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Rob Zombie's nightmare globe realized on picture show
In my opinion, Business firm of 1000 Corpses is a fan motion-picture show. Fans of both the horror genre and Rob Zombie are likely to love it. Though I practise not count myself a fan of either, I exercise like both at times, and I am quite familiar with both. Those familiar with Rob Zombie are likely to be the only ones who completely 'get' this clever little motion picture - affectionate its depraved sense of humor and nihilism. Zombie'south themes are fairly consistent - evil (without the usual religious connotations and clichés), murder, sexual activity, insanity, and stereotype "hillbillies". Zombie's earth is not a place for people who are terribly concerned with reality, simply, for Zombie himself, information technology seems to supply endless muse for a prolific and interesting commercial creativity.
Ii couples traveling beyond land and working on a book on baroque roadside attractions stumble across a filling station / theme park run by a vaguely evil clown with a bad attitude - Captain Spaulding. Spaulding teaches them of a few local legends, including a mad surgeon who worked in a local insane asylum and came to exist known as Dr. Satan for the grotesque surgical procedures he practical to mental patients in hugger-mugger. They pick up a pretty blonde hitch-hiker on their way to see the tree where Dr Satan was hung, and run into some machine problems, so the hitch-hiker invites them to her family unit house. The family, manifestly headed past the phenomenally weird Karen Black, makes The Addams family expect like the Brady Agglomeration.
My narrative has described the first twenty minutes or so of the film, and at this point the film, much like RZ's songs, is so campy that it seems a straightforward horror comedy. However, once our protagonists are in "the firm", the plot takes a incomparably more than sinister spin, and never lets upwards from that point forrad.
This movie successfully and entertainingly portrays all of RZ'due south themes in virtually the same proportions equally his music. Of them all, sex is the least explored, and I, for one, am thankful for that. The film besides walks a delicate line betwixt Hannibal Lector grotesque fine art realism and supernatural forces. For example, at 1 betoken, one of the bad guys turns on a cassette player with depression batteries so that the voice recorded on information technology sounds actress-satanic.
If you have problems with blood and other bodily fluids, and utterly repulsive surgically induced variations on the human body, you might want to avert this picture show. If you don't have whatsoever great objections to standard hardcore horror imagery, or if you like it, you might want to see this. It is masterfully visualized and does a much amend job of making horror into art than the standard Hollywood horror fair. This is Rob Zombie's art, and he does information technology much better than nigh. This first major effort in flick bodes well for his future use of the medium, and I will look forrad to his next.
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Is a horror fan entitled to have a 2nd opinion?
I already had a user comment for "House of a i.000 Corpses" submitted here on this site, dated over a year ago and…um…non very praising. In fact, my beginning viewing of this film was and so disappointing that I excessively discouraged other people here to see it. Rather than to simply ignore the old annotate and pretend I never bashed information technology, I wish to write a new – more positive – review, if it were merely to convince other people (who also disliked at first) to give it a 2d modify. Several factors (similar the praising reviews on "The Devil'due south Rejects"-sequel and conversations with fellow horror fans) nearly forced me to re-watch "House of a ane.000 Corpses" and I'k glad I did. This truly is a motion-picture show that requires multiple viewing before one tin properly judge information technology. Rob Zombie'south style is oftentimes innovating and and so overwhelming that it might look overly hectic at commencement but, in reality, his dedication towards obscurity and his cognition on classic movie theater is one of the best things that could ever happen to the horror genre. And that is something y'all (or at least I) take to discover with repeated viewings
The ability of this motion picture lies in the fact that the screenplay covers all kind of successful horror premises. Serial killers, mad doctors, a family of crazies, deranged clowns, devil-worshipers….you name the blazon of terror and "House of a ane.000 Corpses" features it! This moving-picture show is a pocket-sized revival of the entire horror genre all by itself. No extended and tedious intros or pointless ruby herrings in this film, "House…" is straightforward and surefooted sickness from start to finish and you're given almost no time to exhale. Some of the sequences in this film are so damn close to brilliant that I tin't perhaps figure out why I didn't love them correct away!! The execution-scene guided by the moody "I Call back Yous"-vocal, for example, is amazingly atmospheric and quite unsettling. Although Rob Zombie's directing skills are still open for improvement (the abrupt climax, overly rough editing), his debut is a staggering gorefest that every horror fan has to feel…repeatedly! Bring on the sequel…I'm ready at present!!
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A gritty, gory mess
If there'south one thing modern cinema is criticised for, it's that it'due south fabricated past executives and corporations rather than by fans of the genre itself. However, that cannot be said for the delightfully-titled 'House of 1000 Corpses.' It'south made by the (every bit delightfully-named) Rob Zombie, who, despite being better known at the time as a musician, is definitely a fan of the horror genre.
But, without even going into who made information technology, perhaps it's the title that should requite y'all all the information you need to know equally to whether or non you'll similar this moving-picture show. If y'all're expecting anything deep and meaningful then you're going to turn information technology off inside minutes. What you take is a pretty standard 'slasher' flick (okay, and so it probably bears more in mutual with 'Texas Chainsaw' types films than 'Scream,' just at that place are definitely 'slasher' elements thrown in in that location), but presented with a sense of art. Or, if you're feeling a footling harsher, yous could replace the word 'art' with 'bits-thrown-in-that-look-like- they're-taken-right-out-of-an-MTV-music-video.' Rob Zombie tries to do something different with the way the film is shot. It's got a lot of cutaway films and stylishly-filmed segments which break up the narrative. Some may find those interesting and unlike, others may notice that they distract from the narrative – it'due south actually a question of taste, but you can see his music video influence shining through.
But, yous probably don't picket a picture chosen 'Business firm of 1000 Corpses' for its artistic integrity – y'all want the gore. And it doesn't disappoint on that one. It'southward packed total of disgusting characters and imagery – from grotesque mutants to gorgeous babes (who are every bit grotesque when it comes to their tendency to murder people at the drib of a hat – Sheri Moon Zombie, I'g looking at you!).
