this September’s epic Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness line-up, Bloody has been provided with the official poster for Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem, which will have its world premiere alongside 9 other fantastic sounding genre flicks. The one-sheet is bizarrely colorful for a horror film featuring a mummified priest and the tag: “We’ve been waiting… We’ve always been waiting.”
In the film, Heidi, a radio station DJ, receives a wooden box containing a record. Heidi listens and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge on modern day Salem?
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6th-16th. READ MORE
ARTISTdirect caught up with Rob Zombie to talk about his forthcoming album but took a detour into the world of The Lords of Salem, his latest genre outing that’s still in post-production.
“I’m in the final stages of finishing the film. By the end of August, we’ll be done. The sound designers are still creating some of the sound effects for the movie. Once they’re done, I’ll go into the mix stage in August and mix the final sound for the movie. Then, I’ll be done,” Zombie explains.
But what we all want to know is what kind of horror can we expect? Zombie explains that it’s a slow burn with a pretty large payoff. “This movie is definitely a slow psychological burn…It’s a weird movie,” said Zombie. “When you watch it, it seems like there’s not a lot happening for a while. However, what’s happening is you’re starting to get sucked into the pace of the movie though.”
“It’s a very strange movie. I wanted to go against a lot of the conventions that I’ve seen in what are considered horror movies. There are certain things that always happen. I wanted to break away from them. It’s a more psychological movie.” Zombie adds that, while it’s a slow burn, some crazy shit does happen: “Lots of little crazy things happen all the way through it. There’s not one particular thing where you’re flying out of your seat.
“The way it unfolds is like Chinese water torture dripping on you,” jokes Zombie.
Eric Roberts (Batman Begins), Michael Berryman (pictured; The Hills Have Eyes) and Jonathan Silverman (Weekend At Bernie’s) have come onboard Woodhaven Production Co.’s horror thriller Self Storage, shooting in Rhode Island.
Variety reports that Tom DeNucci is directing from his own script, which “centers on a night watchman working at a highly secured self storage facility, where a night of sex, drugs and rock and roll into an evening of pure terror.” Very vague, but I like that!
Roberts is set to play the role of a former secret operative with Berryman as his faithful associate. Tom Paolino, Billy Vigeant, Sera Verdi and Tanja Lynch are also in the cast.
Self Storage is being produced by Chad Verdi, Gino Pereira and DeNucci with Danielle Corsa, David and Sherry Lussier, David Gere, Carl Dupre and Silverman exect producing.
A mini-iron maiden and a rotted corpse are on display in the latest behind-the-scenes look at The Lords of Salem, the Rob Zombie-directed genre pic awaiting its premiere. The image shared displays SFX supervisor Wayne Toth working on some nasty witch business.
Meg Foster, Ernest Thomas, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Torsten Voges, Bruce Dern, Sheri Moon Zombie, Dee Wallace, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Lisa Marie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ken Foree, Bruce Davidson, Christopher Knight, Michael Berryman and Sid Haig all star.
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.“
Rob Zombie has shared yet another 4 photos from his The Lords of Salem, this time displaying stars Pat Quinn, Dee Wallace and Judy Geeson serving up some witches brew, in the form of tea. There’s also a look at Zombie with Meg Foster, Jeff Daniel Phillips as Salem Radio jock Herman “Whitey” Salvador”, and Sheri Moon Zombie as Heidi LaROc.
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.”
Still no word on a release, but it’s worth noting that the Toronto International Film Festival is coming up. It’s quite possible that, since Insidious premiered there, we’ll see Zombie’s latest being snatched up.
Rob Zombie will hopefully be premiering the trailer for The Lords of Salem or making an announcement regarding its release any day now (or any month now). But in the meantime, for those starving for anything Salem, there’s some fly-on-the-wall video from the film’s set that hints that Maria Conchita Alonso’s character might be some kind of (dark and weird) painter.
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.”
Meg Foster, Ernest Thomas, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Torsten Voges, Bruce Dern, Sheri Moon Zombie, Dee Wallace, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Lisa Marie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ken Foree, Bruce Davidson, Christopher Knight, Michael Berryman and Sid Haig all star.
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The Woodhaven Production Company has attached Michael Berryman (The Lords of Salem, The Hills Have Eyes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Star Trek) to its next feature horror film, Self Storage. Berryman will join Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie’s, Inkubus) in the cast.
“‘Self Storage’ tells the story of Jake, the night watchman working at a highly secured self-storage facility. His pals are home from college and looking to party. Jake (played by Tom DeNucci) decides to invite them to his work and throw a fiesta of his own. Innocent mischief turns a naughty night of sex, drugs and rock & roll into an evening of pure terror. Barbed wire fences are meant to keep people out, but these fences keep people in.”
