Former White Zombie frontman and accomplished filmmaker Rob Zombie has hired his former guitar player John 5 to score his upcoming film, "The Lords of Salem."  John 5, who has also worked with Marilyn Manson, rob Halford and David Lee Roth, as well as releasing several solo albums, "totally understands the vibe of the film and is the perfect choice to create the music," Zombie said in a recent interview.

"The Lords of Salem" will be Zombie's fifth film, and he says it will be his "bleakest" film yet, quite a statement considering his ultra-violent film "The Devil's Rejects" and two "Halloween" films.  The new film's plot revolves around the infamous Salem witch trials of the late 1600s.  According to Zombie, there were twenty people who were wrongly accused and burned at the stake, but there were also four actual witches who were put to death in secret, vowing to return to exact revenge on the town.  The film pipcks up in modern times, with the witches returning to life to make good on that promise.