10 Horror Musicals You Need To See

Loathed by people who’ve never seen it, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto is Rob Zombie at his most deranged, a 77 minute animated feature about a washed-up luchador whose encounters with monsters, Nazis and a horny robot are set to a soundtrack to die for.

Roping in several actors from his previous movies (Ken Foree, Dee Wallace, Danny Trejo etc), Zombie sets the action in a cartoon world called Monsterland, where the marriage of Dr Satan (Paul Giamatti) to trash-mouthed stripper Velvet Von Black (Rosario Dawson) will allow him to take over the world….somehow. The only people who can stop him are wrestler turned exploitation filmmaker El Superbeasto (Tom Papa), his secret agent sister Susi-X (Sheri Moon Zombie) and her sidekick Murray The Robot (Brian Posehn).

This is the kind of movie where a one-eyed heroine (carrying Hitler’s disembodied head in a jar – don’t ask) in a figure-hugging jumpsuit says, “Hey man, what’s a girl gotta do to get a theme song around here?” and is immediately serenaded by a song that includes the lyrics “Watching you grow from a little child/ To the girl with the ass that drives them wild.” Andrew Lloyd Webber it ain't, but if you’re in the mood for something outrageous, it’s just the ticket.