One aspect of Rob Zombie we can all agree on is that his music and films aren't for everyone. The images of killing and ultra-violence shown in his slasher films are graphic, grotesque, sordid, and often misogynistic. Zombie portrays the bogeyman/woman, the evil monster, and the deranged clownâarchetypal characters inducing archetypal fear, killing in unimaginably wrong ways. In House of 1000 Corpses, the lead killer cuts off the face of a man, wears it like a mask, and kisses the dead man's tied-up daughter on the mouth, saying, "Who's your daddy?" Zombie fans love it. They like it bloody and wrong. They want violence. But is it ever too wrong? Is there a point where society becomes too numb to violence? Better in a film than in reality, right?
Rob Zombie is a highly intelligent man. He's sold more than 15 million albums of his psycho industrial-grooved metal, and he's grossed more than $150 million as the writer/director of six feature films. Zombie's longtime wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, has been cast as a killer in his movies. Curiously, or not, Zombie is an "ethical vegetarian" and does work for a charity called Puppy Rescue Mission, helping dogs taken in by soldiers on their tours of duty. Not exactly facets of a man who's derailing society.