Overall, 'House of yard Corpses' isn't an original story, but it'southward done differently enough and with the required levels of gore that will satisfy anyone who wants to watch a motion-picture show entitled so. It does feel a petty 'raw' here and there. Sometimes I felt that was nearly intentional, other times I wondered whether Rob Zombie was letting his visions get a little too convoluted. However, he definitely proves that he tin do more than sing (assuming you lot hold with that in the first place!) and, seeing as he'south a fan of the genre, hopefully this volition be a proficient stepping stone to launch what might be a promising horror career.
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If you've always dreamed of being a filmmaker, practise non watch this disaster.
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This picture if definitive proof that life is not fair. At that place are probably thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people who would sell their firstborn child to be able to brand a motion picture with the budget and resource that went into House of m Corpses. They'll never get that chance. Rob Zombie did, non because he demonstrated whatsoever ability or skill as a filmmaker, but because he was a rock star. And what'south really unfair is that Zombie took this opportunity and created one of the worst and least scary cinematic goulashes y'all'll e'er meet.
There'due south literally not much more of a plot to this thing than "4 kids go lost in the backwoods and are brutalized by a family unit of weirdos". It's like a script wasn't actually written, but instead someone simply took dictation as Zombie paced back and forth one dark, rambling abroad about how this happens and so that happens and then this other thing happens. You could take the last xl minutes or so of this film, randomly switch around the scenes and information technology would brand about equally much sense.
This moving-picture show is also a ending visually. Zombie can't go more a minute of two without indulging in some cheap effect or digression. It looks like a normal movie, but then at that place'due south some hand held video, and then everything'southward shot with 16 millimeter pic, then the picture is reversed to a negative epitome, and then in that location'south a clip of a TV broadcast, then in that location's a clip from a old horror movie, then there's some stuff you can barely make out and it goes on and on and on similar that. Accept you lot ever encountered a little kid trying way too hard to get and keep your attention? Imagine that kid having ADHD and injecting caffeine all night and y'all'll take some idea of what House of chiliad Corpses looks like.
I'm not even going to become into how the movie is clearly styled later on films like The Hills Have Eyes (original, not the sucky remake) just then takes off on this Lovecraftian tangent where it appears every bit though Zombie forgot what kind of film he was making. Imagine watching The Verdict and finding out almost 8 minutes of My Cousin Vinny has been spliced into information technology at the finish.
The acting in this mess is too almost uniformly terrible. Except for Sid Haig, every other person in the bandage could have walked around conveying signs saying "I am an actor" and information technology wouldn't accept made their performances whatever less conceivable or involving. Yous can tell that the actors were told to exercise everything as "campy" every bit possible, but instead of "campy" they ended up with "crappy". Haig is the only one who makes his depraved beast of a character even vaguely interesting, and that's because Haig'south Captain Spaulding doesn't spend every single moment on screen desperately trying to convince the audience how evil and provocative he is.
Virtually all of the things incorrect with this film could be forgiven, though, if it was really frightening or disturbing. Merely information technology'southward non. Oh sure, someone with a weak tum may find some of it unsettling…but someone with a weak stomach isn't watching a movie titled "Business firm of 1000 Corpses". None of the violence, none of the perversity, none of the gore has any affect at all. That's considering none of it is connected to annihilation real. At that place's no real emotion and no existent dilemmas, so there's nothing real to fear. This moving-picture show is like that loftier schoolhouse kid who thinks he's "edgy" because he dresses up like a goth vampire and drinks Clamato, pretending it'due south bodily claret.
Equally dispiritingly bad as this movie is, Zombie got to make a sequel to it. That's the sort of unfairness that drives people to contemplate suicide. In fairness to Zombie, however, The Devil's Rejects is a much more than professionally competent product. It still sucks difficult, but perchance if he gets the chance to brand ii or three hundred more movies, he might finally come up with something halfway decent.
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A Rob Zombie film.
Business firm of one,000 Corpses (2003) marks the directorial debut of Trash/Industrial Artist Musician Rob Zombie. This film was sitting on the shelf for a couple of years before Lion'due south Gate released it theatrically. A homage of sorts to Zombie's favorite genre, southern fried horror. Throw in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, add together a lilliputian Eaten Alive and a dash of FunHouse and you'll get the flavor of this moving picture.
Iv twenty somethings are riding along the dorsum southern roads when they come up across a roadside carnival run by an eccentric clown named Captain Spaulding. He gives them a personnel bout of his fun firm of horrors and tells them the tale of a local ghoul named Dr. Satan. Inspired by phantasmagorical tale of the skillful doctor, they determine to search for his grave. Captain Spaulding draws them a map and gives them directions to an area where the Doctor allegedly died. On the route, they run across a pretty blond hitch-hiker who also knows about the legend of Doctor Satan...and a niggling more than! What happens adjacent? You'll take to visit Firm of 1,000 Corpses!
A great film that does what it sets out to do. I'yard then glad to run across old school grind business firm horror is back in the mainstream. A sequel is out and it'due south fifty-fifty better! I have to strongly recommend this movie. You won't regret it!
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Worth the wait
Now, let's not go carried away here: is this the best horror flick ever? Non that I've seen. Does information technology sometimes trip over the fine line between scares and laughs? Sure. Volition it remind people of certain other movies? Probably. Only bottom line, is this movie a smash? Absolutely.
