 |
| Photo by Daniel McFadden, property of Anchor Bay Films. |
Rob Zombie remembers the first time he saw Jaws. It was in 1975. He was a child at the time, probably in fourth grade by his recollections. "There wasn't anything scary happening," he remembers. Yet Jaws became a legend of the horror genre it was, in a large part, thanks to the music. "John Williams was really the master of making...those notes, become a tangible thing," Zombie says. "You hear the music and there's a shark even though there is visually no shark in the frame."
Decades later, Jaws still stands out to Zombie as one of the best examples of film and music working together perfectly. "For 20 years afterwards, you couldn't get into a pool without someone singing the theme," he adds.
Few people understand the power that music can have over people. Rob Zombie does. The director The Lords of Salem, due out in theaters on April 19, first made a name for himself as a musician. Actually, rock star is a more accurate description. In the early 1990s, he led the band White Zombie from underground act to rock radio mainstays. He eventually went solo and, ultimately, carved out a career as a director while continuing to release albums.
He made his directorial debut back in 2003 with House of 1000 Corpses and went on to helm the 21st century reboot of Halloween. Zombie has been straddling the worlds of film and music for a long time. In fact, he's releasing his latest solo album, Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, on April 23, just days after the film release and is headlining the Mayhem Festival tour this summer.
More »