Well below is the Interview with the best damn metalist alive, next to Manson. I found this on the another Site so i do not own the Rights from it. Thx,And,All Hail the Zombie.


RETURN OF
THE ZOMBIE

Having spent three years in the cinematic wilderness, 'House Of 1000 Corpses' has finally been unleashed on the general public. Best of all, writer/director ROB ZOMBIE is already working on the sequel. Slasherama sat down with this ghoulish individual...




Hello Sir! When 'House Of 1000 Corpses' finally emerged, the mainstream press slated it. How did you feel about that?
Rob Zombie: "I didn't care. I sort of ignored it, because I knew from the get-go that this was not something Roger Ebert's gonna like. It's the same thing as records. Every record I've ever made has done well, yet if I read a review in a mainstream thing, they just tear it apart."

Much criticism hinged around the suggestion that all the cutaways and stylistic 'fancy stuff' made it seem like one big music video.
"I don't see it that way, but I'm probably the worst judge because I've seen it, like, 90 million times. This has been a really weird film to talk about, because what one person hates is exactly what another person likes. Now that the film's out and I've had everybody's feedback, I'm more confused about it than ever. Someone will say, 'I love Sid Haig. Captain Spaulding's a great character' and the next one will go, 'Why did you use all these people that can't act, like Sid Haig?'. Someone loves the long pause before Otis shoots the cop, whereas someone else thinks it's the most pointless thing they've seen in their life. What I do know, is that's good. All these films like 'The Last House On The Left' came out, they got the same treatment. No critics recommended that we went to see 'Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS' and you don't really want these people on board. The same with music: if mainstream press like your record, you're probably in trouble."

You mentioned that long pause, which is one of the movie's highlights.
"It's really uncomfortable to sit in a room with a couple of hundred people, in dead silence. That's my favourite moment: watching people react is just so fun."

While the film is full of your own touches, you must see that moment as the one which is 100 per cent yours. Where did it come from?
"It was one of the things in the movie which I knew, far in advance. I had the song (Slim Whitman's 'I Remember You'), the slow motion, everything. It was funny too, because that was the scene that Universal hated. They hated it being in slow motion, they hated the long pause. They said I had to cut it down, because it didn't work. And they hated the whole beginning with Captain Spaulding, too. They wanted it to start with the kids. They were all about the kids! Of course, no-one gives a fucking shit about the kids. We know they're all gonna die (laughs)."

Is that the way you see your good guys? While Bill and Jerry were sympathetic characters, I couldn't tell Denise and Mary apart. Still can't.
"A lot of people have had that problem. I guess I should've made one of them a red-head!"

When you started writing the script, did you realise how hard it is to keep a flow of consistent scares going? Hence 'cheap scare' scenes in the movie where a dog makes you jump, or someone taps somebody on the shoulder?
"It is hard. This isn't the slow-build, agonising-90-minute-wait type of movie. In the first 25 seconds of the film, you've got a filthy clown shooting somebody in the face. Then you're stuck with keeping that pace up for 90 minutes. It gets harder and harder to scare people, because so many films come out. Everyone's seen all this stuff."

What do you think of the presently available 'House Of 1000 Corpses' DVD, released in the States in August?
"I like it, but there's not much behind-the-scenes stuff. Thing is, we made the movie three years ago when people weren't filming as much stuff for DVDs. Now, you get eight hours of extra footage."

You made up for it, though, by shooting some amusing extra footage for the menu screens. How long did it take you to shoot Sid Haig's stint as Captain Spaulding?
"It took about an hour. He's a pretty good ad-libber. I mean, he had a script, but he also made stuff up."

On your audio commentary, you say that you only filmed the creation of Fishboy after Universal passed on the movie. What would they have thought if you'd had that scene initially?!
"(Laughing) Oh, it would've been really bad, yeah! Universal was a weird situation. They hated all the different film looks - they just wanted it to be one clean film all the way through, which I found really boring."

The Fishboy creation scene is one of the film's most disturbing. It probably seemed quite amusing when you were filming it, though.
"Oh, it was hilarious! Everything seemed amusing, apart from when Otis was raping the cheerleaders. It was a really small room, with me working the camera, him and the girl. Since the set was 360 degrees, there was no element of fakeness. I just felt like I was shooting Bill Moseley raping somebody. That got weird. Even after we yelled cut, Bill had to stand up. It felt like we'd crossed a line."

Also on your commentary, you don't come across as the most caring director when it comes to extras, stunt people, etc. Is that just your trademark dry humour?
"Yeah, I was just kidding. Sometimes I say stuff and think, 'Oh God, everyone's gonna think I'm serious'. Me and most of the cast have become really good friends. Most of them will be back, of course, for the sequel. The thing is, people like Sid Haig and Bill Moseley would go and see this type of film, even if they weren't in it. In a movie like, say, 'Dracula 2000', you can tell that everyone in the movie would rather be doing something else."

