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First Watch: Rob Zombie, 'The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God' Rob Zombie mixes horror, humor and heavy metal in this devilish video for his song "The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God."

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Rob Zombie: 'The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God'

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This video is a mix of horror, heavy metal and a dose of Pee Wee Herman humor. "The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God" is over-the-top — in the best of ways — bookended by the devil himself. Musician, film director and producer Rob Zombie emailed his description of his new music video to me. He wrote:
"I figured that a mixture of Three Amigos with a Dia de los Muertos twist by way of the opening credit sequence of Natural Born Killers hosted by a Satanic Paul Lynde would make the perfect video for 'The Life and Times of a Teenage Rock God.'"
The song is from Rob Zombie's sixth album solo album since his days with his band White Zombie. The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser has been out a few months and there's lots of love for this one. The man has sold 15 million records, though these days is known more as a film director, including a remake of John Carpenter's Halloween i n 2007. Give this little film a look and listen, it's more silly than scary and that was just fine for me.
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RELEASE: Blu-ray/DVD/Digital/Netflix: September 27, 2022 PG : for macabre and suggestive material, scary images and language . STARRING : Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie, Daniel Roebuck ⇢
From writer/director Rob Zombie comes the strangest love story ever told.
Lily is just your typical 150-year-old, lovelorn vampire looking for the man of her nightmares…that is until she lays eyes on Herman, a seven-foot-tall, green experiment with a heart of gold. It’s love at first shock as these two ghouls fall fangs over feet in this crazy Transylvanian romance. Unfortunately, it’s not all smooth sailing in the cemetery as Lily’s father The Count has other plans for his beloved daughter’s future, and they don’t involve her bumbling beau Herman.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll howl at the moon as The Munsters make their way to Mockingbird Lane!
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Waxwork Records is thrilled to present THE MUNSTERS Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from Rob Zombie’s brand-new film! The Munsters features new songs by Rob Zombie and a score by Zeuss. The deluxe double LP includes 180 gram “Herman” and “Lily” colored vinyl, heavyweight gatefold jackets with matte satin coating, exclusive liner notes by Rob Zombie, a 24 page booklet, a 12”x12” art print, printed inner sleeves, new artwork by Graham Humphreys, and more!
*This item is a pre-order with an expected street date of October 18, 2022.
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Often casts Sid Haig , Sheri Moon Zombie , Bill Moseley and Tom Towles in his films.

Uses clips of old horror movies in his music videos and films

Often has a character wear face paint

Often has his films take place on Halloween.

Often makes references to 1970s culture

Frequently casts cult horror actors

His brother, Spider One , is lead singer of the metal band Powerman 5000 .

Had originally written the screenplay for The Crow: Salvation (2000), and was also supposed to direct and supervise the music for the movie. Continual clashes with the producers led to his being fired from the film. The screenplay he had written is now the screenplay for Legend of the 13 Graves.

Owns the "Zombie-A-Go-Go" record label.

Once managed his brother's band Powerman 5000 .

His wife, Sheri Moon Zombie , is on the cover of his album "American Made Music to Strip By" (1999).

Designed a maze for Universal Studios' "Halloween Horror Nights" (1999 and 2000).

Drew the hallucination scene in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996).

Draws most of the illustrations on White Zombie 's and his solo CD booklets.

Universal Pictures dropped his film debut House of 1000 Corpses (2003), fearing it would get an NC-17 rating.

One of his favorite horror movies is Black Christmas (1974). He considers the film to be underrated as he first watched it around the holiday season and remembers being terrified of it.

His film House of 1000 Corpses (2003) was inspired mainly by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

Has a pair of boots that he has been wearing for over 20 years.

Is a huge fan of horror movies. Zombies are one of his favorite sub-genres of horror.

Is friends with heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne .

Has a fascination with Charles Manson .

Collector of classic movie posters including horror films and The Marx Brothers comedies, after whom he named several of the characters in House of 1000 Corpses (2003) ( A Night at the Opera (1935)'s Otis Driftwood, Duck Soup (1933)'s Rufus Firefly, Animal Crackers (1930)'s Captain Spaulding, etc.).

