Rob Zombie recently opened up to Metal Hammer about his difficulties and financial troubles in his filmmaking career. According to the rocker, who has been involved in filmmaking for more than 20 years, the film industry is more challenging to navigate than the music industry. He stated:
“It’s about bigger money. If you want to operate on a big level and have your movie in lots of theatres all around the world, the amount of money it takes to get those things done is insane. Even a low-budget movie costs $15-20million. If you asked someone to give you $15million to make a record, they’d be like, ‘F*ck you!'”
Rob Zombie mainly focused on horror movies throughout his filmmaking career, and earlier in the same interview, he stated that he might work on other genres as well. He said:
“Someday I’ll make some other types of films. I just love making movies, although getting the money to make them is so f*cking hard that saying no to someone who is offering you money to make one seems psychotic.”
The rocker’s lowest budget was 1.5 million dollars for the 2016 movie ’31’, which also made the least profit.
With the highest budget being 15 million dollars for the sequel movie ‘Halloween II’, the budget for his latest movie ‘The Munsters’ was expected to reach 40 million dollars. Last year, Rob Zombie addressed those rumors on social media and said:
“How the hell did everyone get the idea that The Munsters cost 40 million dollars? F*ck, I wish I had that kind of budget. To put a little perspective on it all if you add up the budgets of Halloween 2, The Lords of Salem, 31, 3 From Hell and The Munsters all together it wouldn’t even add up to 30 million.”
Though there is still no official response from the filmmaker, the latest movie’s budget is estimated to be no more than 9 million dollars.
