Where is that Rob Zombie sample from? Here is a collection of the film and media samples from every Rob Zombie song, along with where the sample is originally from. Have an addition? Send us an email or tweet!
Double Feature also has in-depth episodes on all of Rob Zombie’s films. Podcast episodes listed from most recent to least recent.
Dragula
“Superstition, fear, and jealousy.”
The City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel (1960)
Living Dead Girl
“Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?”
Lady Frankenstein trailer (1971)
“What are you thinking about?”
“The same thing you are.”
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Demonoid Phenomenon
“Don’t lie to yourself. It gave you pleasure.”
“You enjoyed that dead girl’s body.”
Reedited from the original film-
“Don’t lie to yourself. You were pleased. It gave you pleasure. You actually enjoyed seeing that dead girl’s body.”
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Meet the Creeper
“The devil is in all of you!”
Mark of the Devil (1970)
What Lurks on Channel X?
“Thirteen acres of hell.”
Reedited from the original trailer-
“It rests on 13 acres of earth, over the very center of hell.”
The Last House on the Left trailer (1972)
“Ladies and gentlemen,I would like to make the following statement.”
“The young generation, that sick generation”
“Impressionable young peoplee”
“Brutal honesty will be shown on this screen.”
The Undertaker And His Pals (1966)
Return of the Phantom Stranger
“She lies there, waiting for the sacrifice.”
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
The Beginning of the End
“Try to remember.”
The Shadow radio show episode The Death House Rescue, or possibly the film Madhouse
Sinners Inc.
“Sin, sin, sin. You’re all sinners! You’re all going to the painful everlasting fiery hell!”
Elmer Gantry (1960)
“I wish I could die. I don’t know what’s going to happen to any of us. This doesn’t explain. It’s too late.”
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Demon Speeding
“Why don’t you ask me what it feels like to be a freak?”
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Dead Girl Superstar
“Get out there and make it look good!”
“I want you to come out there and shake your asses proper!”
Reedited from the original film-
“And when I call you, I want you to come out there and shake your asses proper! You hear? Hah? Now get out there and make it look good!”
Truck Turner (1974)
Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)
“Use my body to keep you alive.”
The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969)
Feel So Numb
“Prometo solemnemente defender el bien y luchar contra la injusticia y la maldad.”
Mil Máscaras (1969)
Transylvanian Transmissions Pt. 1
“I was waiting for you. Jude, what’s wrong?”
“Oh it’s nothing, it’s just a readjustment.”
“Your eyes!”
The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
“The … comes and goes, but tonight I saw very clearly.”
Unknown
House of 1,000 corpses
“Police have identified more victims and plan on more than just the four murder charges filed today.”
“Confirmed earlier reports of cannibalism.”
“The building was a scene of ghoulish slaughter.”
“A large kettle on the stove which held boiled body parts.”
“…killed even more…”
“Had sex with some of his victims before he killed them, and that he was also a necrophiliac.”
“Said the Rabbit, Sit on my tail and go with me to my Rabbit Hutch!”
“Mary! Mary!! I’m gonna get you! I’m gonna get you!”
“Authorities continue to release details of the murders, they still have no explanation as to why it all happened.”
“The medical examiner says he expects to positively identify most victims.”
“File cabinets, in the refrigerator, and open boxes.”
“The police department continues to be flooded with calls from families with missing loved ones.”
“Says he killed even more.”
“Arrested on suspicion of mass murder.”
“Some of these murder at least have been committed outside the city limits.”
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Unholy Three
“The effect is disappating at least ten minutes faster now. I’m going to need stronger doses, more frequently”
“Nonetheless, humans are more sexual than animals. You know it!”
The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969)
American Witch
“This is a journey back to fear, guilt, anxiety.”
Unknown
Foxy, Fox
“Oh yeah, can you make it harder?”
Unknown
Ride
“It has no motives, no limits. It can’t hurt, can it? See what it is.”
Unknown
Rob Zombie lists this as part of the lyrics, so there’s a good possibility it’s original content recorded for the album.
Sick Bubblegum
“We all know how we’re gonna die, baby. We’re gonna crash and burn.”
Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
What?
“I want to know who you’re meeting in the cemetery.”
“I don’t have to tell you anything!”
The Child (1977)
Werewolf,Baby!
“What do you see?”
The Howling (1981)
“They can sense the rhythm of your blood.”
