GFF 2013 - Rob Zombie's The Lords Of Salem Trailer 2

We're impressed by the visual style of Rob Zombie's The Lords Of Salem first trailer which played to the sounds of Mozart's Requiem playing like an homage to horror Maestro Mario Bava. Tonight we have an second trailer for The Lords Of Salem which possess the atmosphere, visual qualities of the previous trailer but now going for a more conventional approach.

The Lords of Salem stars Sherri Moon Zombie (wife of director) plays a radio DJ who receives a strange gift in a wooden box, within the box is a record 'gift to the lords' which awakens a 200 year old coven of witches.

This new trailer has given us a better understanding in what the film is all about you can see the plot is delving into old school giallo , near enough arthouse style horror but the question is The Lords of Salem more style over substance? Hopefully not as this looks insane film, he does have an uphill battle with cinephiles convincing his film making skills are as worthy as his musical talents, we're convinced!

No word on a UK Release just yet however on 22nd February The Lords Of Salem will make its UK Premier at Glasgow Film Festival during Film4 Frightfest strand. The Lords of Salem also stars  Bruce Davidson, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, Ken Foree, Patricia Quinn, Dee Wallace, Maria Conchita Alonso, Judy Gleeson, Meg Foster, Griffin Boice.

Synopsis

Hard rock Boston DJ Heidi Hawthorne co-hosts a late-night radio show. One day she receives a promo record from a mysterious band called The Lords whose music is strange and sinister. It transpires the droning tune was composed during the Witch Trials to turn all the local Salem women into satanic acolytes. When she plays it on the air, Heidi spirals into drug addiction and starts having nightmare hallucinations about the demon seed. Cult director Rob Zombie returns with his darkest horror – a journey to the unfathomable depths of terror in the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby and The Devils. 

source: Bleeding Cool

Lords of Salem Trailer

 At last we have the first trailer for Rob Zombie's latest film; The Lords of Salem. Zombie's film film career started back in 2003 with House of a Thousand Corpses two years later saw the release of the sequel:The Devil's Rejects, a significantly more grown-up film that really showed off Zombie's talents behind the camera. He rebooted the Halloween franchise, made a part two that was just as stylish and visceral, visited the world of the animated in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. So far Zombie has garnered a significant amount of praise marking him out as one of the more interesting directors indulging in macabre cinema today, his latest film looks like it could be his most inventive, haunting, beautiful, and art-house flick.

Directed and Written by: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sheri-Moon Zombie, Ken Foree, Bruce Davison, Patricia Quinn, Jeff Daniel Phillips

Synopsis: The town of Salem is visited by a 300 year-old coven of witches, after a local DJ plays a record sent to her mysteriously by unknown persons.

SCOTT CLARK