Writer/director Rob Zombie's music has always had a kind of comic book/horror film sensibility which he translates into his screen project, a tribute to the pioneering take-no-prisoners classics of the 1970'due south similar "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," in fact a prominent role is played by Bill Moseley of "TCM Two." We're informed at the outset that information technology's Halloween Eve 1977 in some one-horse town in an unspecified region of the state (which of course allows each player to use any accent he or she likes, even inside the same household). The principal attraction of this town seems to be a "horror museum" run past a Captain Spaulding (who bears no resemblance to Groucho Marx) played by veteran B-movie stalwart Sid Haig, whom I recall from way the hell back in "Busting" as the big menacing bald guy. He'southward still large and bald simply not then much menacing as jovially deranged with undercurrents of menace (and lots of brand-up). Afterwards a delightfully overwritten robbery sequence involving a couple of local yokels, 4 fresh-faced immature people with one foot in the grave prove up at the museum, setting in motion a series of unpleasant events.
No particular reason to dwell on the plot, specially if you've seen "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and/or it's sequels. Information technology's the tried-and-true damsels (and their boyfriends) in distress. (We even get a pack of cheerleaders thrown in as a bonus. Apparently people have been going missing in this town simply back in the Seventies the term "serial killer" was waiting to be invented, and then no squads of Feds and profilers have arrived.) For movies like this to piece of work, the actors have to exist on the same page in tone; bated from Haig and Moseley I barely knew anyone except Walt Goggins from TV's "The Shield" and of course Karen Black, whose functioning is the just one that doesn't quite click. It'south similar she'due south playing a whack job where the others are just being whack jobs. (Merely if they ever wanted to remake "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane," in that location's your girl!) In terms of direction, Zombie takes a kind of kitchen-sink approach; some of it reminded me of Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" and others of that ilk, with the eye-blink jumping to and from videotape, color variations, flashback and/or fantasy, etc. Some of the editing'south a piffling likewise jumbled in the mod trend of trying to obscure what'southward happening, although not to the "Darkness Falls" degree of complete chaos. (I'g old-fashioned, I still recollect the best way to scare yous with something in a moving picture is simply train the camera on it so you can see it coming at you lot with no way to escape.) Simply Mr. Zombie has a nice feel for where to put the camera and how to move a scene along. Some of his sequences have a kind of sinister poetry to them, like when the two deputies become checking out the homestead from hell, the kind of setup we've seen in how many shlock items (I but saw ane in a recent victim of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew) only in this instance Zombie replaces all audio with a Slim Whitman melody (nosotros think how Whitman's voice was enough to slay large-brained Martians a while dorsum) and holds the final crane shot an audaciously long time. Then once the bury gets lowered into the water towards the stop, "Firm" kicks into overdrive and from then on if there's nothing in the moving-picture show that spooks yous, then perhaps you're unspookable. I know a lot of that imagery will be lingering with me for a while, such as Fish Boy.....
Usually I try to ignore a movie'southward external circumstances and go by what'due south on the screen in front of me but in this instance it's pointless to pretend this movie has not been in limbo for three years due to it's supposedly trigger-happy content. I've read information technology had to be cut to make the R rating, although I really can't run into how an NC-17 would've hurt it; people will go see it partly because it's by Rob Zombie and it'southward said to exist gory and for those put off past such factors, an R rating won't make them less put off. "Hey, beloved, it'south an R now--forget the bodyguard, let's bring the kids!" I've besides read Zombie was satisfied with the released version. As released, there's actually nix there y'all haven't seen before in some form or other; some gore fans may even experience let down, but of course there's always the DVD. I think that had it been released as made three years agone without all the hype, with the chance to "sneak up on" us, it would've been even more than effective. But maybe that's what the studio feared? Well, Mr. Movie Mogul, if y'all're going to commission the guy from White Zombie to practise a horror movie, what exactly do you anticipate as a result? Please either defecate or get off the toilet....
Hard to nail downwards a favorite moment with this one, only it's hard to resist picking the youngsters getting abused in their bunny suits. Information technology's visually striking, it'south unusual, information technology's blackly funny and also somewhat unsettling the more you retrieve about information technology. When we watch a horror motion-picture show, what exactly are we anticipating? Is the i-sided nature of the conflict (overwhelming villain, hapless or helpless victim) part of the appeal for us? Do we "identify with" the chaser or the chasee? Should we experience a trivial ashamed of ourselves afterwards? Or, every bit Captain Spaulding put information technology, are these just a bunch of jack-donkey questions?
Bully soundtrack, I may have to buy it....
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Rob Zombie's Artistic piece of garbage
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House of 1000 Corpses has Rob Zombie written all over it. This wasn't created with viewers in mind, or how the audience would similar it only rather he created it (both writer, manager and composer) equally his ain beloved child of his own twisted, demented ideas. I hateful the story is pretty stereotypical ripping off ideas from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and a dozen other horror films. The sadistic family unit from Granddad, to Mama, to Babe is a fun idea but then Zombie mixes it with some sort of stylized flashback, acid trip that makes the entire film annoying and unwatchable. I did sentry the whole thing only I as well fast forwarded through most of it and watched it that way and found it far more amusing. Fortunately it's short, and I was surprised that it wasn't as gory as I expected. I heard many people rave about the gore and horrendous decease scenes and I mean it was pretty typical horror. I've certainly seen far worse as of late with Hostile, The Saw series and then on.
