Rob Zombie's "Corpses" Resurrected
Lions Gate Films has announced it has purchased the rights to release the Gothic rocker's much-delayed gorefest, which was shelved by Universal last year after the studio reportedly found it too disturbing, Daily Variety reports. ?
Zombie's feature writing and directing debut stars Karen Black (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces) and tells the story of some unlucky young people who stumble upon a family into murder, cannibalism and the odd satanic ritual. ?
The film was initially supposed to hit theaters last summer, but after Universal execs saw a rough cut--and the Motion Picture Association of America slapped the film with an NC-17 rating--the studio sold the rights back to Zombie.
For a time, MGM expressed interest but ultimately passed. Things seemed grave until Lions Gate, which recently released the critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, revived it. ?
"Rob Zombie has created an in-your-face, unrelenting horror film experience. We are really looking forward to working with Rob and having a lot of fun with the campaign," Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing, told Reuters. ?
The dreadlocked metal dude, who rose to fame fronting White Zombie before releasing solo albums like Hellbilly Deluxe, originally cut his fangs as a production assistant on Pee Wee's Playhouse as well as doing set decoration for MTV's Headbanger's Ball.
Prior to directing Corpses, he directed music videos for his own group and other metal artists, as well as animating the hallucination sequence in 1996's Beavis and Butt-head Do America.
An R-rated version of House of 1,000 Corpses is expected to hit theaters in early 2003 with an uncut DVD version to follow later in the year.
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