Is close friends with his hero Alice Cooper .

Named his first heavy metal band White Zombie , after the Bela Lugosi film White Zombie (1932).

Wants to open up his own night club for unsigned acts.

Member of the unofficial "Splat Pack", a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for the modern wave of directors making brutally violent horror movies. The other "Splat Pack" members are Alexandre Aja , Darren Lynn Bousman , Neil Marshall , Greg McLean , Eli Roth , James Wan and Leigh Whannell .

Is an avid fan of the horror sitcom The Munsters (1964).

Moved to New York at the age of 18.

Although his own movies tend to be very violent, he is a bigger fan of the horror films of the 1930s and 1940s than the later, more violent ones.

Is a vegan and an animal rights activist.

Has a 12-foot stuffed bear in his living-room along with a sarcophagus, an enormous Boris Karloff poster, a green, scaly Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) statue, and real baby bats which have been mounted and framed.

Forbes magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $20 million (2007).

Avoids casting himself or even giving himself cameos in any of his movies. He has said that, as a director, he does not feel comfortable in front of the camera and generally feels that directors should focus on directing rather than being in the film. However, he did have a non-speaking, uncredited cameo at the very beginning of his debut movie House of 1000 Corpses (2003).

Turned down the opportunity to direct Freddy vs. Jason (2003) to work on House of 1000 Corpses (2003).

Is close friends with horror hostess icon Cassandra Peterson (Elvira).

Was rumored to be the director of Evil Dead (2013).

Originally stated he would never do a sequel to Halloween (2007), until the studio decided to make Halloween II (2009). Then he signed on to write and direct, because he did not want someone to ruin his vision. He did not sign on to direct the second sequel Halloween (2018).

Currently resides in Los Angeles, California and Woodbury, Connecticut.

He and his wife, Sheri Moon Zombie , own a black pug named Dracula along with four cats.

Stated that Audition (1999) is the most creepy and unsettling horror movie he has ever seen.

Although some of his most well-known projects are his Halloween remakes ( Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009)), he has publicly stated before that he is not a huge fan of horror movie remakes.

Is a huge fan of the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers (2011).

Is friends with James Gunn and has provided voice work for four of Gunn's movies: Slither (2006), Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).

Has been a huge fan of Groucho Marx since his childhood.

In 2015, he gave his ten favorite horror movies to HitFix. They are, in order: Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Shining (1980), The Exorcist (1973), Nosferatu (1922), Freaks (1932), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931).

Never attends auditions when casting, preferring to judge actors solely on their taped performance rather than the impression he get's from them in person.

He doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs.

His vocal range is a Baritone with a 2.4 Octave Range.

Each feature film that he has directed has included a role for his wife, Sheri Moon Zombie.

[on directing and working for film studios] They hire you and suddenly they don't trust you. And you say, "Well, why did you hire me?" and they say, "We can't tell you."

[SPOILER: commenting on killing off the lead characters in The Devil's Rejects (2005)] That was always the ending and every actor had a complaint about that. I wanted to do it because it seems like nobody makes a movie anymore without a sequel set up. Lions Gate was like "The franchise... It's gone." But you know, that's the problem. I feel like there's never a definitive ending anymore. Every movie ends with the possibility of another one and it drives me crazy. I feel like, "Why did I just invest two hours? It didn't even end." [Zombie later made 3 from Hell (2019), a sequel that brings the three lead characters back from the "dead"...]

I'd just be obsessed with a movie. I'd need more. So we'd make Super-8s at home. It's funny I should remake Halloween (1978), because one of the movies I made as a kid in high school was a sequel to [ John Carpenter 's] Escape from New York (1981). Later, you know, I moved to New York to go to school, got kicked out, and worked as a bike messenger and on Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), and then started a band. Making movies seemed like, "How do you do that? I don't even have money to eat. I'm not gonna make movies." It's great now for kids, make some goofy movie, stick it on YouTube, and you're a hero. Back then, it was like: "Man, I can't wait till I can save enough money to develop the film."