Rainn Wilson, Chris Hardwick, Erin Daniels, and Jennifer Jostyn play the iv unsuspecting young people driving across the country writing a book about out of the way tourist attractions when they come across Captain Spaulding's store. The 4 of them exercise a decent task of being the scream teens of the story, getting picked off 1 by 1 and leaving usa to guess who is side by side and how they will die although I'm still not sure how come of them died it was washed in such a disruptive music video way. The iv of them all do a relatively similar job with none of the standing out particularly. They all distinct personalities and do that part of information technology well. You don't really, truly go attached to any of them so you don't particularly care whether they dice or not. Veteran thespian Sid Haig plays one of my favorite characters in the film (yes I do have a favorite) Captain Spaulding. He'due south kind of the forepart man for the family because he actually runs a legitimate business organisation without murdering every unmarried person that walks through the door. He's funny, sarcastic, and sadistic all at once and he definitely adds some spice to the film. Beak Moseley plays Otis Driftwood, the almost sadistic killer, and kind of leader of them all. He is appropriately deviant, and completely messed and his brand-upwardly and costume fits nicely. The idea of the grapheme is pretty good and he does it well. Sheri Moon takes her performance over the top and does a dandy job as Baby Firefly. She looks completely normal, fifty-fifty sexy to the average guy simply she every bit crazy and twisted every bit the rest of them always desperately wanting to kill something. Karen Blackness is Mother Firefly and she too is appropriately twisted and disturbing. Her and Baby Firefly play off each other well and are convincingly mother and daughter because of their completely twisted personalities. Matthew McGrory is the mute, deformed Tiny Firefly. Considering the character has nothing to say and footling to really exercise he does an alright task. I would hope that they would do more with a graphic symbol they barely explain but they don't. He'due south just kind of there. Dennis Fimple, and Robert Allen Mukes play the final two members of the family merely they too become the least screen time. Fimple as Grandpa Firefly has some funny lines but never does much of anything. One character entered the picture show and I thought information technology might alter the unabridged premise and I was excited. He looks crude, tough as nails, fix to have on the Firefly family and that was Sheriff Drake Huston played by William Bassett. Brought in by one of the daughter'southward fathers he immediately launches an investigation. Except he sends other people to practice the investigating and we never see him once again. He looked and so great and tired and weathered and experienced...he was like Dr. Loomis of Halloween, fix to chase downwardly these murderers and he was completely not used at all. What a disappointment!!
So the cast was a lot of potential to at the very least exist a typical, fun niggling teenage slasher flick where the kids try to escape just it wasn't. The story was far more complex than it needed to exist. It was all about an aging murderer who used to be a physician in a mental facility and was trying to make a race of super humans by operating on mentally disturbed patients and at present they all reside nether ground, nether the house hence "Firm of thousand Corpses." Impaired!! Pointless, stupid, and by the time this all unravels you don't care in the least. Rob Zombie merely wanted to slap something together for himself with no thought to audiences or whether it was worthwhile and he wasted some skilful acting talent and even a decent idea for a good horror film by stylizing it with the ridiculous flashbacks, dream sequences and pointless cut ins done in different video styles like grainy, color drained, and so on. I will see the sequel "The Devil's Rejects" because I'one thousand a horror fanatic and I want to come across if he managed to improve it because it did better than the original i at the box office but fifty-fifty still... I suppose a lot people did enjoy it although with such a modest budget it's non hard to do well in the theater. So if you like completely twisted, sadistic garbage similar Zombie's music and films then you'll probably say I'grand crazy but if yous like a GOOD, WELL DONE, Thought OUT horror picture then you'll agree with me and say this one IS a corpse. three/10
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Disturbing, Different, Bizarre, Unique and Flat Out Scary! Hats Off To Rob Zombie!
Firm Of grand Corpses (2003)
This film was awesome! To tell you, I have never, ever seen anything on the big screen quite like this before. Firm of 1000 Corpses is a throwback to old school horror movies such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but succeeds much more. It is most iv friends who are driving cross country and are returning home after a long trip. Late on Halloween eve, they stop past a sleazy gas station and next to information technology is "The Museum Of Monsters And Madmen", owned by Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig). Interested and curious, they check it out and end upwards riding a "murder ride" inside the museum, learning a bit more about a local legend, Dr. Satan. They then head for the road and pick up a foreign hitchiker, Babe (Sheri Moon). Their car so breaks down and Baby takes them to her house, non far upward the road. They and then are pulled into a world of torture and violence, every bit they are captured past a family of insane lunatics who want them expressionless.
I have to say, congrats to Mr. Zombie! He has created a horror masterpiece that may get a historical landmark in picture history such every bit others have done earlier. Zombie's directing debut is wonderful, and had some uniqe and unusual touches to brand the moving-picture show that much more than baroque and spooky, such as the split screen effect, I mean I haven't seen that used since the movie Carrie! The film as well had strange flashbacks and flashforwards. I recommend this flick to any horror fan! Yous won't be disappointed! I'm surprised it took 3 years to go a company to buy this pic! I tin't believe Universal turned it downward! I give Business firm of 1000 Corpses a 10/10.
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Tin nosotros get a hell yeah? I thought so...
Business firm of chiliad Corpses was well worth the wait. People were understandably a piddling sceptical of Rob Zombie's debut as a director, merely knowing myself that the man is a scholar of the modern horror movie and a raving fanboy himself, I had high expectations of Firm. I was not disappointed. From the demented and hilarious opening sequence through to the surreal and terrifying ending, Zombie's first foray into direction and writing gives the earth of cinema a much needed boot in the pants.
Is it gory? Well, yes, it is, but it's never gory in an absolutely horrific fashion. What'due south such a pleasant surprise is that the picture, despite being a homage to the bleak and nihilistic 70s horror boom, is full of well-painted, full-bodied characters and rich dark humour. House of 1000 Corpses is an accented blast to watch, never wallowing in darkness and only really becoming a terror-ride toward the very stop, significant it'due south a movie that while not for all the family could well put a smile on at least some of their faces.
The movies combination of gore-soaked serial-killer horror, Tim Burtonesque visuals and Evil Dead'due south humor is a fresh turn from a genre currently stuck largely in bleak apartment buildings full of long-faced pouty heroines and even longer-faced pouty ghouls. Yes it isn't that tense, but information technology'due south wickedly funny, wonderfully psychedelic and brimming full of demented ready-pieces. To be honest, I'd near forgot what it was like to be entertained past horror before I watched this.
