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Rob Zombie

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Dreadlocks.

Gruff vocals.

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.

Trivialidades

Brother Michael David Cummings is "Spider", lead singer of the metal band Powerman 5000.

He had originally written the script 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 movie. The script he had written is now the script for Legend of the 13 Graves.

Owns the "Zombie A Go Go" record label.

Directs all his own music videos.

Once managed his brother's band, "Powerman 5000".

Has many tattoos and designed most of them.

His wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, is on cover of the "American Made Music to Strip By" CD.

Designed a maze for Universal Studio's "Halloween Horror Nights" in 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 dropped his film debut House of 1000 Corpses (2003), fearing it would get a NC-17 rating.

Loves horror movies.

Zombie's movie, House of 1000 Corpses (2003), has been picked up by Lion's Gate Films. [July 2002]

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

He has a pair of boots that he's been wearing for over 20 years.

He is a big fan of horror/zombie movies.

Is friends with metal legend, Ozzy Osbourne.

Has a fascination with Charles Manson.

Collector of classic movie posters including horror films and the classic Marx Brothers films, after whom he named several of the characters in House of 1000 Corpses (2003) (Otis Driftwood, 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 films. The other "Splat Pack" members are Alexandre Aja, Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall, Greg Mclean, Eli Roth, James Wan & Leigh Whannell.

Is an avid fan of "The Munsters" (1964).

Moved to New York at the age of 18.

Although his films tend to be very violent, he is a bigger fan of the horror films of the 30s and 40s than the later, more violent ones.

Long-time vegetarian.

Has a 12-foot stuffed bear in his living room. He also has a sarcophagus, an enormous Boris Karloff poster, a green, scaly Creature from the Black Lagoon statue, and real baby bats which have mounted and framed.

His parents were carnival workers.

In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $20 million.

Avoids doing casting himself or even giving himself cameos in any of his films. He has said that, as a director, he doesn't feel comfortable in front of the camera and generally feels that directors should focus on directing rather than being in the film.

Personal Quotes

[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.'"

[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.'"

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, because one of the movies I made as a kid in high school was a sequel to [Carpenter's] Escape from New York. 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, 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.

Where Are They Now

(November 2001) Released his third CD, titled "The Sinister Urge".

(October 2003) Released a best of record titled: "Past, Present & Future" Also this year House of 1000 Corpses (2003) soundtrack came out both from Geffen records.

(March 2006) Released new CD entitled Educated Horses. Currently touring North America in support of that CD.

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