![]() ![]() “To be able to have my band and tour the world and sell millions of records, then transition from a band to a solo artist into directing and to keep working for over 30 years doing that, that’s kind of insane.” “I’m always so deep in the work that I’m doing that I don’t step back from it and go, ‘Wow, this is pretty crazy.’ Everything that I’ve gotten to do is crazy, but I’ve wanted to do it,” he enthused. However, what people think has never stopped the heavy metal legend from doing what he wants to do. The movie got mixed reviews from critics who have generally never gone easy on Zombie’s work. Salem was probably my weirdest movie yet.” After Halloween, when I had gone through the studio system and I was so tortured by it, Jason came and pitched to me like, ‘We’ll give you 100% of the money you need, we’ll stay 100% creatively out of your way, we won’t say anything, and you can do literally whatever you want.’ That sounded like the greatest thing ever and was the exact opposite experience I just had for three straight years with Halloween. If you’d have said Blumhouse Productions to somebody then they probably wouldn’t have known what you were talking about. “It was early in the days of his company. “I did a movie with Jason a long time ago, The Lords of Salem,” he explained. Throughout his career the horror icon has embraced new ways of doing things, something later emulated, with great success, by the likes of producer Jason Blum. 17 and 18, 2019, thanks to Fathom Events. That shows how messed up everything was and what was going on when we were making those movies.”ĭirector Rob Zombie on the set of his eighth movie, '3 from Hell.' Lionsgate/Saban FilmsĪn unrated version of 3 from Hell will be released in nearly 900 theaters for a three-day run starting Monday, September 16, 2019. That has somehow gotten lost in the vaults. “We made a behind the scenes documentary for the making of Halloween. Why do you show me that like I’ve never seen it before?’” I felt like they weren’t trusting me on the first one because they wanted to make sure it was a hit and now they weren’t trusting me not to f*** up their hit.”ĭetailing why the experience was not one the creator looks back on favorably, he said: “They would show me scenes from Halloween to try and make a point and I’d be like, ‘Yeah, I know. I did do the second one, and I thought, ‘Okay, well the first one was a miserable experience, but it did well, so maybe it’ll be easier the second time?’ It was worse. “Making Halloween with the Weinstein’s was a miserable experience for me, and so I was very reticent to do the second one. They’re not projects that are screaming, ‘This is so commercial.’ When I did Halloween, that was a hit, and then I went back to do Halloween II.” I guess it might be just because of the way I want to make them or the subject matter. You always think that somehow the momentum of the last one would make the next one easier. I’ve been doing them for almost 20 years, and every one of them is a struggle. It seems like it’s never easier,” Zombie mused. ![]()
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