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Where does he go from here, as a director?


His first three films, House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The Devil's Rejects (2005) & Halloween (2007) are the only ones to make a profit. Even then they weren't big money makers.

Halloween II (2009) barely broke even.

The Lords of Salem (2012) flopped.

He needed crowdfunding to make 31 (2016). It flopped.

3 From Hell (2019) got funded because of the cult following of the previous Firefly films. It flopped.

Fuck knows how he got The Munsters (2022) gig, in any case it got dumped straight to streaming.



Not sure what he does now. Is he done? I like some of his music and his first few movies were great but his whole thing got old quite quickly. That 'trailer trash' grungey exploitation vibe. Maybe if they decide to reboot (again!) the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise he could get a chance?

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Can you imagine a Hallmark or Great American Family movie directed by Rob Zombie.

Bruce Campbell has starred in a Hallmark movie, so it's not that beyond the realm of possibilities.

My guess if he wants to keep directing, it will be low end stuff but man, he'll make it high end.

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I think we can expect more made for streaming flicks from him. His music was on the back burner for a while but he's been touring pretty hard since Munsters. That's definitely how he's still paying his bills.

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The big problem with Zombie is that he's notoriously hard to work with. Most of his crew for House of 1000 Corpses walked off the set or were fired for mundane reasons. He basically finished that movie with a crew of only a few people, with Zombie holding the camera and doing most of the work himself. He's known to bully the below-the-line crew members pretty mercilessly. Even his old regulars like Bill Moseley do not like him very much anymore. This, combined with the fact that he makes pretty terrible movies, has probably scared away any and all investors.

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Halloween II really did end his mainstream film career. Everything after has had very limited theatrical releases. None have played anywhere near me. But they've all had pretty small budgets so I would hope that between whatever they made in the few theaters they played in and then DVD/Blu-ray and streaming, they were able to turn some kind of profit. But as for his future, I unfortunately think it's a bad sign that when asked in an interview if he would make a Munsters sequel, he said "no" and that he was going to focus on music for the time being. Not even a "we'll see" or "maybe." Just "no."

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