The film is being produced by Verdi, Gino Pereira and Tom DeNucci, with DeNucci directing and Michelle Verdi handling the music supervision.
Producer Chad A. Verdi stated,”We are currently in the final stages of signing an Oscar-nominated actor to play opposite Berryman.“
While we wait for writer-director Rob Zombie to make some sort of announcement regarding The Lords of Salem (we’re hoping for a film festival this coming fall), we’ve now added four colorful new looks at the horror flick that takes us to a quartet of filming locations, while also sharing a new look at Margaret Morgan.
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.”
Meg Foster, Ernest Thomas, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Torsten Voges, Bruce Dern, Sheri Moon Zombie, Dee Wallace, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Lisa Marie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ken Foree, Bruce Davidson, Christopher Knight, Michael Berryman, Sid Haig all star. READ MORE
Insidious and A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Lin Shaye (pictured below right) will be joining horror icons Bill Moseley and Michael Berryman in the new TV Series Pilot “Hell Hunters”, created by Lawrence Donini and directed by Jourdan McClure, says a press release.
Known for some of the most prolific and horrific characters of all time, Lin Shaye will be playing her most terrifying and grotesque role yet; as the disgustingly demented grandmother of young Hazard, Gramma Ethel.
Written by Donini, “‘Hell Hunters’ is an action/horror crime thriller that tells the story of two young childhood friends, that after reading a horrific comic book, decide to become the murderous vigilante characters in real life.” READ MORE
This guy just premiered at the Rob Zombie/Megadeth show last night at the PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey, the trailer for The Lords of Salem! If I’m not mistaken this is the first non-sequel, non-remake Rob Zombie movie in 7 years!
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.” Meg Foster, Ernest Thomas, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Torsten Voges, Bruce Dern, Sheri Moon Zombie, Dee Wallace, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Lisa Marie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ken Foree, Bruce Davidson, Christopher Knight, Michael Berryman and Sid Haig all star.
The quality right now is, of course, VERY shaky. Zombie’s podium is blocking the screen for the first bit (I thought podiums were Manson’s thing), but once the camera pans to the side you can see a some decent footage. It takes place right before “Dragula”. Thanks to YouTube user WrongWayFiend1331 for posting.
Update: May 13th, 934AM PST – We’ve got a better version, courtesy of vwall10411. READ MORE
Those Bloody Disgusting readers attending the Rob Zombie/Megadeth show on Friday 11 May at the PNC Bank Arts Center are in for a real treat. Much like he did with House of 1,000 Corpses, those in attendance will be the first to see the trailer for Zombie’s eagerly awaited new film The Lords of Salem! Expect YouTube leaks immediately thereafter.
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.”
Meg Foster, Ernest Thomas, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Torsten Voges, Bruce Dern, Sheri Moon Zombie, Dee Wallace, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Lisa Marie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ken Foree, Bruce Davidson, Christopher Knight, Michael Berryman and Sid Haig all star.
If you’re wondering what Edward Furlong (Night of the Demons, Terminator 2, Crow: Wicked Prayer) has been up to aside from appearing in The Green Hornet, you can now see the trailer for Justin Thomas Ostensen’s Below Zero. Which has apparently dropped the “3D” from it’s name. Which is fine by me, no reason a film set in this small of a space should also be in 3D.
The film also stars Michael Berryman and was penned by Signe Olynyk. According to the filmmakers, “‘Below Zero is the true-life story of Jack the Hack, a screenwriter with writer’s block who arranges to have himself locked in a meat cooler in order to meet a looming deadline. As the temperature drops, the lines between reality and fiction blur, and Jack’s story comes to life, exposing him to a world of horror that only a meat freezer can inspire.”
That’s not entirely true. The screenwriter came up with the idea and locker herself in a freezer to write the script. Whatever it takes I guess!
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. READ MORE
It’s been quite some time since Rob Zombie shared anything new from his latest horror pic, The Lords of Salem, which is currently in post-production in CA.
Berryman plays “Virgil Magnus”, 50% of a well-known witch hunting duo called The Brothers. Berryman has been shocking audiences for over 35 years in films like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Deadly Blessing and even Weird Science.
He stars alongside Meg Foster, Ernest Thomas, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Torsten Voges, Bruce Dern, Sheri Moon Zombie, Dee Wallace, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Lisa Marie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ken Foree, Bruce Davidson and Christopher Knight.
“The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge. ” READ MORE
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