IMDb plot summary: Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
Directed by Rob Zombie. Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Judy Geeson.
Rob Zombie's aesthetic is... not mine. There are a lot of pieces of this that have some great ideas, and a few of the scenes involving the record itself are genuinely creepy, but for the most part it's not scary so much as just... grimy, and occasionally silly. There's a gleeful earnestness with which Zombie tosses subverted Christian symbols into the movie, but they seldom make any *sense*, they just feel like they were put there by someone convinced that was enough to be edgy and creepy. But... no, just showing me an image of a nun or a weird shape around a cross isn't a big deal. Maybe for others it is, but it feels like so many of these images were thrown together haphazardly, like Zombie made a mood board on Pinterest and then just decided to film it all, regardless of whether it connects narratively. It drowns out an otherwise unsettling story by feeling, honestly, just kind of silly.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Lords of Salem < The Beach
The Lords of Salem > Big Business
The Lords of Salem < The Woman in Black
The Lords of Salem > Rust and Bone
The Lords of Salem > Bandidas
The Lords of Salem > Crash
The Lords of Salem < Stephen King's The Stand
The Lords of Salem < Mr. Holland's Opus
The Lords of Salem > The Dirty Dozen
The Lords of Salem < Hitch
The Lords of Salem > A Dangerous Method
Final spot: #2124 out of 3329, or 36%.
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