A lot of people love to dissect this movie and venerate information technology's influences, but the bottom line is unlike Kill Bill which relied on you lot existence every bit nerdy as Tarantino to savour it, Zombie's movie is fun whether or non you've seen the movies he doffs his threadbare circus hat to. It's a warped, psychedelic delve into mania that'll make you express joy out loud and keep you lot on the edge of your seat. Watch information technology. Sentinel it ASAP.
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Anyone Who Hated This Movie Should Not Be Watching Horror Films
You similar horror movies? Have you seen the original 1974 "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"? If not, practice yourself a favor and go sentinel it, and then come back and treat yourself to Rob Zombies wonderful homage "House of 1000 Corpses". The motion picture is all homage and humor, just it would be wrong to telephone call information technology parody. The film is really lovingly done.
At present mind y'all, this isn't in the aforementioned class as movies like "Apocalypse Now" and "Citizen Kane". It is, yet, notwithstanding beautiful. The style is almost in overkill and is where about of the entertainment is derived from. The story is secondary. Similar many a horror movie, it's about a grouping of young people who go where they shouldn't and p*ss-off (I can't believe I had to censor this word) some creepy hicks. In this case they are looking for Doctor Satan, a local fable who might just exist existent. From there information technology follows the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" formula pretty closely, but far better than any of that films sequels ever did. The moving picture is very inventive and keeps from being very boring or very predictable. I was able to guess at a few things, simply then I watch a lot of horror films.
A real stand out is the utilise of colour. The photography is surprisingly adept for a horror effort. Another big reason to sentinel is Sid Haig who acted in many 70s classic exploitation efforts. The guy has always been fun to scout and is really funny hither.
After this I'one thousand actually looking forward to Zombies'due south "The Devil'southward Rejects"
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Deeply Sick Characteristic Derivative of 70s Horror.
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In a nod to 70s movies similar THE HILLS Take Optics and THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE (and others), Business firm OF 1000 CORPSES, while being the farthest away from even a decent slasher movie, does manage to weaken the stomach with its singularly twisted images of an insane family of cannibals who casualty on a quartet of young twenty-somethings who happen to come within their reach and become fodder for their truly sick amusement. Were it not for Karen Black, one wouldn't be certain these are actually actors playing their roles as if they were those barbarian, mentally defective sadistic killers, and while clearly Rob Zombie knows enough of movies to throw in a multifariousness of references to Marx brothers movies also equally slasher classics, the very inhuman nature of the movie will exist and so forbidding that just hardcore lovers of this sort of flick will see information technology.
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Zombie tries to be Oliver Rock redoing Texas Chainsaw Massacre
And the results, from my perspective, are mixed. Many of the reviews on this site are glowing for the fun Zombie had with the gore, the violence, the chaos. As a throwback to the Texans Chainsaw movies, I think it works partly well, with not an ounce of sympathy thrown to either heroes or villains (after a while the term "villain" doesn't give these characters justice). Only what made me dislike the movie was the staggering, constant use of editing in clips from other movies, other sounds, which after the first ten to fifteen minutes became a large distraction. The level of terror is recognized, yet Zombie thinks in his writing and directorial debut, that he has to do EVERYTHING all at once, over and over, to get the audiences attention; information technology'due south understandable why Universal thought his picture show would become an NC-17. For the nigh hardcore and die-hard fans of horror flicks and Rob Zombie fans, it's a treat I suppose, but for someone like I, who has seen many horror films and listened to Zombie'southward music, it'due south a little too much (the expectation levels from scene-to-scene are numbingly painful at times). C-
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Obvious love alphabetic character to old school horror
This flick is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If you've seen that, y'all've seen this. I don't need to explain the plot; that's all you demand to know. It's TTCM with bizarre attempts at stylization. The victims are featureless twats, except for Rainn Wilson, who plays a lovable nerd. Other than him, the real stars are the family unit and Sid Haig equally Helm Spaulding, but the 2 psycho women are both horribly annoying. It does break abroad from the bones formula for the third human action of the film, but I can't say it was for the movies do good.
The stylization is the worst part of information technology; randomly cutting to 16mm picture clips, random colored lighting that change in between shots, and a bunch of flashing quick cuts. If your over the age of xvi, and/or are a seasoned horror fan, this movie is much more probable to give you a headache rather than scare you.
Pros- Sid Haig, nostalgic premise, and some decent gore
Cons- awful attempts at stylization, annoying characters, a twist that makes the movie worse.
If you're gonna watch it; you're gonna watch it. Only don't expect anything too much.
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"Information technology's true....the boogeyman is real, and you've found him.
I love that line! I remember hearing that line in a cool trailer I saw while watching "Urban Legend ii". Obviously, this was a style better movie!!! Besides "Scream," and "Funny Games," this is the best horror film in the by 15 years!!! We wanted claret, and we got it!!! Whoa, that would take been some other neat line in this "uber celebration of depravity" every bit those lame Universal execs so succinctly chosen it. This moving-picture show was definitely worth the wait!!!
Kickoff off, the directing: Rob Zombie gave this picture a unique visual manner I had never seen in a film before. It was well fabricated and very well edited. I loved the split-screens, filters, stock footage, utilise of colour, and that infamous irksome motion shot (I loved that scene!). Although he borrowed a petty from "Natural Born Killers," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Terminal House on the Left," what corking horror movie doesn't nowadays? Seriously!! So Mr. Zombie brought something new to the table, and volition hopefully make a keen contribution to horror (he has already in my opinion).
