Rob Zombie News

It has been officially announced! Starting in 3 weeks, Rob Zombie will begin shooting his first major motion picture, entitled "House of 1000 Corpses". Release date is tentatively scheduled for a February 2001 release, and will have Rob behind the camera as both director and writer. Rob has done an electronic press release, including video clips explaining his motives, and the site can be found at http://www.houseof1000corpses.com/.

The New "Mission: Impossible" movie is slated to be out in theaters soon...with a special surprise on the soundtrack! A brand new Rob Zombie song will be featured! Keep checking back for more details and release dates!

If you want to see the finished Rob Zombie doll made by the people over at MacFarland Toys, check out the March 16, 2000 issue of Rolling Stone (issue 836) with Carlos Santana on the cover. On page 27 there is an article on action figures, and Rob's doll is the centerpiece of the photo!

Lastly, for anyone who is wondering - Rob Zombie will NOT be doing Ozzfest this summer. he is concentrating on his current projects, and has no touring plans at this time. But when he does, this will be the place where you'll hear all about it!

NC2, the sequel the splatter house, zombie game Nightmare Creatures, will have some contributions from another Zombie by the name of Rob. Rob and the crew are currently in negtiations with Kalisto Development on a completely original score for the game. The game will itself will be just like the first Nightmare, but it will have more features, like more blood and guts, the ability to enter any door or passageway, more creatures, and a soundtrack full of Zombie! The game is due out on March 28, 2000 for Sega Dreamcast and the Playstation version will be released a little while later. The only difference in the two games will be the colors and the the textures. The DC version will much more detailed and real looking, but the PSX version will still be quite stunning in design and look.

After helping director Tim Burton make his "Sleepy Hollow" characters smaller than life, "Spawn" creator and toy magnate Todd McFarlane is turning his attention to the world of music with collectible figures of Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, and Janis Joplin in the works. While in New York with Burton last week to mark the arrival of "Sleepy Hollow," McFarlane said that his McFarlane Toys has collectible versions of Zombie, Cooper, and Joplin in the works and is trying to secure the rights to do a Jimi Hendrix figure. McFarlane should be no stranger to rock fans after bringing his animation to videos from Korn and Pearl Jam and supplying the cover art for Korn's "Follow The Leader" album. He has also cranked out collectible figures of Ozzy Osbourne as well as several lines of Kiss figures. As we first reported in September, McFarlane's next music-related project will be a collectible Rob Zombie figure that is expected to surface next year (see "Rob Zombie Headed To Toy Shelves"). McFarlane said that his association with Zombie actually grew out of his work with Korn, and a prototype of the figure has already been completed.

"What we're trying to convey with him, just like we did with Ozzy, is just to sort of go, 'Who is Rob Zombie?' He's a freak too, right? And you've just got to capture the freak part of it," McFarlane recently told MTV News. "He's got his costume with the big, long tentacles on it, and he has the prosthetics on there, and then the backdrop is part of the stage, and there's the dreadlocks, and he's sort of hunched over. He's not standing up sort of regal, like some of the covers I've seen on some of the magazines where he's sort of tall and imposing. [RealAudio] "I sort of made him a little gnarly like a troll-like character because of his hair and stuff," McFarlane added. "We'll see whether it passes boot camp. Altogether, it looks pretty impressive. I just saw the first finished version a couple of hours ago, and it works for me. So now we just have to see if it works for him." [RealAudio] For McFarlane and his in-house artists, the fact that Zombie himself is a strong visual artist presents a unique new challenge after dealing with subjects who are strictly musicians. "Either we're going to butt heads a lot, we're going to have a difference of opinion, or we're going to actually get, hopefully, a better product out of it, because he'll be sort of pushing me and go[ing], 'Todd, you're missing this and this and this.' Those are things that only someone close to the inner circle can do," McFarlane noted. The Zombie figure should hit stores in the first quarter of next year, while Cooper and Joplin are expected to follow later in 2000.