The Untold Truth Of Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie does a lot of things professionally — he's a horror-influenced hard rock musician, a filmmaker, and a comic book artist (responsible for, among other titles, "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto"). He's living his life out loud, and amazingly, it's according to a plan he set out for himself in a "what I want to be when I grow up" assignment from early childhood.
"My mom used to keep this book where they put your school picture from first grade, and then you fill out what you want to be when you grow up," Zombie told Yahoo Entertainment. "I'd say, 'I wanna be a comic book maker,' or 'I wanna make movies.' And yeah, I sort of just stuck with the first-grade plan." More specifically, he aimed to be like "Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Bela Lugosi, and Stan Lee." Not just one of those things — a shock rocker, director, horror icon, and comic maker — but all of them.
One other individual who influenced Zombie's whole vibe is fictional but no less important. "I remember seeing 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' and I was so young, I thought it was all real," he told Rolling Stone. "By the time I was old enough to know that it wasn't, I figured, 'Well, why can't it be?' I guess I never lost my fascination for anything that I immediately liked as a kid."
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