Holy crap does this movie just fall right the fuck off the cliff after a promising first act.
Written and Directed by Rob Zombie and starring his wife Sheri, Lords Of Salem is the story of a Salem DJ, played by Sheri, who receives an odd record in the mail one day. Upon playing it, weird things start to happen to her and everyone who hears it.
The movie starts off fairly strong with some really good atmosphere and a great visual style, Zombie captures the creepiness of Autumn in New England and uses it to his advantage. Sheri is understated yet convincing and the film really seems like it's going somewhere fun, but then.........I have no earthly idea.
Demonic stuff starts to happen with her landlady and the landladys two sisters, there are a ton of creepy sequences but they take you completely out of whatever the narrative is supposed to be until the film just ends with a lot of witches, and the word cunt being shoehorned in everywhere, and images that are supposed to be creepy or unsettling but just comes across as silly.
None of the secondary characters are really fleshed out enough after the first act to make you care about them all that much, although up until a point their motivations are still sort of intriguing. But the movie hits the breaking point on that with a good 40 minutes left and what we're left with is a jumbled mess of something less than entertaining.
Everything seemed to be in place for a fun movie, but ultimately Lords Of Salem just turns into a never ending hodgepodge of weirdness for weirdness sakes, that's neither scary or interesting.
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