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Something interesting that I noticed


A link between various Rob zombie movies: At the end of House of 1,000 Corpses, Bill Moseley's character Otis wears "corpse make-up" with an upside down cross on his forehead and sacrifices his prisoners in an occult ritual.

In part of Lords of Salem (and on the cover) Sheri Moon wears the same make-up configuration. In 31, Lew Temple's character Psycho-Head wears the same make-up configuration.

It seems to me that in his movie universe, these different events all have involvement by a wide-ranging cult. The Firefly family, the Salem witches, and Psycho-Head all seem to be linked to the same underworld cult.

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Hey, scrapmetal7,

Exactly. There's something connecting all of Rob's movies. Everything you said is a fact. All those "outfits"/"masks" are indeed the same or very, very, very similar. When The Lords Of Salem came out, Rob said it's pretty much directly related to his two Halloween movies. According to the IMDB TLOS trivia page: "Rob Zombie has hinted at this film being a metaphorical and spiritual prequel to his Halloween films."

Also, as NuxCapacitor remarked: "There is an all-seeing-eye in the bathroom, after all.". If you pay close attention, there's indeed at least one "all-seeing eye" inside the triangle/pyramid in the movie. Also, when Charly is hiding in the bathroom stalls shortly after "the game" begins, she sees the wall to her left is filled with extremely gruesome close-up photographs of horribly dismembered, maimed, damaged corpses of previous victims of Father Murder, Sister Dragon and Sister Serpent and all the "Heads" they've "employed", just like in the Fireflys's scrapbooks and albums seen in TDR.

Once again, Rob's clearly trying to get a message across to his audience, just like his great idol the Great STANLEY KUBRICK did. Even the "headquarters" of Father Murder, Sister Dragon and Sister Serpent, including their naked female aides-de-camp or whatever are very clear homages and references to at least Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut and A Clockwork Orange...

Intriguing stuff, no doubt...

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Or he's not very creative and uses the same designs in all his movies.

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I second this. It's all quite stale.

We've met before, haven't we?

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