robert zombie's got me pining for richard linklater tbh

it upsets me to think about this grown man sitting down in front of his computer to write a screnepláy and typing the words "stick your fingers in your dripping twat or gtfo" and thinking to himself 'yes this is good these are good words to put in my Cool movie that's very Cool please i am Cool like me I'M COOL.' i've tried so hard to like rob zombie too and i dont even know why!! is it because he really likes horreur films? i guess that's it?? i don't know. i really don't! every single time i watch a rob zombie movie i want to like it so bad,…

83/100

Zombie's angriest - and best - endeavor yet, as he capitalizes and mushes his own brand of depraved, slimy violence into something interior in motive. Nothing is plainly for viscera, and spectacle is a haunted daydream. Each ax swing and chainsaw rip is the endpoint seen through terror, death, and loss. Zombie no longer cares about pleasure or titillation (that doesn't mean he won't give it to you, of course), showcasing brutalized, exploitative guts *after* the final breath whispers out of someone's throat instead. Our heroes may be loud and foul-mouthed, but they're genuine people, and their lives matter. Seeing blood splatter against the industrial pipes - a detail which seems endless in the Hellish landscape where the characters…

There was an interregnum, a period between what had been and what wasn't quite yet, when collapsed revolution collapsed into hedonistic gratification and withdrawal and an inner-focused mysticism or the hardened, militarized fragments of effort at collective action and things felt increasingly adrift like there wasn't a driver or a captain or a steward. This was an incorrect assumption and we don't need those things anyway. It was still the early days of the Counterrevolution, which lasted a long, long time and didn't so much collapse on its own as much as it achieved its ends which, as ends generally are, are insupportable because there is nothing after them. But that is a different story. So what happened back then,…

So for the last movie of Halloween 2018 I needed a movie that would tell me the truth and 31 is that movie. 31 is no fun, it isn't funny, lacks kill thrill and possesses almost no Halloween Spirit. I don't have any idea at all why I would want to watch a movie about 18th Century Fetishist Losers kidnapping people and warehousing them in an aesthetically barren Murder Land so that a Bunch of Subcontracted Psycho Clowns can Murder Them for the Pleasure and Delight of Sun King Cosplay. Whyever I would want to watch such a movie right now when it feels most urgent, a pressing and compulsive need, it is important to note that 31 will not…

Action!: Grinding With Rob Zombie

After failing to direct his own version of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "SAW", Zombie merged the two films into a movie that served as an opportunity to showcase his Grindhouse skills.

The result is a film that is disgusting in more ways than one, featuring despicable and loathsome characters that are impossible to like, both on the bad guys' and good guys' sides. The actors do not seek sympathy from anyone, but rather jump right in and embrace the filth. Of all of them, Richard Brake is the best of the lot as this ruthless and vicious hitman whose face is mostly made up of paint and blood. He exhibits the menacing side of his…

Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt - August 2018

4. a rob zombie film

Not gonna lie, the first time I watched this I gave it 2 stars because I thought it had a couple of good parts but overall I was just meh about it, but this time I actually quite enjoyed it so that’s some real life character development for you huh.

Maybe it’s because I’ve watched a couple of other RZ films lately and I’m starting to really dig his 70’s inspired sleaze aesthetic of maybe it’s because this is just a straight up, unashamed assault on the senses and I appreciate that straightforwardness, or maybe it’s because I’m just pretty damn drunk honestly who can say, but I…