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

[on rushing Halloween II (2009) into production] That's the problem making a movie called Halloween: If you come out Nov. 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I'd be fine.

I met John Carpenter when he was making Escape from L.A. (1996). I see him every once in a while.

[on being asked if Halloween II (2009) is a remake of Halloween II (1981)] The answer is no. This movie has nothing to do with the movie that came out back in 1981. The only thing slightly the same is my film has a brief hospital scene at the top of the film and even that is 100% different. These are all new characters and all new situations. This is not a remake of a sequel, this is the continuing story of the Halloween (2007) I started. So hopefully that clears up that confusion.

[on returning to the Halloween franchise to direct Halloween II (2009)] When I finished Halloween (2007) I was so fucking burnt out that the thought of doing another seemed totally insane to me at the time. I was done. But after a year and a half break I started to think that maybe another one wasn't such a bad idea. I love the characters and felt that I had only just scratched the surface of what could be done with them. The basic story was out of the way and now the series could go anywhere. Seeing the aftermath of Michael's rampage through the eyes of Laurie and Loomis was very exciting to me. So I came back and now we have a movie. Never say never.

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever. That's the way the chips may fall. I just get disgusted watching people crying that it should have been them, that they're a star, that they're special. You know what? Fuck you!

It would be so cool to do something like, I don't know, "The Return of Frankenstein" but you do it so that the monster looks like it did in all the original Universal films. That would be so cool to go back and make a totally classic horror movie. Don't jazz it all up like Van Helsing (2004), but make something really classic. I think people would go for it.

[on the Laurie Strode character in Halloween II (2009)] It doesn't sound like a slasher movie, it sounds like a pretty interesting human drama to have this character wake up, most of the people around her are dead, her whole life is destroyed, and she just has to start dealing with it.

[on remakes] You just can't win. If it's too similar to the original, everybody wonders what the point was, but if it's too different, everybody complains that it's... too different! I found especially with Halloween II (2009) that everyone talked about what it wasn't and not what it was: 'you can't do that with Michael Myers; you can't do that with Loomis...' It's like people have a set of rules in their minds about how these things should function, and you can't work like that.

[on his favorite The Twilight Zone (1959) episode] I'm always drawn to the episodes which take place in one location and are claustrophobic. The Twilight Zone: Five Characters in Search of an Exit (1961) almost looks like a [ Federico Fellini ] movie. As you watch it, it's like: How are they going to resolve this in half an hour? I find it amazing that they get you so involved like in a feature film. I like that for 29 minutes and 59 seconds of the episode, the audience has no idea what's going on. The vibe of it is so unlike the way TV is now.

[on why "The Crow 2037: A New Age of Gods and Monsters" was canceled] They [the studio] couldn't make up their minds about anything. There was a character in the movie who I said I would ideally like to be played by Bob Hoskins . They said OK, then came back and said, "How about Natasha Henstridge "? I left before they suggested I cast a horse in the role.

[2002, on remakes] I feel it's the worst thing any filmmaker can do. I actually got a call from my agent and they asked me if I wanted to be involved in a remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). I said, "No fucking way!" Those movies are perfect. You're only going to make yourself look like an asshole by remaking them. Go remake something that's a piece of shit and make it good.

[when interviewed by MTV on his remake of Halloween (1978)] Well I didn't want it to be, "You know, [Michael Myers] just happened to rob a hardware store and steal that mask". What if they didn't have that mask? What would he steal, a Jimmy Carter mask? Or an Elmo mask, if that was the only one available at the hardware store? And when did he rob the hardware store? In broad daylight? And the alarm is still ringing? I mean, where is everybody? Those little things bothered me with [the original movie]. Thank God Loomis stopped to make that call exactly at that phone booth where he dropped the car off and found the Rabbit in Red matchbook. Those kind of coincidences al
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