Austin's biggest media festival, SXSW, is coming up in about five weeks, and the film portion of the fest has unveiled a list of films that will play in the midnight and shorts categories. Running March 8-16, the film portion of SXSW has been growing into one of the country's premiere film festivals. The biggest…
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Rob Zombie gets away from the Halloween franchise and back into his own material with The Lords of Salem, which sees the violent past of Salem, MA resurrected and brought violently into the present. It feels like a very long time ago that Zombie shot the film, and it has been quiet since the first…
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Briefly: I don't know that there was ever much doubt about how things would go, but Rob Zombie's new film, The Lords of Salem, has scored an R rating, according to the director. The classification is due to "Disturbing violent and sexual content, graphic nudity, language, and some drug use." Given the level of intensity…
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Rob Zombie is moving forward on The Lords of Salem, his upcoming horror film that involves witchcraft and terror in Salem, MA. He's announced the first bit of casting: Meg Foster will play "Margaret Morgan, the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem." Fans of John Carpenter's They Live will recognize Foster immediately;…
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Here's the first look at any imagery from Rob Zombie's new film The Lords of Salem. But what is it, exactly? Your guess is as good as mine. To start with, is seems to be a mask of some sort, and probably one designed to punish people, extract information from them or both. But how…
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Rob Zombie's new film The Lords of Salem, was recently given an official announcement, and shooting should get underway on the picture in mid-April, after the director has a chance to finish up his latest concert tour and really dig into pre-production duties. After one recent concert appearance he was thrown a few questions about…
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In the wake of Halloween II, it seemed as if Rob Zombie might finally direct his film Tyrannosaurus Rex, or possibly tackle a remake of The Blob. (The latter seeming like a doomed prospect, especially since the 1988 Chuck Russell remake of The Blob is still pretty damn good.) But then it was announced that…
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Not long ago, Rob Zombie said that he'd soon be announcing his next directorial project. And now the info is out. It isn't the remake of The Blob, nor Tyrannosaurus Rex. No, it's a film called The Lords of Salem, about what unfolds when an group of witches plague modern-day Salem. Deadline says that Zombie…
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