Heidi, uma DJ de rádio, é enviada uma caixa com discos, que parece ser um presente dos Senhores. Os sons dentro de eles acionam memórias de sua cidade. Heidi está ficando louca ou os Senhore... Ler tudoHeidi, uma DJ de rádio, é enviada uma caixa com discos, que parece ser um presente dos Senhores. Os sons dentro de eles acionam memórias de sua cidade. Heidi está ficando louca ou os Senhores voltaram para se vingar de Salem?Heidi, uma DJ de rádio, é enviada uma caixa com discos, que parece ser um presente dos Senhores. Os sons dentro de eles acionam memórias de sua cidade. Heidi está ficando louca ou os Senhores voltaram para se vingar de Salem?
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Avaliações em destaque
Zombie has dispatched of the white trash and "edgy" characters that typically populate his films and has given us a mature, stylish, and remarkably unsettling witchcraft story that feels like it could have been made my some European auteur in the 70's.
From the very first scene, Lords of Salem pulls us in with a disturbing prologue featuring a terrifying performance by Meg Foster (who goes for broke) as the head of a coven of witches. She vows to control all the women in Salem. Years later, a DJ plays a mysterious record on the air that ends up doing just that - controlling all the women of Salem to do the witch's bidding.
Lords of Salem is a surreal, nightmarish, and bizarre film that I'd compare to the works of Kubrick, Russell, Fulci, and Argento. It has a few missteps here and there, but it's a satisfying and unforgettable film.
And now having seen it, I sit here with my expectations and hopes totally shattered. The movie was mostly an odd mixture of bits and pieces of incoherent imagery that had the usual Rob Zombie trademark touch to it, yes, but in overall the story got lost along the way in the imagery. And as such, the movie was a rather dull experience.
Storywise, then it wasn't particularly captivating or innovating. The story is about Heidi Hawthorne (played by Sheri Moon Zombie) who receives a strange record at the radio station where she works together with Herman 'Whitey' Salvador (played by Jeff Daniel Phillips) and Herman Jackson (played by Ken Foree). The haunting tune on the record opens up to the dark and sinister past of the witching era of Salem, unleashing power that were better left in the past.
Out of the entire cast, then I think it was actually Bruce Davison (playing Francis Matthias) who did the best job, and made the most memorable impact with his acting. The rest of the cast did good enough jobs, but it just didn't fully shine through.
Don't get your hopes up too high, unless you are into weird imagery that doesn't necessarily need to have a solid supporting story to be interesting. But, personally, I wasn't entertained by this movie, and I actually had my smartphone out at a point and was playing Jewels Star.
I suppose everyone throws a swing and a miss every now and then, and for me, then this was one such instances from Rob Zombie.
Much to my surprise, the film starts off pretty effectively. Although the annoying "loud sound" cliché is used here whenever there's something spooky in the background (HINT filmmakers- stop putting a loud noise over a great scare moment in an atmosphere such as this. It just ruins it) there was enough great build-up of atmosphere and the story was evolving nicely, not to mention many of the visual imagery really got under my skin. However, as I probably should have expected, Zombie's just not that smart of a film-maker to create a film like this. There's a really great version of this story to be told somewhere, but Zombie, as usual, over-indulges and just keeps on assaulting our senses starting in the second half that by the time the third act starts, I was honestly bored out of my mind and just rolling my eyes at all of the "visuals". The film just starts off great and burns out the more it goes on, and by the end it ultimately just leaves a very bad taste in your mouth and the second half just basically erases everything the first half build so cautiously to create. It feels pointless and redundant.
I've never disliked Moon Zombie, but her acting range has always seem limited. Here though, she's pretty impressive and I actually think Zombie did her a disservice. He should have just given a basic summary of this storyline to more talented filmmakers to write and direct it. Because it's definitely ambitious and definitely something that could have been truly amazing, that's what makes this film his most disappointing. I never expected anything unformulaic out of his other films, but because this started off with such potential and by the end I had to force myself not to fall asleep, it's just disheartening. A Rob Zombie film that is self-indulgent and stupid? Expected. But a boring one? Now that's a new low.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThere are no digital effects in the film.
- Erros de gravaçãoOn her web biography page, Heidi's name is spelled Adelheid Elizabeth Hawthroen instead of Hawthorne.
- Citações
Sonny: [Observing a bloated body] What a waste of a good man.
Lacy Doyle: Yes, such a pity. And he was never gonna be able to stop anything.
Megan: [sighs] Anyone care for a fresh pot of tea?
Lacy Doyle: Lovely, darling.
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosThe closing credits appear over gloomy images of Salem.
- ConexõesFeatured in Half in the Bag: Oblivion and the Lords of Salem (2013)
- Trilhas sonorasBlinded By The Light
Written and Published by Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP)
Performed by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. and Creature Music Limited
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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- Também conhecido como
- Los señores de Salem
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- Orçamento
- US$ 1.500.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 1.165.882
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 642.942
- 21 de abr. de 2013
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 1.544.989
- Tempo de duração
- 1 h 41 min(101 min)
- Cor
- Mixagem de som
- Proporção
- 2.39 : 1