It's the story of that girl named Heidi, a DJ on the radio. One day, Heidi suddenly received a box containing a completely strange recording. It's the voice that caused the past and violent city memories. Perhaps Heidi just actually imagined that the gods returned to avenge Salem at those moments.
It's all meant to be monstrous, unspeakable, blasphemous horror but it comes across more like a slightly dirty drawing, passed in seventh-grade religion class.
HeyUGuys
April 28, 2013
I saw The Lords of Salem....I didn't really like it!
Lords of Salem may be a misfire, but it's an interesting one from an auteur with much to offer a genre that has devolved into a sodden mass of jump scares.
It's a credit to Zombie's interest in growing as an artist that he's drawing from more mature inspirations here, but it's also part of why the movie doesn't work.
Featuring some playfully deranged fantasy and flashback sequences to compliment what is overall sober, superior horror, this budding auteur of the macabre is hitting his groove.
Considerable care goes into establishing the premise, but the film eventually abandons psychological subtlety for hallucinatory garishness, which is too bad.
