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Apr 17, 2013 · "The Lords of Salem" is a genuinely nasty and disturbing piece of work, but its cumulative nerve-shredding effect is not just the product of effective direction. Sheri Moon Zombie delivers her best serious dramatic performance yet.
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Apr 19, 2013 · Watch The Lords of Salem with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, or buy on Fandango at Home.
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The Lords of Salem Reviews. Zombie finally abandons his "hellbilly" aesthetic for something more hypnotic and meditative, resulting in a hallucinatory brain-melter that marks the peak of...
Apr 29, 2013 · Considering the infamous hamlet?s haunted, centuries-old history with witchcraft, it?s easy to imagine that Salem, in some small way, helped to mold the director into the mad maestro of mayhem ...
- Zombie no match for Salem witches
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By Chris Tilly
Posted: Mar 8, 2013 4:09 pm
Rob Zombie is not a filmmaker known for his subtlety. The four live-action features he has made thus far – House of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and two Halloween flicks – have been filled with death and destruction. Murder and mayhem. And graphic violence designed to both shock and repulse.
Which makes the first hour of his latest film so surprising, as although The Lords of Salem is another horror effort, it’s much more of an understated slow-burn. Zombie endeavours to build suspense and tension before finally unleashing a truly bizarre hell on his characters, and while it’s a far from successful exercise in terror, you’ve got to respect the man for making a film this downright strange.The movie kicks off in Salem Massachusetts, 1696, with a group of witches dancing and cackling around a fire before first desecrating their bodies and then denying Jesus Christ, like some period Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Cut to Salem’s present day and we’re introduced to Heidi Hawthorne, a rock chick and DJ who – together with two guys called Herman – forms the ‘Big H Radio Team.’
In somewhat slow and painstaking fashion we are then exposed to the monotony of Heidi’s daily routine – from walking her dog to attending AA meetings – proceedings only enlivened by her constant state of semi-undress. But everything changes when Heidi receives a mysterious wooden box containing a record simply labelled ‘a gift from the gods.’
A bizarre and intermittently entertaining mess of a movie that promises more than it delivers.
- Chris Tilly
- 5 min
Apr 18, 2013 · The Lords of Salem: Directed by Rob Zombie. With Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Judy Geeson. Radio DJ Heidi 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.
Apr 19, 2013 · Heidi, a radio station DJ living in Salem, Massachusetts receives a mysterious record "from the Lords.” Upon playing the record, bizarre sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of the town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords of Salem returning for revenge?
