What types of nightmares does a producer of nightmares have?
One reader asks Rob Zombie via Arizona Reporter, “What are your influences; not necessarily that of music but of film and what types of things influenced your films that cause such nightmares in others?” Zombie responds, “I can’t really say I had nightmares as a kid so that not really the thing. It’s the things I grew up with, mainly its the classics, 1930’s horror movies that influenced me. Later in the 70’s when I was growing up as a teen it was ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and Dawn Of The Dead”. As far as directors I liked, it was fairly wide-ranged from Martin Scorsese to John Ford to Howard Hawks and Stephen Spielberg. You know, there’s always something in everybody’s work that gets ingrained and makes an influence at some point.” Behind the ‘Shock-Rock’ genre and ‘Zombiehead Mayhem’ that discerning mom’s save their children from falling prey; lay a mix of walking dead with headphones, listening… in Key of ‘X’. From New York’s ‘King of Goth’ n Vamp “Father Vincent” to more subtle e
