The Rob Zombie Animated Horror Musical You Probably Missed

The Rob Zombie Animated Horror Musical You Probably Missed

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Rob Zombie’s The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, is “one of the strangest tales ever told” for a reason, and is very on-brand for the director.

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The Rob Zombie Animated Horror Musical You Probably Missed

Rob Zombie is one of the most exciting modern horror directors because he’s fully dedicated to his own art and style; however, even fans of Zombie’s work might not know about his animated horror musical, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.

In many ways, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto reads like a love letter to horror movie tropes while embracing absolute absurdity without the limitations of live actors to hold it back. The film, which was made in 2009 on a healthy budget of $10 million, was based on a comic book that was also written by Zombie. The director is a known film buff who has a deep appreciation for not only horror but other genre films; this animated endeavor serves as a love letter to them all. While it is certainly an adult cartoon, much in the style of Comedy Central’s raunchy Drawn Together, it’s something no horror fan should miss, yet it has somehow managed to slip under the radar.

With its opening homage to Frankenstein which declares it as “one of the strangest tales ever told”, the story of a former masked wrestler who is known as El Superbeasto (Tom Papa) who is trying to save the world from the nefarious Dr. Satan (Paul Giamatti) in a city known as Monsterland.

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Rob Zombie’s The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto Is An Underrated Gem

First and foremost, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto features a phenomenal cast, which includes Tom Papa, Sheri Moon Zombie, Paul Giamatti, Rosario Dawson, Brian Posehn, Dee Wallace, Ken Foree, Danny Trejo, Cassandra Peterson, Sid Haig, and Bill Moseley, among others. The project was clearly a labor of love for Zombie, who worked on it starting in 2006, while he was involved with The Devil’s Rejects. While he temporarily had to step away from the project to work on his Halloween remakes in 2007 and 2009, respectively, Zombie always came back to El Superbeasto. The film was finalized in 2009 and released in September of the same year from Anchor Bay Media. Likely, many people missed it because many production issues led fans to believe the project might never release.

The musical stylings of the film are different than what fans of Zombie’s musical career would expect; this is largely due to the fact that the majority of the songs are done by Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman, who are known as the comedy duo Hard ‘N Phirm. However, despite the comedy stylings of Tom Papa being interwoven into music that isn’t always Zombie’s aesthetic, El Superbeasto’s overall style is very reminiscent of Zombie’s genre-bending, boundary pushing style that is never afraid to ride the line of entertaining obscenity. The Easter eggs are a treat every time one is revealed, and the film involves brief cameos from many major characters in the horror genre, including Michael Myers, Leatherface, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jack Torrance, and some of Zombie’s own characters (Captain Spaulding and Otis Driftwood from House of 1000 Corpses).

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In a 2009 interview with Slashfilm, Zombie described his project as, “… unlike any movie. It’s very adult. I don’t know. I like to say that it’s Scooby-Doo meets NC-17.” Though The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto is one of Rob Zombie’s lesser known features, it’s certainly worth adding to his varied and intriguing filmography, even though it’s commonly overlooked and excluded.

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