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Fashioning an identity around the word for a reanimated corpse can make spontaneity tricky. Of course, when your last name is Zombie, people come to expect certain things. Luckily, Rob Zombie-the Haverhill-raised shock rocker, horror film director, comic book author, and sometime amusement park ride designer-has pretty much always lived up to his chosen moniker.Zombie was born Robert Cummings, Jr. in early 1965. His parents had spent years working in traveling carnivals, memories of which would later inspire Zombie's 2006 album Educated Horses, which is what circus types call trained animals. By the time the family settled in Haverhill so tha
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