On the one hand, being a director requires close observation and paying attention to the most minute details of every second of every shot in a film.
On the other hand, director Rob Zombie takes this importance to a level that may disturb those who are fascinated with his capability of creating a film as gory and gut-wrentching as “Halloween,” including the fact that he observes corpses.
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“NORTH HOLLYWOOD — Rob Zombie, director of the “Halloween” film that came to theaters Friday, may not think his horror movies influence behavior in younger viewers. But there is no denying he was heavily influenced by images he says he has seen in his 42 years.
There was the time he was playing in his backyard on a sunny day when he heard a man’s screams. Zombie recalls, “There was this chubby naked guy who had just been stabbed running down the street covered in blood — the most surreal sight.”
Then as a young adult in New York City, he witnessed a fatal bludgeoning and, working as a bicycle delivery man, passed a frozen corpse. “I think it was a homeless guy who froze to death,” he says. “But what was even more disturbing was the time I walked out of my apartment in Brooklyn and came across a dead Saint Bernard on the sidewalk.”
The former frontman for the metal band White Zombie worked through much of that psychological trauma as the director of 2003’s “House of 1000 Corpses” and 2005’s “The Devil’s Rejects.” His” Halloween,” a remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 original, is more mainstream, but it still embraces Zombie’s flair for gore.”
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