Having interviewed you several times over the years, I was amazed to hear you were making a sequel to the movie. You've always said you hated sequels
"Sequels suck, I'll admit it right now, but they can work. I don't think Part Two of something, in itself, sucks. It's just that most of the time people don't make a Part Two - they make Part One again. I have no problem with The Godfather Part Two, because there are those characters and you see more of them. The worst thing I could do, would be, 'Oh, four more unsuspecting people go to the house - look what happens!'. That'd be fuckin' horseshit and that's not what I'm doing. The house isn't even in the movie. There aren't even any good characters - it's all bad people in this one, doing other things. It's a road picture, more like Bonnie & Clyde or something."

A road movie, in the same way that From Dusk 'Til Dawn is a road movie?
"I never really thought of that one, but maybe. That's the best part of that movie, too. I was thinking more of The Wild Bunch - violent '70s westerns. The biggest problem with sequels to horror movies is that once the characters become too familiar, they're no longer scary or creepy. So I'm taking most of the humour out of the film, making it darker and more serious. It almost works in reverse. I don't want Captain Spaulding to turn into a guy with a funny catchphrase every two seconds. I loved The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but the second one got more campy. I still enjoyed it, but not as much. I wanted more of that meanspirited-ness."

What other horror sequels do you like?
"Well, 'Bride Of Frankenstein', even though I like the first one better. The second 'Hellraiser' was okay - it wasn't horrible but not as good as the first one. It kept the spirit. The problem with a lot of movies, like 'Scream', is that there's not a lot of characters returning. You're watching a whole group of new people doing the same thing. We've got a lot of villains who can come back and get more screen time. I think people wanna see more Captain Spaulding. It's not like they wanna more Bill and Jerry! 'Please bring Bill back!'."

It's so obvious that you're rooting for the bad guys in 'House'.
"Yeah, I wanted the audience to cheer 'em. I didn't consciously think of it at the time, because I was trying to make Bill and Jerry likeable. But it's like when you saw 'Beetlejuice' and you could tell all Tim Burton cared about was Beetlejuice (laughs)."

Will you be trying to scare people so much with the sequel? Will there be supernatural elements, for instance?
"No, I think it'll be different. It'll be a more intense I keep calling it a western. It's not an action movie, but very violent."

Mainly gunplay involved?
"Yeah, but a lot of beatings (laughs). I'm thinking about 'Goodfellas'-type violence, which seems so real."

You've spoken about the "super-duper deluxe" director's cut of 'House'. When are we going to see that, and what extra stuff will be in it?
"I don't when we'll see it, because I still have to make it, and the sequel's kinda gotten in the way. There are whole characters cut out of the movie - the whole Skunk Ape thing got cut down to nothing. There was also stuff where we would see the kids at certain points on their road-trip. There's also a lot of other stuff in the Fishboy creation scene. After they cut off his hand they do other stuff to him, too. So it's just a long torture scene. Then there's stabbings, skinnings and other stuff. There were different reasons why things were cut out of the movie. The main one was obviously the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the other is that it seemed too long."

A trivia question: in the 'I Remember You' sequence, why does Mr Willis run away?
"He's running to the police car to get to the radio!"

Ahhhhhh. Did casting your wife Sheri in the movie seem potentially risky? If she gave a bad performance, would you have been able to tell her?
"Oh yeah. But a lot of people were unexperienced - Chris Hardwick (Jerry) had never done acting - he was a gameshow host, or something. But I felt he could do it and the same thing with Sheri. You just have to take that risk and have faith in people. It could have disastrous, but it paid off. I think there was a sigh of relief from everybody, after her first scene."

She turned out very well. That laugh is unforgettabl
"I don't know where the hell that came from - it surprised me too! It just came out one day and I was like, 'Holy shit!'."

What do you think about her appearing in the remake of 'The Toolbox Murders'?
"That looks like it's gonna be pretty cool. I only went down to the set a couple of times. Her character's a victim and I only saw a little. What I saw looked really cool - the way they were shooting it made it almost look like some weird Italian movie."

How about the remake of 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'?
"On one hand, it's pointless and why are they doing it? But then I saw the trailer and it looked a lot cooler than I ever would've imagined. I don't want it to be bad - I don't want anything to be bad. If you cry about stuff like this remake too much, you end up sounding like an old fart. They're doing it because there's no money left in the old one! And if it wasn't for remakes of classic films, Hammer would never have existed. On the flipside, the remake of 'Psycho' was ridiculous, even though I really like Vince Vaughn."

Indeed. As we wind things up, when will you start shooting this sequel?
"The goal and the plan is to start in April 2004. Right now, I'm doing the casting, which is one of the most fun parts about making a movie."

After the three-year delay on the first movie's release, it'll feel strange for you to shoot a film and put it out relatively quickly
"I know, it'll be so nice. First time around, too, I had a very low-budget crew, which sets you up for certain problems"

Well, you managed to make one of Slasherama's favourite films of the year, and for that we salute you. So is everyone coming back for Part Two?
""Yeah, everyone's up for it. They won't stop calling me!"






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