Rob Zombie (born
Robert Bartleh Cummings;
[3] January 12, 1965) is an American
musician,
film director,
screenwriter and
film producer. He founded the
metal band
White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the
Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
Zombie has also established a successful career as a film director, creating the movies House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, the 2007 remake of Halloween, its sequel, and The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. His next film will be the upcoming Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Zombie was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He is the brother of Spider One (Michael David Cummings), lead singer for Powerman 5000. Zombie married longtime girlfriend Sheri Moon in 2002, whom he also frequently features in his horror films. He currently lives in Woodbury, Connecticut and Los Angeles, California. Rob Zombie is an ethical vegetarian, and has been since 1982.
In 1996, Zombie collaborated with Alice Cooper on the song "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" for the X-Files tie-in CD Songs in the Key of X. It was Zombie's first work outside of his band White Zombie. The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Metal Performance the same year.