Secondly, the acting: Sid Haig and Bill Moseley totally stole the show!! They made horrifying, creepy, and relentless screen sickos, and gave me hope for the screen villain again (as opposed to lame efforts by thugs in cheap masks). Mrs. Zombie, or Sheri Moon, was totally insane as well every bit hot! Also, genre veterans Karen Black, Micheal J. Pollard, and Irwin Keyes brought creepiness to their insane roles! Tom Towles was also skilful in a skilful guy function! The late Dennis Fimple was hilarious equally Grandfather Hugo! Newcomers Matthew McGrory and Robert Mukes were disturbing in their roles as Tiny and Rufus. As for the "victims," Chris Hardwick'south Jerry was the simply 1 I reasonably liked. The other three made lame efforts at acting, and demand lessons from Marilyn Burns, and the cast of "The Hills Accept Eyes"!! So information technology was hard to root for them, which was another twisted feat that Zombie achieved. I actually rooted for the villains!!!!
Thirdly, the music: I loved the music!! It fit well with the temper of the moving-picture show! I ain the soundtrack, and I loved it! My favorite song was the title theme, of class! I was expecting songs from Black Sabbath, The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Blue Oyster Cult, and other "creepy" bands, but oh well. I was satisfied. I also loved the moving-picture show's score.
Lastly, the atmosphere at the theater I was at: Information technology was totally insane!!! People were screaming, jumping, laughing, walking out, and commenting loudly on how awesome it was!!! I was surprised at that place was such a packed audience, and it was barnone the best theater-going experience I had ever had!!!
Overall, this motion-picture show is a creepy, intense, amazing, agonizing, and darkly funny attack on the senses!!! I definitely tin't look to run into information technology over again in the theater and to buy the DVD! Finally, a real horror picture with balls the size of Canada has hitting the masses!!! This gives me keen hope for the new wave of horror: the 70's throwback horror motion picture!! There'due south plenty this year with "Irreversible," "Cabin Fever," "Wrong Turn," "Jeepers Creepers two," "Highwayman," and the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake!!! Out of V Stars: FIVE STARS!!!!! See this movie!! All Rob Zombie fans, metal music fans, horror fans, or people who want to see a hardcore horror film should go out and see this movie!! If you like it, you're awesome!! If you don't, I gauge you're not ready for hardcore horror.
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A revival of true horror
Its lamentable that a film as wonderfully made as this is then grossly misunderstood.
Let me say this right off that bat. If you're idea of a horror motion picture is I know What You lot Did Last Summer and you consider Scream and The Exorcist to be the almost shocking films always made, this is not a film for yous. If you lot havent seen I Spit on Your Grave, Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead or Last House on the Left, this is non a motion picture for you. If you've never listened to "Living Expressionless Girl" or "Superbeast" this is non a motion picture for you.
At present having said that, this is a flick for me. It is a pic for truthful horror fans, the kind that stay up and watch Dawn of the Dead and The Beyond, who know who Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento and George Romero are. This is a film that was meant to be seen by people like this and will just exist enjoyed by people similar this. This is non exactly mainstream stuff here. Simply a small percentage of people enjoy this stuff, and for those people, this film is a truthful rivival of classic exploitive horror.
Rob Zombie has created a homage to 1970'south exploitation/horror films, and he has been extremly successful in achieving that goal. The flick borrows largely from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last Business firm on the Left, with his ain little bits of original demential thrown in and an assortment of other horror picture references. The motion-picture show tells the tale of four teenagers who are terrorized and tortured by a bizarre southern family unit living in a remote farmhouse in 1977. The motion-picture show uses all sorts of camera tricks--negative colouring, split-screens and seemingly random inserts of grainy snuff-like footage of diverse South&M and gore images; the off-the-wall effect is similar to what Oliver Stone did in Natural Born Killers. The motion picture is not about plot, or about characters. Its purpose is to stupor and disturb, to serve no other function than to entertain through exploitation and icky and bizarre violence. Merely equally you think the limits of weirdness are approaching, Zombie takes the moving picture a step farther, and earlier long you surrender yourself to the mercy of the film and merely have things for what they are. The flick has the feeling of an out of command freight train beingness piloted by a madman and the climax of the motion-picture show is truly bizarre. The reviewers who wrote the moving picture off as overly-sadistic with little in the means of character evolution, plot or suspence have come to see a different kind of film, possibly more at home with titles like The 6th Sense or Silence of the Lambs. The have no busineness debasing a peachy film like this.
Rob Zombie has created a film that is both a homage and derivative at the same time; nearly things in the film have been washed before, in one shape or another, and the level of gore is a fraction of what was intended, due to its shameful R-rating. To run into the inevitable Unrated Directors Cut on video is going to be a truthful horror experience.
But this motion-picture show is something has hasnt been seen in decades and it has been made with the utmost care that but a truthful horror fan could provide. It is a film fabricated by horror fans for horror fans, a true labor of love past Mr. Zombie, despite some flaws. If you arent sitting the theater going "hey, theres Bill Mosely from TCM ii!" or "hey, that shot is a homage to the cover of Evil Expressionless!" or "hey, he wears peoples skin similar Leatherface!" then you probably arent meant to exist seeing this film. Simply for those who are, the picture show is a true gem and a rarity; it is a kind of pic that hasnt been seen on the screens in over twenty years and probably wont be for some other twenty years. Get out there and bask this rare feel while you lot still tin can.
An instant cult-hitting.
Form: A
For truthful horror fans merely. Everyone else only wont get it.
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fascinating mess of craziness
Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) is a foul-mouthed clown owner of the "Museum of Monsters and Madmen" and "Fried Chicken and Gasoline". On October xxx, 1977, Spaulding shoots a agglomeration of holdup guys. Jerry Goldsmith (Chris Hardwick), Beak Hudley (Rainn Wilson), Mary Knowles (Jennifer Jostyn), and Denise Willis (Erin Daniels) are traveling the land investigating weirdness. Spaulding shows the group his roadside show and tells them virtually Dr. Satan. They go in search of the hanging tree where they hanged Dr. Satan. They choice up hitchhiker Infant (Sheri Moon Zombie). Their tires go popped and they end up with Infant's family.
