What is your favorite Rob Zombie movie?
 

I liked HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES. Although I would have to say that his remake of HALLOWEEN is my favorite so far. I do like all of Zombies movies.

House of 1000 Corpses by leaps and bounds.

^Agreed. I can't really say I like anything else he's done, except maybe Sheri Moon.

i loved The Devil's Rejects, but am a fan off all of his stuff, no matter what the haters say... Late.
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I just read the "Seventh Seal" in your sig as "Steven Segal". Was brutally happy for one precious second.

1) The Devil's Rejects
2) House of 1000 Corpses

Big gap

3) Halloween (2007)
4) The Haunted World of El Superbeasto and Halloween II

Aside from the fact that I've yet to see El Superbeasto, I'd agree with this ranking wholeheartedly.

I can honestly say that I'm not Rob Zombies biggest fan, but he does add some spice to his movies like Devil's Reject or House of 1000's Corpses which wasn't too bad.

I didn't mind House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, but I didn't think they were all that special.

Definitely worth watching though.

definently The Devil's Rejects

Agreed... Did not care for Halloween; I didn't think that it was a necessary remake... As for Halloween 2, I thought it was absolutely awful. Just self-indulgent crap... El Superbeasto was just vulgar... Which I realize was the point, but there was no intellect behind it...

I need to give The Devil's Reject another try. I have a hard time with exploitation flicks - I think I'll enjoy it more now that I know what to expect.

I actually thought that House of 1000 Corpses was absolutely brilliant.

Thats a hard one....I LOVE everything Rob Zombie does...but I would say The Devils Rejects

None of them

The devils rejects is the only one that's worth your time IMO

I love all his flicks but The Devil's Rejects is my favorite closely followed by House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween II.

I was a bit disappointed with El Superbeasto.

Fuck the haters Zombie is one of the best modern horror directors IMO.

I guess I'm the only one who prefers his first Halloween. I agree it wasn't necessary, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it.

I really need to revisit House though because I haven't seen it since it first came out.

I think Halloween was fucking horrid and a complete waste of time. Not only was it an unnecessary remake, but it even felt badly made. As if Rob Zombie was expecting people to dis it and didn't even try to make it halfway decent.

The Halloween remake was a lot better than the majority of the recent remakes (& the majority of the sequels). I really don't get the hate for it.... especially since the dumbed down Dawn of the Dead remake gets so much praise.

The Ralph Bakshi stuff it was knocking off definitely had a lot more underlying themes to it. My major gripe was that it just wasn't very interesting compared to a lot of the animated stuff out there. I was honestly hoping for something like his animated segment in Beavis & Butthead Do America.

House of 1,000 Corpses closely followed by The Devil's Rejects.

I'm a big Rob Zombie fan, both musically and in terms of his films but for me both Halloween films have been a huge disappointment. They are worse than the original films and come across as pretty generic slasher films. They don't even seem to have that sadistic Rob Zombie humour I've became so fond of. I hope he stops remaking Halloween at 2 because he adds nothing to the series.

To be fair what did any of the sequels offer that was new? Aside from Halloween III which was going to take the series on a different trip completely.

House of 1000 corpses.

Nice to see someone else liked Halloween II! I thought it was fuckin' killer.

Here my rankings of his movies.


1.The Devils Rejects(love this movie)
2.Halloween(He did a fantastic job on this)
3.House of a 1000 Corpses(It was good but I thought the ending was stupid)
4.Halloween II(This was a huge let down)

Havent seen Superbeasto.

Thanks for all the replys.

Its funny how bi-polar the responses are when 'horror fans' talk about Rob Zombie or Eli Roth...(its actually a little restraint here)...

Why do you reckon that is? I always feel the ppl who seem to hate either director actually delike tehir fans alot more. Remaking a classic with Halloween of course hadn't done Zombie's cause much good but I feel ppl still had this attitude when he had only 2 films under his belt..

