House of 1000 Corpses
2003 Directed by Rob Zombie
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Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
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"Goddamn, motherfucker got blood all over my best clown suit."
Captain SpauldingHouse of 1000 Corpses is one of those films I really like that most people hate. I'm OK with that because I think everyone has films like that. It just appeals to me and my fucked up sense of humor.
You see the thing is if you take this film as a serious horror it sucks. It's not scary, creepy, or anything like that. Now if you look at it more as a horror comedy I think it works. I found myself laughing out loud more often then not at the ridiculous characters and the fucked up shit they would say and do. There's some pretty dark stuff…
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“It's all true. The bogeyman is real and you found him.”
-Otis B. Driftwood (Bill Moseley)Film 26 of October 2012 – Halloween Season of Horror!
At the risk of sacrificing all critical credence I feel I must begin by stating; I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE! WOOAARRGHH!
Okeydokey, now that’s out of the way, I am obliged to also say that I can indeed see how amateurish musician Rob Zombie’s directorial debut is, certainly by comparison to his follow up two years after, The Devil’s Rejects. However, despite its abundance of shortcomings, House of 1000 Corpses is one of my personal favourites in the genre, if only for Zombie’s incredible amount of ambition, and as such I’m going to provide… -
Having recently caught The Lords Of Salem I thought I'd go back and catch the only Rob Zombie film I'd not yet seen. I'd heard mixed things about House Of 1000 Corpses so I'd never been forthcoming about seeing it.
I am... a dick.
What an incredible debut feature.
Visually engaging with a high level of cinematic competency for a first time director. This takes a Texas Chainsaw/ Hills Have Eyes premise and veers left... and left again towards a bat-shit mental, backward place and while there's nothing particularly original about the film it certainly delivers stylistically.I loved it from start to finish. Rob Zombie seems to get dismissed for his desire to harken back to B-Movie realms, but…
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Such a shitty horror film. Fucking stupid. Made no sense. Not in a trippy "doesn't make sense" kind of way. More in a "what studio would accept this piece of shit script" kind of way.
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Rob Zombie is like Quentin Tarantino to me. They are both human Cuisinarts, who have been watching movies their whole life, absorbing all these influences, and then blend them all up and somehow what comes out is completely new and fresh. Zombie just puts most of the emphasis on different kinds of influences is all.
Essentially a Rob Zombie-fied remix of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, the film has its problems (mostly in the pacing and structure departments), but it absolutely has style to burn. It's worth watching for Zombie's haunted-house-style art direction, set decoration and props alone, which are simply unparalleled. This movie truly looks like Halloween (the holiday) FEELS. And in Sid Haig's Captain Spaulding, he created one…
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Ten years. It's been Ten Years since this was unleashed. Ten Years later this film still kicks ass.
For his first directorial outing, Rob Zombie surely pulls out all the cards he has available. The film is creepy, scary, funny, and laughable, but all in all it's a Great film.
For once people were finally able to see what Zombie created from his twisted fucking mind. A fucked up necrophiliac cannibal family that definitely not be forgotten any time soon.
A film that some may look at as simply "Bizarre", but I look at it as a his homage to the twisted exploitation films of the 70's. This is simply a modern exploitation film, it has all of the elements…
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Un videoclip gore con Rainn Wilson, un payaso molón y una familia de pirados.
Otra de esas películas en las que se ridiculiza al Sur de los EEUU.
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Amusingly excessive in almost all its concepts, with some amazing sequences, which show the power of Zombie.
Although we also see his shortcomings in the development of the script.
This first glimpside of the characters is great: Moseley, Haig, Black, Moon and Fimple (it´s showtime), they seem extremly insane. -
I wasn't really sure what to expect from this one. I thought I was going to hate it, but I didn't by any means. It started off rather interesting, but the film's style soon wore me down, and by the end, I lost interest. I really liked the character of Captain Spaulding, however.
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What the fuck is this?
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woaaaaa trippyyy
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Having recently caught The Lords Of Salem I thought I'd go back and catch the only Rob Zombie film I'd not yet seen. I'd heard mixed things about House Of 1000 Corpses so I'd never been forthcoming about seeing it.
I am... a dick.
What an incredible debut feature.
Visually engaging with a high level of cinematic competency for a first time director. This takes a Texas Chainsaw/ Hills Have Eyes premise and veers left... and left again towards a bat-shit mental, backward place and while there's nothing particularly original about the film it certainly delivers stylistically.I loved it from start to finish. Rob Zombie seems to get dismissed for his desire to harken back to B-Movie realms, but…
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A night of blood drenched terror begins when two morons and their girlfriends pay a visit to Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen.....
This is one hell of a nasty, dirty movie that really unsettled me and managed to get under my skin. I was all ready to give this a bad review and low score, but a day later it still unnerves me and there aren't that many films that achieve that. I think and hope that Rob Zombie was going for that effect. -
An omage to classic 70s horror that goes off the rails for the last quarter of the film. You can tell Rob Zombie has only directed music videos up until this by some of the editing choices he makes, but its not a negative in my view.
The DVD has some of the BEST 'interactive' menus that I have ever had the pleasure of letting run for 10+ minutes just to see how long they would go.
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You can tell by the opening scene how much originality Rob Zombie brings to Hollywood.The fast cuts, the music, the color pallet.. .it’s all new and positive and gives an extremely ominous and unpleasant tone. But HO1000C does not play out to completion.
10 years ago, the horror genre was lacking innovation and usually fell back on the consistency of gore. American horror films usually rely on the “slasher” premise, one killer running around killing one person at a time until the last one or two characters are left alive and figure out a way to escape. I would argue Rob’s entry of House of 1000 Corpses in 2003 was the turning point of the horror genre in Hollywood.
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