Comments on: TIFF Review: Unnerving ‘Lords of Salem’ Is Rob Zombie’s Best Film Yet

By: Pearl Polanski

Pearl Polanski — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

The beginning minutes were a direct ripoff of the silent Swedish movie Haxan (1922) and from there it went downhill fast. I'm usually very scared of horror flicks but this movie was laughable. Extremely laughable! The only frightening thing in this movie was the acting, especially by Rob's non-talented wife Sheri Moon Zombie. I've seen better acting at high school plays. She's like John Lennon's Yoko Ono. She really sucks. If Rob Zombie didn't make movies you were never see her on screen.

I was expecting much much more. Salem, Ma. is one of my favorite places to visit in the fall and I eagerly anticipated this movie's completion. Salem has quite the macabre ambiance and unfortunately The Lords of Salem was a shameful representation of that. There was such potential and it was all pitifully wasted. I have still photos I took in Salem that are way more frightful than The Lords of Salem. It's no wonder that the Massachusetts Film Commission has chosen not to add it to their list of movies filmed in the state.

By: Gaby

Gaby — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

This movie was horrible , it seemed very interesting at first but then somehow I seemed to loose interest very fast and the movie ended up being very boring and extra long i ended up turning it off . I was very disappointed in rob zombie. two thumbs waaay down for this movie.

By: Asashii

Asashii — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

what a horrible acted, laughable, terrible dialog, terrible script- movie, and this is coming from a rob zombie fan, and the plot was so cliched and has been done a thousand times and a thousand times better!!!!

By: Cam

Cam — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

The movie started off alright and could of gone somewhere but somehow the last 15 minutes had had very little point and was more like one of his music videos than a theatrical release the movie didn't follow through with any of it's cool ideas, it's almost like he was trying to make a good modern horror thriller and got bored and started making some sort of 70's Satanic Exploitation flick, i've liked all of rob zombies films to date but this film sucked balls

By: Kelt

Kelt — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

Seven words in and this 'review' lost any kind of legitimacy. If your opinion of Rob Zombie's music is that it's 'Goth' then chances are you don't even know what the hell his movies are about either. "It's another RobZomRomCom…"

By: Huffy

Huffy — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

" goth rocker-turned-filmmaker"

Eh…I don't want to nitpick but at least get what genre of music he did right. Zombie isn't even close to being goth.

By: RNL

RNL — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

The Halloween 2 director's cut is pretty brilliant.

By: Rastapopoulos

Rastapopoulos — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

The Devil's rejects is a masterpiece.

By: Myles

Myles — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

I thought the film was great for the first 2/3, but then it took a turn for the worse, and sadly is only "unsettling" for me. Though I have never discussed a movie as much on the drive home. Worst part of the movie were the moronic questions afterwards and Zombie's nonchalance towards the rare good question.

By: justin

justin — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

Hasn't made a good movie yet? Please see THE DEVIL'S REJECTS and get back to me.

By: rotch

rotch — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

I believe Devil's Rejects is a great film and can't wait for this one.

By: Terry Grant

Terry Grant — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

I have to agree with the other comments here, in that you kind of make it seem as though he's actually made a decent film before.
– "the free-associative quality to his allusiveness in the film is sometimes distractingly conspicuous"
J*sus H, we're talking about the guy that made House Of 1000 Corpses.

By: yer

yer — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

"Rob Zombie's best film" isn't saying much..

By: Bobmorton

Bobmorton — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

Come on! This movie fucking sucked.

By: BEF

BEF — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:34:40 +0000

Yes! I hope this gets a better distributor than Anchor Bay. I worked on a film they picked up on Sundance and it's straight to VOD and DVD. I don't think I've ever seen the Anchor Bay logo in theaters, but always on spines.