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Rob Zombie Launches 'Spookshow' For Halloween
10/22/2003 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
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(10/22/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Horror rocker Rob Zombie may be taking a break from recording, but he's busy with tons of other projects. First out of the gate will be a new comic book series called Spookshow International. The first issue comes out on Halloween and will feature stories written by Rob and drawn by a variety of artists. He gave LAUNCH a sneak preview of what to expect.
"There's three different stories in each issue that continue, and they're kind of all over the place," Zombie said. "Some of them are really, my favorite one is this thing called 'El Superbeasto,' which is sort of like this Mexican wrestler hero guy, but it's sort of like adult but silly. He lives in this sort of world that's nothing but monsters and strippers, so it's sort of like an Austin Powers meets the Munsters type thing. So some of them are ridiculous like that, and some of them are a little more serious."
Zombie is also getting ready to direct the sequel to his popular and controversial filmmaking debut, House Of 1000 Corpses. He told LAUNCH what direction he plans to take the movie in. "It's a very different movie this time around," Zombie said. "It's much darker, more serious movie, so we wanna really take all the characters that starred in the first movie and, you know, really flesh 'em out. The first one is what it is, but to continue on in that direction in any way would just make it become kind of like a joke--too campy, too silly. So the next one's really, it's not very humorous at all."
Zombie says he completed the script for House Of 1000 Corpses 2 last week and hopes to start shooting right after Christmas. Expect a different title as well.
Zombie's new album is a greatest hits collection called Past, Present, And Future. The first single is a brand new tune called "Two Lane Blacktop."
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