Rob Zombie for The Devil's Rejects DVD

Yep.

It’s going good. It’s about half done.

Hopefully March 7th [2006].

Right now, mostly I’m playing with the guys that I’ve been on tour with this summer, John Five, Blasko playing bass and Tommy Cluefetos playing drums. Josh Freese came in and played drums and Wes Borlin played some guitar, a bunch of different people.

It did awesome.

People don’t ever really know how to look at things. But probably pound for pound for what that movie cost and what it made, it was one of the more successful movies all summer.

It‘s hard because it is such a hard violent movie but funny too. I know so many people that see the commercial and go “oh I can’t see that. It looks so cool but it looks too scary.” Whatever. That seems like a bizarre statement.

Oh yeah. Well not necessarily the point but I always feel if you’re going to make movies of a violent nature, they should have an effect. I’m not a fan of violent movies or action movies where the violence is like fun. I always find that really stupid.

I didn’t really necessarily want people to sympathize with them because there’s really no reason you should. I just wanted to create enough of a conflict that it became interesting where sometimes you might but then you wouldn’t and then you might. I figured if from the beginning of the movie they were clearly the bad guys and Wydell was clearly the good guy, that’s kind of boring. I thought jumping back and forth from hating them to loving them would be a lot more interesting. Those to me are the only two responses you should ever want. Anything in the middle means you didn’t have an effect. I’d rather have people walk out of the theatre going “that was so awesome, that’s my favorite movie” or “I hated that movie more than anything I’ve ever seen”.

It was fun though difficult because the DVD has about four hours of extra stuff.

There’s no real way to double dip on this one. We’re putting out two versions at the same time. There’s the R rated version then there’s the unrated version. Then that’s all there is. There’s nothing left to come back two years from now and go “here’s the super unrated version”. There’s nothing else left so there’s no way to do it.

I don’t mind doing it. They way I do it is kind of different than what other people do. I go in there, I do it once then I just leave and I never even listen to it. So I don’t even really know what I said.

They seem happy with it. There’s never seems to be a problem. I hear that some people do commentary over and over and over. They put in new parts and fix them up and I’m like “uh forget about it”.

Oh yeah it’s great.

She loves it.

Interested in the sense they saw the movie.

Probably. I’m sure they’re horrified.

There weren’t really that many. They were mostly a lot of people fucking up their lines, slipping and falling down. One of the biggest things that kept happening was when were shooting on the ranch there and the horses and cows were very loud. There was one cow in particular that seemed to always moo really loud right in the middle of every speech that William Forsythe was trying to give. It was driving him crazy. That’s on there.

Yeah, he was great and fun to watch. He’s pretty intense.

Brian’s great. I knew Brian before the movie and I always wanted to work with him. I told him as soon as I made another movie I’d write a part for him. I love it. I think with a lot of the actors in this movie; these are the best performances they’ve ever given.

Leslie Easterbrook and Priscilla Barnes and Sid Haig and Bill Moseley and even William Forsythe.

Yeah I think so.

No I’m not tired of them. In fact it’s sad to not revisit them because I do really like them. I just think that they would become kind of a cheap like going back to the well.

I might. I really like the characters. It’s kind of a drag to leave them behind but just as with anything that was great like Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser or Halloween or anything, it always get worse as you keep going back. I thought The Devil’s Rejects was better than House of a 1000 Corpses so you’ve got to know when to get out of there before you ruin it.

I’m actually doing a comic with David Hartman who did art for The Devil’s Rejects comic we did. We’re also doing Living Dead Girl comic.

I’m not really sure yet, we just started working on it. It’ll be in the style of a Hammer movie.

Oh yeah I’ve talked to them a million times. They asked me to do it but I just haven’t. When they were shooting the first season I was shooting The Devil’s Rejects or editing or was too busy and now they’re starting to prep for the second season. Then Ozzfest got in the way because that was the last chance I had to do an episode this year. The timing has just been really bad for me.

I don’t know what the story would be yet. Since I knew I wouldn’t have time to do it I never really got that into it.

I saw Don Coscarelli’s episode. It was great. I was always a fan of his so it was nice to see it.

What the next film will be is still up in the air. I’m in talks on something that could be pretty cool but I don’t want to mention it yet. So I’m sort of taking projects one at a time. I’m going to finish the record and then when the record’s done then I’ll start the next movie.

It’s not even a horror film.

Yes with 15 videos, which is one for every single song on the record that I made like back in 1999.

That’s a good show.

That’s why it’s so funny; they’re not even nice to each other.

I kind of get confused sometimes. The reruns are on every night so I watch those so I kind of get confused which is actually a new episode or an old episode.

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

I wouldn’t do it because I don’t want to do stuff like that. I always get offers to do stuff like that and I won’t do it. I just don’t have any desire to act.

I got one over the summer at Ozzfest.

It’s kind of funny. Our road manager is a tattoo artist so he had all this stuff with him so everybody got tattoos. I got mine the day we were supposed to play New Orleans, which is the day that the hurricane hit, so we obviously had a day off. It’s a clown but it looks like a clown off of a 1960’s popcorn box. It is like a real classic looking sort of vintage clown.

That’s going really good. Animated things take a long time but that is supposed to be finished by August 2006. It’s all based on the comics that I did for Spookshow International. I have one past the script now I’m re-writing it with Tom Pampa, comedian, who is actually doing the voice of Superbeasto.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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