Once Lords gets moving, Zombie's primary sources start coming to the fore: The Shining and Rosemary's Baby... Zombie is an incurable cinephile, which no doubt explains the richness of his cinema compared to that of his "peers." He thinks in images. The halls of the residential hotel, of course, are a Shining riff, but more than this, The Lords continually plays with a motif of symmetry versus asymmetry, uniformity versus freedom.
Michael Sicinski
April 1, 2013