Zombie finally abandons his "hellbilly" aesthetic for something more hypnotic and meditative, resulting in a hallucinatory brain-melter that marks the peak of his directing career.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Neither suspenseful nor disturbing as intended, The Lords of Salem may resist Zombie’s previous shock-fest style, but his detour into goat-sacrificing Satanism doesn’t prove any more watchable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 6, 2022

An atmospheric and enthralling take on demonic possession featuring a stacked cast of female genre stars. Low-key Zombie and Sheri Moon's best film

| Original Score: 4 | Mar 9, 2022

Rob Zombie at his most restrained in this dread-filled, trippy little film. Naysayers should definitely give this one a chance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2022

The Lords of Salem is an exciting change of pace for Rob Zombie, and his latest proves a little ingenuity can go a long way.

| Aug 9, 2019

A fun take on rock 'n' roll as the devil's music, with momentary flashes of brilliance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2019

Like Zombie the musician, Zombie the director is all style and no substance.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 20, 2019

Nevertheless, hallucinatory hogwash such as Salem will continue to dog Zombie as a campy conductor of sluggish horror-oriented hogwash.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 17, 2018

For me, The Lords of Salem is unequivocally Rob Zombie's greatest achievement as a filmmaker to date. Don't get me wrong, I have a deep-seated love for many of his other films, but there is something about Lords that just hits me deep in my soul.

| Nov 1, 2018

[Rob] Zombie's most chilling movie so far, if not his most horrific.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Tries desperately to shock and offend, and succeeds only in being brutally boring.

| Dec 4, 2013

While not forgetting the cinematic value of a coven of naked witches dancing around a bonfire, Zombie shows that he has matured as a filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 3, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2013

I saw The Lords of Salem....I didn't really like it!

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 28, 2013

Rob Zombie's tale of DJs unwittingly waking the dead in modern-day Salem is frighteningly good.

| Apr 28, 2013

"The Lords of Salem" presents an even bigger mess than usual. As the film progresses, you get inklings of a plot here and there, but one never wholly materializes, making for an incoherent and extraordinarily dull affair.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 26, 2013

Zombie loves taking his beloved spouse and turning her into a demonic witch-Madonna while The Velvet Underground drones "All Tomorrow's Parties." As horror it's not horrifying, but as a valentine to creepshow romance it's almost heartwarming

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2013

Rob Zombie has matured as a filmmaker, as witnessed by this well-structured horror shocker, which plays with both historical events and familiar movie imagery to keep us unnerved even if it's ultimately rather silly.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2013

[Rob Zombie] makes good on the promise of being one of America's most distinctive horror directors to securely become one of its best.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 25, 2013