The Lords Of Salem
Heidi, a DJ on the radio, suddenly received a box containing a recording of 'gift from the gods.' The sound inside that caused flashbacks of violent past of the town. Did Heidi only imagine, or indeed that the gods were back to avenge Salem town?
29 February 1948, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
29 June 1957, Cienfuegos, Cuba
20 July 1947, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA
1961
14 October 1944, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7 November 1957, New York City, New York, USA
14 February 1936, Jennings, Florida, USA
10 May 1948, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
18 January 1964, Waterville, Maine, USA
July 14, 2016
Lords of Salem may be a misfire, but it's an interesting one from an auteur with much to offer a genre that has devolved into a sodden mass of jump scares.May 03, 2013
While not forgetting the cinematic value of a coven of naked witches dancing around a bonfire, Zombie shows that he has matured as a filmmaker.April 19, 2013
It's all meant to be monstrous, unspeakable, blasphemous horror but it comes across more like a slightly dirty drawing, passed in seventh-grade religion class.April 28, 2013
I saw The Lords of Salem....I didn't really like it!April 18, 2013
Considerable care goes into establishing the premise, but the film eventually abandons psychological subtlety for hallucinatory garishness, which is too bad.April 19, 2013
It's a credit to Zombie's interest in growing as an artist that he's drawing from more mature inspirations here, but it's also part of why the movie doesn't work.April 18, 2013
"The Lords of Salem" will make you feel bad. But it's supposed to.April 19, 2013
Movies by Rob Zombie, the goth rocker turned cult filmmaker, aren't for everybody. But he couldn't care less.December 04, 2013
Tries desperately to shock and offend, and succeeds only in being brutally boring.April 28, 2013
Rob Zombie's tale of DJs unwittingly waking the dead in modern-day Salem is frighteningly good.April 25, 2013
Polished and calculated, this is a nerve-shattering fright fest bolstered by immaculate technique.May 02, 2013
Featuring some playfully deranged fantasy and flashback sequences to compliment what is overall sober, superior horror, this budding auteur of the macabre is hitting his groove.