Astro Creep extraordinaire Rob Zombie talks horror movies and timeless songs
The Twins of Evil Tour comes to Aaron's Amphitheater on Thurs., Oct. 25
- Rick Fagen
- Rob Zombie
The season of the witch is upon us, and it’s only appropriate that Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson bring their Twins of Evil Tour to Aaron’s Amphitheatre this Thursday, October 25. A three-time Grammy nominee for Best Metal Performance, filmmaker, and astro creep extraordinaire, Zombie is the living embodiment of Halloween. Before making his way to the haunted South, we had a chance to chop it up about his new film, Lords of Salem, his favorite George Romero flicks, and what makes a timeless song so timeless.
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Here are just a few excerpts from our conversation.
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$31-$181. 7 p.m. Aaron’s Amphitheatre, 2002 Lakewood Way.
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On what makes White Zombie’s “Thunderkiss ’65” such a timeless song ...
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That record (La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1) came out in 1992 and we wrote that song way before the album ever came out, so that song is 20-some years old. For me, songs that I’ve always found to be timeless are the ones that were already out of their time to begin with. You can hear a song that someone’s doing now and say “Oh, of course that’s what you’re doing, because that’s what everyone is doing now, but it’s gonna sound dated next year.” But when people react to a song at the time with a “What’s that all about?” That’s usually when a song is going to sound timeless. That’s my theory, anyway.
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On remaking a classic horror film ...
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With Halloween, there was the original Halloween, which was the movie that I loved, and then how many sequels were there? Six? Seven? Each one of them was more pathetic than the last. So I thought “Well, they really drove that movie into the ground for 30 years.” They were just cranking out these sequels and it didn’t look like anyone who was involved with them really even cared about them. So I thought, “Let’s dust it off, give it some respect, and prop it back up.” I really wanted to find the exact balance of what would work. When they came to me with the movie, they didn’t care if Michael Myers was in it, or if Dr. Loomis was in it, or any of the original stuff. They didn’t care, but I wanted to keep the classic elements.