Let’s be clear:  I don’t think Rob Zombie is a very good director.  In fact, his movies on one level can be seem to be primarily vehicles for employing his wife, Sherri Moon Zombie; which I have nothing against because such nepotism in Hollywood–or anywhere else for that matter–isn’t exactly unusual.

Judd Apatow gives his significant other roles in his movies consistently (his daughters have also boarded the gravy train), as does Stuart Gordon.

The difference is that both Apatow and Gordon can direct, though the whinefest that is “This Is 40”  makes me want to reconsider Apatow.

After Zombie cut his teeth on “The House of 1000 Corpses,” “The Devil’s Rejects,” and two Halloween films he moved on to his latest project, “The Lords of Salem.” (I need to see ‘Rejects.’  That’s supposed to be all sorts of awesome).

The trailer is less any sort of narrative than a bunch of odd, disjointed images linked by the apartment building where the action seems to take place.  If that’s what the director was going for, then perhaps I could see it, but for some reason I doubt it.