“It’s been a rough year for him.”Įveryone here at Bloody-Disgusting sends our best wishes and admiration to Sid Haig. “I know he’s back in he hospital,” Rob Zombie added, sadly. “And I don’t know what’s going on now, too,” Zombie said, referring to the recent news that Haig was in ailing health. I go ‘Yeah! Everybody looks the same!’ and you know, it’s just at that age things can happen quick once you get sick.” Whatever he is, six-foot-four, big and burly. It was very unfortunate because a year before that when we all met and were discussing the script, or maybe it wasn’t even a year… eight months, whatever… he seemed like the same old Sid. “But it was important,” Zombie explained. He’s very important to me, the movie, it was very important to Sid.’ And they were like, okay, but I had to do something that was completely not strenuous for him.” I gotta get Captain Spaulding in this movie. ‘Please, you gotta let me bring Sid in, even if it’s just for one morning. So what I did was I rewrote the whole script for the tenth time, this time creating the character of Foxy, the half-brother, and convinced Lionsgate. “So I’m like, ‘Oh great, now one of my lead three people is not allowed to be in the movie. “He couldn’t pass it, so they would not allow him to work,” Zombie revealed. There’s all this boring stuff that has to be done.” He’d have to pass his physical, he’s have to pass the insurance company’s thing so that Lionsgate can hire him. “And then right before we started shooting, because Sid’s 80 years old he would have to be examined by a doctor. Like, what am I doing here, you know? This is the movie I planned, it was these guys,” Zombie said. “So then I would keep rewriting, less and less and less, and then it just started getting crazy. In fact that day he seemed maybe a little worse, and I was like, ‘Oh boy.’” “I was like, ‘Three more weeks! Maybe he’ll get better!’ and another week would go by and me and Sheri and Bill would go to the hospital to visit him, and he seemed the same. Everything was wishful thinking,” Zombie said. I started rewriting the movie thinking, well, maybe he can do half of it. “So I thought okay, he can’t do the whole movie. He does not look well.’ So we talked and I was there while he was doing physical therapy with his therapist, and I was talking to the doctors.” He’s laying in his hospital bed and I’m like, ‘Oh boy. Big, burly Sid was now like a skeleton,” Zombie explained. “So I thought okay, I’m going to go visit him in the hospital, see how he looks, see how he’s doing and judge the situation. Even though he told me the details of it, which I’m not going to reveal because it’s private.” So I thought okay, I didn’t know how bad his situation was. He’d been in the hospital and now he was in a physical therapy place, getting physical therapy. I didn’t think anything was wrong, but apparently he had been in the hospital the whole time,” Zombie said. “I couldn’t figure out why he would do that. “Because every time I go, ‘Oh, did Sid come in for his wardrobe fitting?’ they’re like, ‘No, he postponed it again.’ ‘Did he come in for this?’ ‘No, he had to. “But unfortunately, about three weeks before we started shooting I got a call from Sid and he said, ‘Well, I’ve been in the hospital for a while.’ And then it started to make sense,” Zombie said. That’s what we were getting ready to make.” ![]() It was the three of them through the entire movie. That was the ‘3 From Hell.’ That was the script I wrote. ![]() “ ‘3 From Hell’ was Captain Spaulding, Otis and Baby. “The reason he’s not in the movie is not a good one,” Zombie said. Rob Zombie explained the situation in a new interview with Bloody-Disgusting. Captain Spaulding only appears in a few short scenes in 3 From Hell, for very sad reasons. 3 From Hell, the third film in the trilogy that began with House of 1,000 Corpses and continued with The Devil’s Rejects, is now in theaters and it’s bringing the surviving members of the Firefly Family with it: Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis (Bill Moseley) and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig). Fans of Rob Zombie’s horror movies have a lot of reasons to celebrate this week.
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