They all fit into the "cool to hate" category just like complaining about remakes. People just like to bring it up to get some cred when talking to horror fans.

They were both hyped as the saviours of modern horror a few years back too which fucked a lot of people off when they were disappointed in the films.

Zombie copped a lot of shit for doing the crossover from musician to director. People just seemed to think he had no business doing that.

I've noticed a lot of similar backlash in regards to Tarantino aswell.

But yeh there's no real middle ground is there?

House is my fav hands down. I remember right after Freddy Vs Jason there was this rumor about a movie being made where the Firefly family moves into a house next door to the Hewitt family. i thought this idea was fucking awesome but i also knew it would never happen

The BBQs would've been wild.

I don't think everybody gets Zombie's movies. They're smart and almost annoyingly postmodern. The problem with Halloween actually is that he couldn't balance the postmodern elements with the splatpunk ones and the source material. I didn't like Devil's Rejects as much as House because it's too damn cerebral and not nearly as intuitive.

Maybe that's what bothered me about it...

First, that kind of animated aesthetic doesn't really appeal to me, but I can definitely see the point and the influence of something like Fritz the Cat. While it might not be something that I choose to see again, I can definitely see the underlying themes (that one in particular I thought was a pretty horrifying depiction of society; I was more disturbed by the violence than by the porn in it, which I thought made it a very smart film)... With El Superbeasto it's definitely out of context; I look at something like that and think, what's the point? I mean, I can understand wanting to make an homage to a genre that you appreciate, but I don't think that El Superbeasto was anything other than vulgar, repulsive, and pointless... And I don't even have particularly delicate sensibilities.


I think you have a point... Honestly, I thought that House of 1000 Corpses was a perfect balance between postmodern horror and splatter. I thought that it was great splatterpunk with a fantastic crescendo and climax of gore. I thought it was absolute brilliant film making.

With the Halloween movies, I can see what he's trying to do, but ultimately I don't think that they work. Halloween wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't a remake. For me, personally, I adore the original movie and I don't think that it was necessary to give Michael Myers a motive or peer into his psyche. I like him as just a pure monster... If Zombie was creating a New Monster; a New Serial Killer, I think that the first movie would have been pretty good. It was a decent slasher, and for those who enjoy looking into the background and psyche of the killer, it's right up your alley.

As for the second film, it's not so much that I don't "get" what he was doing; I just didn't like it. I thought that the visions and symbolism were a bit silly, to tell you the truth. Even taking that one autonomous from its original, I wouldn't have enjoyed it... Which is odd; I thought that Zombie excelled with House of 1000 Corpses but failed with Halloween II. It's also a shame because I thought that the open 10 minutes or so of Halloween II in the hospital were bloody brilliant horror... I really wish that the movie had been straight up slasher just like that... But it's clearly not what he wanted to accomplish.

Tough choice, I'm going to have to say the Unrated Remake of Halloween. I wasn't a fan of the second one, I thought the whole story line got effed up. The reason I picked this film is the way Zombie portrayed Michael, Had a great huge guy play him, that to me is what made this film is how big he was, just plain old creepy. Second choice would have to be The Devils Rejects, I love the character Otis.

His movies keep getting progressively worse IMO. Halloween 2 was garbage.

The Devil's Reject is one my choice.Its more coherent than House Of A 1,000 Corpses,more savage than Halloween the remake,more original than Halloween Part 2.I felt the acting was superb here,intense and disturbing performances by Sid Haig and Bill Moseley,and the sizzling eye candy being Sherri Moon Zombie.Zombie's direction was first rate here,the writing was decent,and the very much liked the ending.:):cool:

House of 1000 Corpses, classic!

hhmmm hard 1, like most people its halloween or devils rejects, ill say devils rejects :),anyone seen el superbeasto?

I generally hate remakes with a passion but his remake of Halloween was really great! Overall though I would say House of 1000 Corpses is his best movie to date.