Rob Zombie Net Worth

Rob Zombie's Quotes

• [on directing and working for film studios] They hire you and suddenly they don't trust you. And you say, "Well, why did you hire me?" and they say, "We can't tell you."
• [SPOILER: commenting on killing off the lead characters in The Devil's Rejects (2005)] That was always the ending and every actor had a complaint about that. I wanted to do it because it seems like nobody makes a movie anymore without a sequel set up. Lions Gate was like "The franchise... It's gone." But you know, that's the problem. I feel like there's never a definitive ending anymore. Every movie ends with the possibility of another one and it drives me crazy. I feel like, "Why did I just invest two hours? It didn't even end." [Zombie later made 3 from Hell (2019), a sequel that brings the three lead characters back from the "dead"...]
• I'd just be obsessed with a movie. I'd need more. So we'd make Super-8s at home. It's funny I should remake Halloween (1978), because one of the movies I made as a kid in high school was a sequel to [John Carpenter's] Escape from New York (1981). Later, you know, I moved to New York to go to school, got kicked out, and worked as a bike messenger and on Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), and then started a band. Making movies seemed like, "How do you do that? I don't even have money to eat. I'm not gonna make movies." It's great now for kids, make some goofy movie, stick it on YouTube, and you're a hero. Back then, it was like: "Man, I can't wait till I can save enough money to develop the film."
• I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
• [on rushing Halloween II (2009) into production] That's the problem making a movie called Halloween: If you come out Nov. 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I'd be fine.

Interesting Facts about Rob Zombie

1. His brother, Spider One, is lead singer of the metal band Powerman 5000.
2. Had originally written the screenplay for The Crow: Salvation (2000), and was also supposed to direct and supervise the music for the movie. Continual clashes with the producers led to his being fired from the film. The screenplay he had written is now the screenplay for Legend of the 13 Graves.
3. Owns the "Zombie-A-Go-Go" record label.
4. Once managed his brother's band Powerman 5000.
5. His wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, is on the cover of his album "American Made Music to Strip By" (1999).
6. Designed a maze for Universal Studios' "Halloween Horror Nights" (1999 and 2000).
7. Drew the hallucination scene in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996).
8. Draws most of the illustrations on White Zombie's and his solo CD booklets.
9. Universal Pictures dropped his film debut House of 1000 Corpses (2003), fearing it would get an NC-17 rating.
10. One of his favorite horror movies is Black Christmas (1974). He considers the film to be underrated as he first watched it around the holiday season and remembers being terrified of it.
11. His film House of 1000 Corpses (2003) was inspired mainly by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).
12. Has a pair of boots that he has been wearing for over 20 years.
13. Is a huge fan of horror movies. Zombies are one of his favorite sub-genres of horror.
14. Is friends with heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne.
15. Has a fascination with Charles Manson.
16. Collector of classic movie posters including horror films and The Marx Brothers comedies, after whom he named several of the characters in House of 1000 Corpses (2003) (A Night at the Opera (1935)'s Otis Driftwood, De dictator (1933)'s Rufus Firefly, Animal Crackers (1930)'s Captain Spaulding, etc.).
17. Is close friends with his hero Alice Cooper.
18. Named his first heavy metal band White Zombie, after the Bela Lugosi film White Zombie (1932).
19. Wants to open up his own night club for unsigned acts.
20. Member of the unofficial "Splat Pack", a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for the modern wave of directors making brutally violent horror movies. The other "Splat Pack" members are Alexandre Aja, Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall, Greg McLean, Eli Roth, James Wan and Leigh Whannell.