User blog comment:MeltingLizard/Rob Zombie's Halloween/@comment-25170312-20150723173825/@comment-26030957-20150724021915

Lords of Salem was certainly a disappointment for me. That being said, if you are familiar with the films of Roman Polanski you may see what he was going for. In the nineteen seventies there were a rash of films about women going crazy. Robert Altman's masterpiece Three Women was one. Also, Polanski's Repulsion, as well as Rosemary's Baby where for much of the film we are left in doubt about whether Rosemary is crazy or really in the midst of a conspiracy of Satan worshipers. But the weirdest by far was Roman Polanski's The Tenant. It was made after the murder of his wife by the Charlie Manson family and not only stars Polanski but features bizarre shots featuring Polanski dressed as a crazy woman that many say resembled his late wife Sharon Tate. Anyway, my point is, Rob Zombie is often evoking old themes of seventies cult films and the theme of Lords of Salem is obviously the woman going crazy.