The Lords of Salem (2012)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 101 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom / Canada
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Stars: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison and Jeff Daniel Phillips
IMDb score:
5,2 (33.371)
Releasedate: 18 April 2013
The Lords of Salem plot
"We've been waiting... we've always been waiting"
Heidi, a blonde rock chick, is a DJ at a local radio station and forms the 'Big H Radio Team' with Herman Whitey Salvador and Herman Jackson. Then she receives a wooden box with a vinyl record that reads "a gift from the Lords". When she plays the record, it plays backwards and she experiences flashbacks of a traumatic past. When Whitey plays the record it plays forward and becomes a huge hit with the listeners. Then they receive a new wooden box from the Lords with free tickets, posters and recordings of a performance in Salem. They soon find out it's not a rock show: the Salem lords return and want blood...
Actors and actresses
Heidi Hawthorne
Francis Matthias
Herman Whitey Salvador
Lacy Doyle
Margaret Morgan
Megan
Herman Jackson
Sonny
Alice Matthias
AJ Kennedy
Reviews & comments
cucciolo
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- 491 messages
- 1086 votes
Oh boy, what a bizarre film! A freak show of the highest order. Delightfully wrong, sometimes clearly searching for the boundaries of what is/isn't possible, but still bursting with originality. The only downside I find is that (anti)religion had to be brought in to contribute to the ominous atmosphere, doesn't really add value for me. Fortunately, the film doesn't take itself too seriously, which I find a plus in horror films.
Furthermore, the tension was built up to perfection and you are gradually drawn further into the approaching threat. Really great class.
Content-wise it wasn't really that impressive, but then again I didn't get the feeling that that was the intention. The decor, atmosphere, tension, fascination, and actually all sorts of elements drag you along as if you're almost hypnotized. The film manages to do that nicely.
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Insignificance
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- 3220 messages
- 5581 votes
Medieval aunts with rotten teeth and cobwebbed hair who, panting and hissing, throw all sorts of occult prayers into the film. Preferably with a growl. It's not my kind of horror. Even in the present, this group of witches is not something that appeals to me, but Zombie still manages to conjure up something nice on screen and from the speakers. Spooky, that song, and the deeper Sheri Moon sinks into it, the more fun it gets. Not everything works, but the I'm-going-for-it finale has something.
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Woland
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- 4517 messages
- 3650 votes
Not at all what I expected, especially considering my previous experiences with Rob Zombie. Which were fine, no doubt about it, but Zombie goes in a different direction here. The Lords of Salem is much more mysterious, leaves the action and humor largely at home, and focuses in an almost psychedelic way on the mental decline of Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie) as a result of the influence of the witches. Fortunately, he still likes a good soundtrack. And although it is a bit slow and sometimes boring, it still delivers a pretty decent film.
Lords of Salem is set in the well-known Salem, MA. It will come as no surprise that witchcraft plays an important role in the film. We see the original witches at work in Salem, and The Crucible it is not - here too they are really satanic, dirty, naked scumbags who want to resurrect the Antichrist. And if not in their seventeenth-century present, then in the future. In our present, Heidi works as a DJ at a local radio station, and when she receives a package with a recording of the Lords of Salem, things slowly go wrong. Slowly she also becomes possessed, she comes under the influence of her witchy neighbors, and we see all this escalate to a performance by the Lords of Salem themselves. Well, we don't see a performance, but we do see a series of increasingly strange images and visions culminating in Heidi giving birth to a demon. I would have liked a little less vague visions and dreams, and a little more plot, but I'm still more positive than the consensus here.
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