This movie is stupid
but also sort of fun. Very gory, but not like Dead Alive type gory.
I thought it was stupid as well. But not in the fun way. I found it pretty annoying. The first fifteen minutes or so showed some promise, and the scene where the cops come to investigate with the girls' father was fairly well done....the rest, frankly, was a pain to sit through. For me at least.
i thought it was great! it's a b-movie horror film in the same vein as NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. rob zombie understands that genre on film and it really shows in this movie. it was just so bloody and violent and the soundtrack kick fuckin' ass! it has everything you want in a horror movie like kidnapped cheerleaders, haunted houses, a local myth, a group of traveling sexy teens, fried chicken and guy named dr. satan.
Yeah, that's why I thought it was fun, but a lot of parts were what I like to call "fucking stupid"
I want to see this movie SO FUCKING BADLY!
In another thread you mentioned that you liked the Resident Evil movie. So did I. I expected that movie to be really terrible and the only reason I went to see it was because I wasn't paying my way in and I was bored. Damn was I surprised at how much I liked it (more than House of 1000 anyway)
I didn't like Resident Evil much, but it was way better than House of 1000 Corpses. Which is unfortunate, because I was really rooting for Rob Zombie. I used to be a big fan -- I waited in line for four hours to get his autograph once. He's got such a wonderful monster movie sensibility. Anyone who names a song after a car from the Munsters is cool in my book. And any horror movie set in the seventies with a character named Dr. Satan sounds like my cup of tea.
But the movie completely derails once it gets to the crazy family's house. It's not really scary, and it's not enjoyable (for me, anyway). Mostly it just felt obnoxious. Its a rip off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Night Of The Living Dead, but without the quality. And it's not even gory. I know it was cut for an R rating, but they still could have had a lot more blood n' guts.
Oh well. Now I'm just looking forward to 28 Day Later and Cabin Fever.
Quote from: GhostboyIts a rip off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre without the quality.
Good point, you.
QuoteNow I'm just looking forward to 28 Day Later
I'm going to be so pissed if I don't like this movie
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!
The slow motion 20-30 some second wait before he shoots him was fucking awesome.
END SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!
I thought so too, but I wish the audience wasn't completely destroying the tension by shouting "DO IT" through the whole thing
Just saw a preview for Jeepers Creepers 2. :shock:
The preview for "1000 Corpses" looks pretty bad.
"Do you know the legend of Doctor Satan?"
"Doctor Satan!"
It would be funny if he turned out to be Doctor Saytan.
I had to do a review of this movie and it was so fucking bad that it gave me SARS!
God, this movie was so bad. There wasn't anything original in the whole film. Everything was just tired retreads of the horror genre. It really reminded me a lot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, except TCM:TNG was way better (and that movie was horrible). At first I thought the quick-cuts to grainy home movie quality was cool, but it was WAY overused. I honestly believe this to be the worst movie I have ever seen. I'm such a fan of the genre, which saddens me when something so schlocky and point-missing as this film is released. Humor was severly lacking and the dialogue was godawful. ICP's movie Big Money Hustlas is just as bad. Musicians should not write feature-length films.
i loved it.
WE LIKE TO GET FUCKED UP AND DO FUCKED UP SHIT!
-Why don't you keep the change and get yourself a new name, GOOOOBER!
-Thanks, maam! Thanks for comin' ta... red hot... pussy liquors!
my favorite part was the "i wanna be loved by you" part. and the "brick house" sequence was gold.
Despite my thinking that the movie was pretty lame, I still want to see Rob Zombie make another film. Hopefully it'll be better.
In addition to funny lines like the Red Hot Pussy Liquor bit, I also appreciated the multiple references to Creature From The Black Lagoon and the box or Agatha Crispies cereal. I think Mr. Zombie could make a kick ass horror film, but this one ain't it. In my opinion.
I enjoyed it for what it was. It wasn't suppose to be original or brilliant. It was a homage to a genre.
At the beginning I thought it was a pretty good homage, but then they had that robot guy at the end that looked like Uber Jason. I was hoping it would be somewhat scary, but I think that the only thing that is scarry anymore are re-runs of Unsolved Mysteries.
Zombie Writing & Directing 1000 Corpses Sequel
Rob Zombie is set to write and direct a sequel to his horror film House of 1000 Corpses for Lions Gate Films, reports Variety. The film is expected to start shooting in the fall for an April release, a year after the first film. The original has grossed $11 million domestically in its first month of release.
"We are looking forward to releasing the next chapter in the series wide next April, which will be ideally positioned to outperform the original and hopefully will confirm it as a franchise for the company," said Lions Gate.
House of 1000 Corpses, which stars Sig Haig, Bill Mosley, Karen Black, Sherri Moon and Chris Hardwick, follows two young couples on a misguided tour onto the backroads of America, in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan, who are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Haig, Black, Moon and Mosley will return for the sequel.
My suggestions:
More gore.
Less chewing-with-mouths open.
MORE SID HAIG!!!!!
Yeah, they should just chuck the other members of the "family" and make the next movie entirely about Sid Haig's character. Of course, if they want to have lots of scenes of Sheri Moon naked, that would be OK too.
House of 1000 Corpses 2: Rob Zombie recently spoke to MTV about the horror sequel and how setting it up is very different from his debut work with the first film - "[Making the movie] is totally different this time. With Lions Gate [Films], they came to the rescue. And they really believe in the project. It's more like the opposite [of making the last one]. This time they are wishing me to move faster, so it's kind of funny. I started [writing] the sequel before I knew that I had a deal, because I just kind of function that way. It's almost done. Most of the script is completed, and if all goes well, we should start shooting in the fall". How's reaction been? "The fan reaction has been amazing, and that's all you can hope for, really. Without getting too specific, what I want to do with the second one, I don't want to re-create the first one and just put a '2' on the end of it. [It takes place] a week later, and [it deals with] the repercussions of what happened in the first film. At this point I kind of know what everybody loves, and that's all the bad characters, obviously. So it's just them going off on other things. But it's going to be totally different than anyone expects. And it will probably be a lot more violent". Finally, he confirmed he has no plans to return to music anytime soon.