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Rob Zombie Bio
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Rob Zombie
As his pseudonym indicates, Rob Zombie is a musician, writer, artist, and director with an odd fascination of all things horror and fictionally and realistically macabre. He is best known as the founder of the heavy metal/industrial rock band White Zombie, but Rob Zombie’s career is much deeper than the surface dreadlocks and gruff voice associated with his underground cult music.
Rob Zombie was born Robert Bartleh Cummings on January 12, 1965 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In his youth, he and younger brother, Michael, were in constant pursuit of all things associated with classic monsters, EC Comics, and gory grade-B horror flicks. Though the brothers had an interest in design, his brother Michael pursued a musical career while Rob pursued a career in publishing and moved to New York to attend Pratt Institute.
While working in production for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Zombie and love interest Shuana Reynolds (her real name Sean Yseult), decided to form a band inspired by their combined interests in horror, sci-fi, and all the weirder aspects of American underground. Though neither of them were musicians, they formed White Zombie and Rob studied vocals as Rob Straker and Reynolds, as Sean Yseult, learned bass. In the mid 80s they released three EPs and in 1987, their debut album, Soul-Crusher through indie label Silent Explosion.
In 1992, signed to major label Geffen, White Zombie released the album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 and became an underground smash. Through the nineties, White Zombie released two more albums, with the third and final their last commercial album. Rob however pursued music as both a solo artist and formed his own production company, Zombie-A-Go-Go in 1998, a label under which he produces for his brother’s band, Powerman 5000.
Receiving recognition for creating all of the artwork for White Zombie’s albums and also for animating the hallucination scene in Beavis and Butthead Do America, along with production of all of White Zombie’s videos, it was natural that Zombie would try his hand in the film industry.
His writing and directorial film debut was the 88-minute House of 1000 Corpses (HO1KC). The film was highly controversial and though Zombie had expected Universal Studios, with whom he had developed a working relationship by designing mazes for Universal Studio’s Halloween Horrors Night, to take the film. Universal rejected the movie outright and it took another three years before the film was released through Lion’s Gate pictures. In 2005, The Devil’s Rejects, Zombie’s follow-up sequel to HO1KC, was released.
Zombie is currently working with Dimension Studios on a remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween. Zombie is married to Sherri Moon, a dancer/model turned horror flick actress after meeting Zombie. She appears in both his first films and is slated to appear in the Halloween remake scheduled for release in October of 2007. |
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