May 8, 2003: An Open Letter to Rob Zombie
May 8, 2003
Lions Gate Entertainment
4553 Glencoe Avenue, Suite 200
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
ATTN: Rob Zombie
Mr. Zombie,
On Friday, May 1st, 2003, members of the BMTG, including the Senior Council,
attended a showing of your big screen effort House of 1,000 Corpses.
You have done an injustice to the genre. Corpses is no more than
a masturbation vehicle for psychopaths who fantasize about the brutal torturing
and slaying of the innocent and defenseless. The younger, the more naive,
and the less able to defend themselves, the more satisfying the climax to
those with an extreme violence fetish. You are now responsible for the most
widely distributed simulated snuff film in history.
While you don't have any responsibility to the BMTG in regards to how you wish to divulge what is decaying in your mind, the BMTG does have the responsibility to give you honest feedback so you can grow as an artist. Aside from the legitimately frightening effort from Sid Haig, the only significant fragment of originality in Corpses was the ever-increasing helplessness of the victims coupled with the escalating viciousness of their deaths. This is of course no accident. When the DVD is made available, the piercing din of creaking cots will fill our ears as life-term mental patients punch their way through your movie and claim you as their messiah. While most people strive to leave humanity a little better than when they arrived, the BMTG suspects that you will need to make a few "Raffie" type cd's and PSA's on personal hygiene to get back to even.
Later!!
(SIGNED BY THE BMTG BIG FOUR)