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Sid Haig

Bill Moseley

Sheri Moon Zombie

Karen Black

Erin Daniels

Chris Hardwick

Rainn Wilson

Jennifer Jostyn

Tom Towles

Walton Goggins

Matthew McGrory

Robert Allen Mukes

Dennis Fimple

Jake McKinnon

Harrison Young

Irwin Keyes

Michael J. Pollard

Chad Bannon

William Bassett

David Reynolds

Joe Dobbs III

Judith Drake

Gregg Gibbs

Ken Johnson

Irvin Mosley Jr.

Walter Phelan

Rob Zombie

Andy Gould

Tom Richmond

Alex Poppas

Dean E. Fronk

Donald Paul Pemrick

Amanda Friedland

Andy Given

Joel Hatch

Guy Oseary

Danielle Shilling Lovett

Scott Humphrey

Kathryn Himoff

Robert K. Lambert

Sean K. Lambert

Michael Krantz

Lisa K. Sessions

Missy Parker

Erin Smith

Chris Santini

Bennett Andrews

Eric Andresen

Russell J. Smith

Maria Baker

Tom Fraser

Richard C. Miller

Suzanne Hanover

Christi K. Work

Gary J. Perticone

Patricia Gundlach

Mustaque M. Ashrafi

Justin Ditter

Oscar Alvarado

Richard Katzenson

William Nuzzo

Richard G. Almo

Jeff Silberman

Martin Astles

Virginia Landis Albertson

Anthony Aguilar

Dominique Blaskovich

Tony Hill

David Blitstein

Gregg Brazzel

George Koran

Ron Hardman

Allan Yamauchi

Laura Lee Connery

Toby Forlenza

Joe Clarke

Dominik Feller

Logan Leabo

Michael Albala

Kathy Andreasen

Eric Klosterman

Kathryn Loraine Hibbs

Edward Cass

Deborah Wuliger

Brian Robinson

Susan Cahill

Benjamin L. Cook

Buck Robinson

Joe Barnett

James P. Lay

Bruce Alan Greene

Ellis J. Barbacoff

Matthew Kern Atzenhoffer

Eddie Avila

Christopher Lucchese

Sean Patrick Crowell

Pete Asidilla

Kelly M. Beatty

Marco Black

Ty Arnold

Nancy Reid

Greg Sacks

Ben Holiday

Rick Avery

Tony Bonaventura

Robert Getty

Mary Erstad

Derek Marcil

Alisa Hensley

Cristina Patterson

Cesha Ventre

Robert Schroer

Adam Tankell

Darrin Denlinger

Brian K. Anderson

Michael Lyle

Frederick Howard

Mike Anderson

Roy Augenstein

Nicole Randall

Horror

House of 1000 Corpses

Spectacle Entertainment Group

United States of America

Rob Zombie’s comic book non-horror take on “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” 

RELEASED IN 2003 (but shot in 2000) and written/directed by Rob Zombie, "House of 1000 Corpses” is a horror/black comedy about two young couples who inadvertently visit a house of demented serial killers in backwoods Texas.

A critic summed the movie up as “a ridiculous horror comedy, but with extremely annoying villains.” It was inspired by (or rips off) “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974) and combines it with the cartoonish horror comedy of “Evil Dead II” (1987) while throwing in a little “The Funhouse” (1981).

The entire first act, including the amusing prologue that introduces Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), is very entertaining, but the over-the-top approach starts to get dull by the middle of the picture with the overdone events at the demented Firefly abode. The last act gets so cartoonish that I thought maybe the main protagonist (Erin Daniels) was experiencing a nightmare. The fantastical elements strip away any vestige of horror that was hardly there in the first two acts, which were too zany to take as serious horror. As such, I can’t see anyone older than 7 finding this movie “disturbing.” Still, the film pulsates with colorful pizazz and characters, not to mention a quality score/soundtrack.

Sheri Moon Zombie is effective in her role as Baby Firefly. I liked her voice and didn’t mind her laugh (which many criticize), but she’s a little too thin for my tastes. Daniels works pretty well as the main protagonist. But, considering Zombie’s resources (e.g. the five captive cheerleaders), the flick sorta drops the ball in the female department.

The film sat on the shelf so long because Universal feared a NC-17 rating. Lions Gate eventually picked it up, but it was cut & edited in an attempt to achieve an R-rating. The original version was 16 minutes longer.

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 29 minutes and was shot in Southern Cal (Chicken Ranch Backlot, Universal Studios; Palmdale; Santa Clarita; and Saugus).

GRADE: B-/C+

Gimly

Heavy throwback elements make up most of _House of 1000 Corpses_' runtime, from an era when Zombie was still finding his footing. It maybe leans too heavily on a nostalgia that I simply don't have, but personally I found this to be one of Zombie's weaker entries. Great song! But I don't totally love the movie. I like it. I wish that some of the parts I found more interesting, like Doctor Satan, got a bit more play, and both the acting and video quality often leave something to be desired, but still, I like it. 

_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

Filipe Manuel Neto

**Style, blood, guts and hard rock, without any decent script to back it up.**

Rob Zombie has devoted his life to music and horror movies, but so far I haven't seen a single movie of his that's really worthwhile. The director's style is that very low-budget and low-quality horror that made school in the 70s and 80s. In truth, I must say that there is some coherence here, if we consider the musical style of Zombie's projects. However, it is a film that disgusts us, and that causes more strangeness and repudiation than fear.

In this film, we follow four teenagers who accidentally stumble into a village of abnormal people and end up intrigued by a local legend about a mad doctor who cut people up, was executed and disappeared, leaving in doubt whether he had really died. Of course, they end up in an even crazier, morbid and dysfunctional house of people, who are behind an endless series of crimes.

By my standards, this movie is so bad that it doesn't even work as a comedy. There is not a scary moment, based on a strangely bizarre script, without content. The film shows the influences of slash horror, with lots of gore, blood running everywhere and bodies torn to pieces. Cannibalism, necrophilia, sadism, if we think of depravity this film will probably have some scene associated with what we think. That, on the one hand, has a vantage point: the film is gritty enough to pull it off, in an era when horror movies are so bland that even underage kids can see them.

The cast brings together a series of actors who have become famous precisely in slash cinema: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Karen Black, Tom Towles, Dennis Fimple. Each one of them did their job well, they are the right actors for this type of material, they are perfectly comfortable doing this. However, Haig and Moseley are particularly effective and work very well, stealing the audience's attention whenever they appear. Sheri Moon, an actress who has a certain relevance in the film, is however an amateur, Rob Zombie's girlfriend, who entered the film at his request. Love has these things, it makes us do crazy things. Unfortunately, and as it is routine in these films, the teenage victims of the carnage are simply talking meat that we can't care less about for a minute.

The film does some pretty competent visual effects work, with gallons of fake blood and other effects designed to make the killing realistic and "fun" enough. The sets and costumes were also very well thought out and create a decadent environment, in which rurality is distorted and transformed into the perfect environment for a Halloween massacre. That is, the film has style, it has an extremely worked and complex look, but that's about it. It does not present us with content, substance that makes the film worthwhile.

English

House of 1000 Corpses 2003 Trailer HD | Rob Zombie | Sid Haig

House of 1000 Corpses - Trailer (2002)