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Title: The Lords of Salem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: Rob Zombie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Ken Foree, Patricia Quinn, Dee Wallace, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Maria Conchita Alonso, Judy Geeson, Meg Foster, Richard Fancy, Sid Haig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rocker-turned-writer-director Rob Zombie\u00a0has, in a\u00a0fairly interesting and definitely surprising manner, carved out a certain multi-media genre niche for himself, spinning off horrific visions both\u00a0original (“The Devil’s Rejects”) and adapted (his “Halloween” remakes). His latest film in some ways seems like a no-brainer, the type of easy-fit movie Zombie (who’s devoted to to making a period piece hockey tale as his next film) could churn out every 18 months or so if he desired. In it, a Salem, Massachusetts radio deejay starts\u00a0having strange flashbacks of her town’s violent, witchy past after receiving a mysterious record addressed to her at work. Could it be… Satan?! Or maybe just some of his minions?<\/p>\n

Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, again serves as his leading lady, playing Heidi, the obligatory shot of\u00a0estrogen alongside morning zoo radio show partners Whitey (Jeff Daniel Phillips) and Herman (Ken Foree). After a guest, author Francis Mathias (Bruce Davison), appears to discuss his latest work, said package arrives. On its heels follow entrancing visions,\u00a0as well as a couple increasingly awkward interactions between Heidi, her landlady Lacey (Judy Geeson), and her landlady’s friends, Megan (Patricia Quinn) and\u00a0Sonny (Dee Wallace).\u00a0After that, more ominous stuff happens, and the bodies start accumulating.<\/p>\n

Zombie, as one might expect, has a\u00a0nice sense of aural construction.\u00a0The guitarist in his band, John 5, contributes a score, and the metronomic\u00a0bass thump of the\u00a0tune which puts Heidi in a trance is mesmerizing in its own way;\u00a0Zombie also\u00a0sneaks in some classical music as well. “The Lords of Salem,” too,\u00a0is definitely a movie of considerable production design (hat tip to Jennifer Spence and director of photography Brandon Trost), insofar as its nightmare sequences pack a to-scale punch of jangly, unsettling discomfort.<\/p>\n

But while Zombie trots out a few interesting and provocative\u00a0premises (“A lack of sensory pleasure is the principle root cause of violence,” intones the TV in the background in Heidi’s apartment), he fails to fully chase down and wrestle to the ground any of these themes in an engaging or\u00a0meaningful way. Instead,\u00a0“The Lords of Salem” basically just works its way through very familiar notions of rekindled pagan idolatry and evil. The movie charts a weekly timeline, but there’s not\u00a0really much of a ticking clock driving the plot, so its swan-dive into arbitrariness from the second act on is fairly complete.<\/p>\n

The best of Zombie’s big screen efforts have a sense of leering, organized chaos —\u00a0of merrily depraved yet finely calibrated manipulation. ‘The Lords of Salem,” though, feels… well, tame isn’t the right word. But Heidi’s ex-junkie past — which in a more ambitious film could have flowered into its own dark, knotty subplot —\u00a0is instead just a tossed-off detail,\u00a0like so many\u00a0elements here. Zombie exploits\u00a0the history of the Salem Witch Trials, but not in quite as wild and memorable a manner as one might expect.<\/p>\n

Technical: B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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