I like directer Rob Zombie's weird outsider way. Information technology'southward over-stylized Grindhouse. I just call up that author Rob Zombie needs help pulling all the craziness together into a coherent compelling plot. He needs to effigy out rooting involvement, and how to create tension. This is a bit of a mess merely it'southward a fascinating mess.
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I similar horror movies, but I don't really like this flick, is that OK?
I have to ask considering it seems that I'm not a true horror movie fan if I don't like this motion picture. Thats a load of crap. I take seen all the Nightmare on Elm Streets, Halloweens, Friday The 13ths, Hellraisers, Evil Deads, etc. etc. I similar film directors similar John Carpenter, Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Eli Roth. I've seen some obscure horror films as well, like Blood Embankment, The Visitor Of Wolves and fifty-fifty seen The Last Firm On the left (even though I didn't similar it that much).
Problem I had with this moving picture was it was likewise sadistic for its own good (the "bunny" killing scene especially fabricated my blood turn cold), the villains antics grew tiresome, and THAT scene where the gun was held on the guy'due south head was But Also LONG. No matter how stylish information technology was meant to be, it was just a director letting the scene run for also bloody long!
That said, I didn't totally dislike this movie. I could see that Rob Zombie has an obvious fondness for the horror movie and he set out to create a familiar story with his own sadistic and creative additions. The film was constructive at making me wonder if the actors playing the villains were actually acting or not, they did seem genuinely disturbed. Nevertheless, the victims were kind of ho hum.
The production design of the film looked impressive too, with a lot of visual points of references to horror clichés.
Main trouble was that I didn't actually enjoy watching it, and I grew bored with it in its latter stages. Information technology was shocking (in parts) but for beingness shocking and was just a film fabricated by an amateur movie maker (admitting an obviously enthusiastic one)
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Snore of m Snores?
I have always considered myself a fan of b-form horror movies and cult-classics. However, this picture show, I hope will never be considered either. Practically plotless, Zombie borrowed too many ideas from Texas Chainsaw massacre when scripting this musterpiece (significant is that all he could come upwards with,) and lingered far as well long on pointless photographic camera shots in an endeavour to capture an artistic sense of suspense(? is that what he was thinking??)
This film relied heavily on sex, foul language, and pointless gore to appeal to 13-yr-old boy mentality. Who is Dr. Satan and what does that proper noun have to do with this movie?-about admittedly nada. I have all but convinced myself that Rob Zombie just wanted to take a character in his film named Dr. Satan considering information technology was "cool" and kids would "dig" it. He should really stick to making boring music, at least in that area, he's somewhat talented, but and then once more, if all he was trying to accomplish was make money off of preteens and the rave generation looking for the next Rocky Horror play-along, well so, he's a bloody genius!
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More of a blackness comedy. No tension, no plot but skillful effort by a debutant director.
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I saw this first on cable channel in early 2004. Wasn't that impressed as a horror fan. Rob Zombie'due south debut is a throwback to the horror films of yesteryear. Stirring in elements of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He did an awesome Devils rejects, bad Halloween remakes, due north waiting for his new moving-picture show 31. His debut is a throwback to the horror films of yesteryear. It offers naught new. It was not scary, gory, suspenseful or tension filled. It was full of cliché n just painstakingly obvious. A existent stand out is the use of colour. The photography is surprisingly good for a horror try. Another large reason to watch is Sid Haig who acted in many 70s classic exploitation efforts. His recent Os Tomahawk was awesome. Agreed he had a very minor role. The film contains stylistic references to just nigh every 'cutting-edge' horror technique of the seventies, shaky-cam, point-of-view-camera, negative exposure etc. The dark humor was the best thing about the film, creating an interesting atmosphere. Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding was definitely this flick'south highlight. As well it has horror veteran, Bill Moseley.
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Don't Be a Hater
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There are a lot of haters for this pic. In that location are, also, plenty of people who worship at its' throne and I am proud to say that I autumn into the latter category. Permit's just go out of the manner that I am Not a Rob Zombie fanatic. I don't like his music. I was always a little bellyaching by his music videos. I pretty much hate his HALLOWEEN films. I practice admittedly love the films about the Firefly Family though.
This flick is depraved, sick, psychotic and nightmarish and I don't use whatever of those words with negativity. If y'all desire bland horror, there are plenty of CONJURING ripoffs out there for you. This movie can unnverve you lot. Many hate and mutter of the cutaways, the motion picture clips that are intercut, the odd little side paths that interweave. I think all of it adds to the quality of this movie. Much like Captain Spaulding's Murder Ride, the whole movie is a walk through a psychotic haunted firm. Yep, a lot of it feels similar a video DJ playing at a Halloween political party. If you hate that, I get it. I tin can empathise that information technology's not anybody's pocketbook, especially if you are of an older generation, but I love information technology and won't apologize for it.
We open at Helm Spaulding's, a gas station/ roadside allure. Nosotros meet our primary characters, but as well one of the best horror icons of the terminal 20 years, in Spaulding. He's foulmouthed, funny and scary besides. He takes our kids on the Murder Ride, which actually sets the tone, as well as the plot. Zombie has a lot of influences, nigh he is readily willing to admit. He rips off THE OLD Night House? Sure, he shows clips of it right in the movie. His aesthetic is pulled from Tobe Hooper? Absolutely, this ride is equally a beloved letter to THE FUNHOUSE.
Our introduction to the Firefly family is just as memorable. It'southward Halloween night and its seem they intend to have a talent show. We know that something isn't right, just information technology's non yet entirely obvious to our chief characters, until Baby's Betty Boop human activity sets off a jealous girlfriend and all hell begins to break loose.
