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Lords of Salem Filming Update

Here's a new article in which Rob Zombie talks about filming a Woolite commercial and returning to Massachusetts to film Lords of Salem at the end of the summer.

"...it's a very unique-looking town when it comes to the architecture of the buildings and the streets. I had kind of forgotten... I went back [to Salem] recently to do some scouting. I forgot how interesting the houses and the buildings were. It's very cinematic. It's a great back backdrop for something like this."       --Robert Bartleh Cummings Zombie

Anyway, IM Global Films recently released a synopsis of Lords of Salem and it goes like this:

     Heidi, a blonde rock chick, DJs at a local radio station, and together with the two Hermans (Whitey and Munster) forms part of the “Big H Radio Team”. 
     A mysterious wooden box containing a vinyl record arrives for Heidi, “a gift from the Lords”. She assumes it’s a rock band on a mission to spread their word. As Heidi and Whitey play the Lords’ record, it starts to play backwards, and Heidi experiences a flashback to a past trauma. 
     Later Whitey plays the Lords’ record, dubbing them the Lords of Salem, and to his surprise, the record plays normally and is a massive hit with listeners.
     The arrival of another wooden box from the Lords presents the Big H Team with free tickets, posters and records to host a gig in Salem. Soon Heidi and her cohorts find that the gig is far from the rock spectacle they’re expecting: the original Lords of Salem are returning, and they’re out for BLOOD.

According to the article, the film will be very "effects-heavy."  So the pre-production in the effects department has been working diligently on some disgusting masks and bodyparts no doubt.  Exciting!

Here are some pictures of the guys at Wayne Toth FX working on some props for the film.

Lords of Salem Update

Rob Zombie posted this on his blog promoting his next film Lords of Salem.  He says the image comes from a very painful scene.  Sounds scary but I'm usually not frightened by horror films.  Though, throw a couple of vacuums into the mix and I will freak out.  The vacuum being my natural enemy.

Anyway, according to an interview in Empire filming is supposed to start in Salem, MA around April, 18.  That's Boston Marathon day for all the idiots who run.  Good luck dummies.

The rumor is that the film will start with a prologue set in the year 1692.  Then they will jump to present day and stuff starts to get weird.  Awesome, I'm so psyched I feel like rolling around on the floor and exposing my belly!

Yay!

Location Scouting

Here are a couple of shots from Rob Zombie's location scouting for Lords of Salem. Look familiar?

According to his blog, they are moving full steam ahead on 'Lords of Salem.'  I still think there's a part for me in this movie.  How can you make a horror film based in Salem, MA without a black cat?

Look at my range, I can be scary:

Previously on Warrening.

Objectified In Film

Can you name the movies these objects are from? 
Here's a game.

My guesses from left to right are:

Mac and Me, A Documentary About Rush Limbaugh and Speed.

Thank you Presurfer.

Absolutely Gripping!

That real tragedy is that couch.

Thank you to The Awesomer.

Market Street, San Francisco 1906

According to this video people in San Francisco in 1906 would constantly cut each other off in their horse carriages and model-T's.  This is a rare public domain film which has been digitally restored. A previous degraded version was used for a music video by the French "band" Air.  (the word band should be considered to be heavily quoted)  See below:



This film was taken just days before an enormous earthquake on April 18, 1906. The subsequent fires destroyed much of the city.  An estimated $400 Million of property was lost which is the equivalent of about $5.75 Billion today.

Behind the Scenes of Star Wars

More from Vanity Fair.

Via Things I Think Are Kinda Cool.

E.T. Is Back and He's Going to Mess You Up



Bleakfest

Later this spring, Haverhill native, Rob Zombie, will start principal photography on his newest project "Lords of Salem."  In an interview with Empire magazine, Zombie calls Lords of Salem "the bleakest" of his films.

Inspired by the Salem witch trials, the film won't be a period piece, but will sport a prologue set in 1692. "There were twenty people that everyone knows about - obviously all innocent - executed as witches in Salem," explains Rob. "The basic premise of the film is that there were a further four who actually were witches, who were killed secretly, and vowed one day to return to wreak havoc on Salem's descendants. That's when the movie jumps ahead to the present day and things start to go wrong..."

Sounds like a blast. 

I wonder if there is any room for a black cat in this film.  I can do bleak, my range is ridonculous. 

Boom! melancholy.