While Rob Zombie was establishing himself as one of metal’s most thrilling entertainers, first as frontman of White Zombie and then as a solo artist, he also had a little side-hustle going on. It was during this era that Zombie, now a well-renowned horror director of films such as House Of 1000 Corpses, 2007’s Halloween and its 2009 sequel, The Munsters and more, put himself through self-taught film school.
Making films was something he always wanted to do, Zombie once told Metal Hammer’s Joel McIver, but he had no idea how to make it happen. “I first started directing White Zombie videos and my solo videos,” he said, “and then I did them for Ozzy and Black Label Society and other bands.” Zombie stated that making these music videos became his crash-course in filmmaking. “I’d always studied movies and read about them obsessively since I was a little kid, and then I got a chance to make one, so I took it and ran with it.”