From here, the moving-picture show goes all over the place. I understand that this is some other major complaint, but it'southward 1 of the things I love. It's a pastiche of scenes and each character and villain is immune to polish and play out their ain act. Again, I bring in the murder ride metaphor. It'due south similar a walk through the nigh twist haunted house you've ever seen. Not every scene is continued, simply each is terrifying and the stop result is one of absolute terror. Otis, Tiny, Dr Satan, The Professor. These are all amazing characters that will bring fear and absolutely memorable plenty to get iconic. The fact that they are continually fabricated into action figures, t-shirts, posters and masks is proof of the lasting legacy of this movie. Yes, there are plenty of haters, but walk into any horror convention and see how many HOTC shirts and cosplayers y'all see. Plenty of horror comes and goes, to be forgotten forever. This motion-picture show is new classic. Have it.
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OK of its blazon
Four friends searching for offbeat tourist attractions are taken prisoner and tortured by a sadistic family of killers. Reasonably well put-together entry into the torture porn subgenre of horror. At that place's actually non much story hither beyond getting these people to where they can be tortured and killed by these freaks. There's also the disturbing element of narrative sympathy with the killers, not the victims. This is not surprising given that Rob Zombie belongs to that breed of "heavy metal horror fan" that equates real-life killers similar Charles Manson with fictional movie monsters. It would be more than disconcerting if ane wasn't convinced these posers simply go enjoyment out of being shocking and offensive. Anyway, it'due south non a terrible movie of its blazon. I've certainly seen far worse and far more disgusting.
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Awful and not good awful
This is ane of the worst movies I take ever seen. I don't object to the violence or the gore or anything like it. I object to the stupid barely at that place plot the bad acting and stupid storyline. The people in the cinema seemed to agree with me with at least twenty people walking out and lots of laughter at supposedly scary or gory bits. It is usually possible to find something that a movie has going for it but this one leaves me completely blank as to any positives. A truly bad movie.
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Generic And Not Very Scary
House of g Corpses is a beneath average horror moving-picture show that'due south more disturbing and then scary. When car issues forcefulness cross-state travelers Jerry, Denise, Mary and Bill to stop for a break, the foursome pull into the gas station-cum-museum on the night of October 30, 1977--All Hallows Eve. Though about of the group is wary of the stranger they discover inside, Bill is enthralled, for he is penning a book of offbeat roadside attractions. When Spaulding invites them to have in the Museum'due south premiere attraction--the Murder Ride--they commence into a globe of darkness where "Life and expiry are meaningless and pain is God." But for these four travelers, this strange ride is just the beginning. The plot may non be original but information technology does sound like it has some potential. It didn't piece of work out so well equally the picture isn't very adept. I was expecting a good horror film that would be fun to watch but I didn't really get that. Rob Zombie directed and wrote the film and he apparently watched a lot of quondam horror films. The film only felt like a collection of old horror clichés. House of 1000 Corpses likewise gets actually ridiculous at times and the film seems like it wants to attain cult status, which it probably will. The acting was average with some performances existence scary and others being terrible. The all-time was Bill Moseley and his performance was constructive. The film is very disturbing every bit some scenes and images were defiantly very creepy. Its as well very gory simply that doesn't mean its scary. It also sometimes goes over the top on the gore. The running time is only 88 minutes long though it does get wearisome at times. In that location were a lot of horror flicks that were released in 2003 and this i is probably at the bottom of the listing. At that place's a sequel coming out soon that I'll probably cease up watching and hopefully they will improve. In the cease, this is a anticipated, unoriginal horror flick that's worth skipping. Rating 4.3/ten, horror fans and everyone else should skip this film.
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A ridiculously over the elevation schlocky horror comedy that has very trivial in common with the 1970s horror classics it's supposedly "inspired" by.
Being a big fan of onetime school horror from the 1930s to the 1970s I had high hopes for 'House Of thousand Corpses'. I'thou no Rob Zombie fan but I know he has cool gustation in movies ('Night Of The Living Dead', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Impale!', 'Dawn Of The Dead', 'Spider Baby', 'Phantasm',etc.), even taking his bands proper noun from the Bela Lugosi classic 'White Zombie'. The word was that 'House...' was a homage to 70s horror and was and so extreme it wasn't going to be released. I was expecting a gritty, grainy documentary-style movie in the tradition of 'The Concluding House On The Left' and 'The Texas Concatenation Saw Massacre'. Instead it's like an MTV version of 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2'. It'due south basically a ridiculously over the tiptop schlocky horror comedy. Anyone who truly believes this is like the 70s classics it claims to exist inspired by has no idea what they're talking well-nigh! 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' and 'The Hills Accept Eyes' may have some black humour in them and occasionally border on the ridiculous, only for the about part they accept a sense of realism that makes them genuinely agonizing. 'House Of thousand Corpses' is annihilation simply. I only thought information technology was stupid, and the waste of a neat cast, led by the legendary Sid Haig ('Spider Baby' and several other Jack Hill exploitation movies) and including 70s faves Karen Black and Michael J. Pollard, Bill "Chop Elevation" Moseley, and Tom Towles (Otis in 'Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer'). Look, I call back most horror movies made these days suck, especially all the seen-it-all-before post-'I Know What Y'all Did Last Summer' slashers, but 'Business firm Of g Corpses' is NOT the savior of contemporary horror. To me it's but as lousy equally the movies it is supposedly fighting confronting, but in a different mode.
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Don't make the same mistake I did *Alert* SPOILERS!
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All I heard about all twelvemonth was how great this movie was, and how scary it was. I'm going to be very edgeless and fair. It isn't any of those things. I was horrified, in a bad mode. The acting was and then bad I near left the room, the gory violence was Style besides much, and it only seemed that fashion because information technology was quite fake. There was so many plot holes I lost count! This is probably the WORST movie I accept always seen in my unabridged life! As shortly equally it ended, I grabbed the disk from my DVD thespian, put it back in it's case and returned it for my money back (To my misfortune, we bought it) That's ii hours I'll never get back, save your fourth dimension and money and don't see information technology. If Rob Zombie is giving up his music career for this... I am truely sad... all in all 0/10
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