Wolfen trailer (1981)
Burn
“Be quiet and sit down! I command you!”
“Let us beware of those who seek to possess our bodies and our minds. For the academic world dehumanizes us.”
Bloodsuckers (1970)
Cease to Exist
“In each generation there is a greater or lesser interest in fantastic and marvelous events. Some expansive cultures are excited about strange unknown […] times. Others have more introverted […] and shy away from the strange. But the community […] fantastic literature has come down through the ages […] ”
Unknown
“That the world as it is or it was […] encourage the fact that it’s changing very rapidly […] the basic truth, reality about our world today is that it’s changing very rapidly […] the powers of technology have provided […]
change of the century. This is the first fact of reality […] accepting this change […] science fiction […] media realistic in a way that mainstream fiction is not.”
Unknown
Werewolf Women of the SS
“Finally, the truth about Hitler’s diabolical plans to create a race of superwomen can be told. Werewolf women of the SS.”
“We are now in total control of pure wolf.”
Grindhouse
Teenage Nosferatu Pussy
“It’s here, can’t you feel it? This whole room. This, this…everything is in color and, and I can feel the air. I can, I can see it. I can see all the molecules. I, I’m, I’m part of it! I I’m I’m, oh it’s just like, like you’re released or you’re free.”
“I can see everything in color.”
Unknown tv program on mental health (1956)
Likely discovered through this article which was published in January of 2011, two years prior to the album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor.
Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown
“Radio has changed our lives and possibly saved our lives.”
Unknown
“Today on this program you will hear the sound of our soul. We known that music is music, but when are together we got power.”
Taken from the original speech:
“Today we are together. We are unified and on one accord – but when are together we got power, and we can make decisions. Today on this program you will hear gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz. All those are just labels; we know that music is music. All of our people got a soul. Our experience determines the texture, the taste, and the sound of our soul.”
Jesse Jackson’s opening speech at Wattstax Music Festival in Watts, Los Angeles (1972)
Revelation Revolution
“What joy is there in life? Life should be – life is…should…is and should be ecstasy. Being alive should be a joy. And it’s a drag.”
The Student Movement and Counter Culture
Online video from The American Vision (McGraw-Hill social studies text book)
Chapter 27 Section 1: Students and the Counterculture
Rock and Roll (In a Black Hole)
“Glorious creates of our future, to be induced by genetic manipulation.”
The Mutations aka The Freakmaker (1974)
Behold, the Pretty Filthy Creatures
“It’s largely because of his endorsement of shocking sexual practices as a prerequisite for salvation.”
Unknown
“You know that you are […] and your god. […]”
Unknown
White Trash Freaks
“Roger, copy.”
Unknown
“But I ain’t crazy and I’m talking about them what’s going on around here!”
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
The Girl Who Loved the Monster
“Oh god!”
Unknown
“And after a while, their teeth start growing. They get hungry, and they’re facing their own suffocation. Naturally they will not kill members of their own tribe but in fear of dying they will kill the weakest one of them. And then another weak one, and another weak one, until only the one, the most superior rat, is left in the cage.”
Balkan Baroque (1999)
Marina Abramović’s How we in the Balkans kill rats via The Star (1999)
Devil’s Hole Girls and the Big Revolution
“Big revolution.”
“The chosen people will live in a hole. We went out and looked for the hole.”
Taken from the original video-
“That’s, you know, that’s what he said, that that next summer there would be this big revolution and that the chosen people would live in a hole in the middle of the desert. And then after the crimes, we went out and looked for the hole.”
Barbara Walters interview with Leslie Van Houten on ABC Evening News (1977)
Everything is Boring
“Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wide wonderful world of everything you ever wanted and so, so much more. Come! Touch, feel and experience the wide, wonderful world of all your dreams.”
“In the future everyone will get to be world famous, that’s right you’ve got 15 minutes to show us what you’ve got, then we’re going to ship you off to the garbage dump where you get to spend the rest of your life living in shame, that’s right living in shame!”
Rob Zombie voices these original recordings for the song.
Michael
“Halloween is coming. You have to get ready. We are counting on you to bring us home this year.”
“I won’t let you down.”
“I know you won’t, baby.”
“I love you, mama.”
“I love you too, Michael.”
Halloween 2 (2009)
Thanks to Ben Ecker for his assistance in locating sources for many of these samples. Thanks to Trevor and Skele10 for spotting the line “Try to remember”.
