House of 1000 Corpses (2002)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 64
There's an abundance of gore in this derivative horror movie, but little sense or wit.
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 13
There's an abundance of gore in this derivative horror movie, but little sense or wit.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 123,920
Movie Info
Taking his cue from such 1970s horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), animated rocker Rob Zombie goes celluloid with the throwback shocker House of 1000 Corpses. Running low on gas as they travel the highways of America in search of the ultimate roadside attraction, a group of teens pull into Captain Spaulding's (Sid Haig) museum of oddities (which also offers fried chicken and gasoline) only to become obsessed with uncovering the mystery of a
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Cast
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Sid Haig
Captain Spaulding -
Bill Moseley
Otis -
Sheri Moon Zombie
Baby -
Karen Black
Mother Firefly -
Chris Hardwick
Jerry -
Erin Daniels
Denise Willis -
Jennifer Jostyn
Mary Knowles -
Rainn Wilson
Bill Hudley -
Walton Goggins
Steve Naish -
Tom Towles
George Wydell -
Matthew McGrory
Tiny -
Robert Allen Mukes
Rufus -
Dennis Fimple
Grampa Hugo -
Harrison Young
Don Willis -
William H. Bassett
Sheriff Huston -
Irwin Keyes
Ravelli -
Michael J. Pollard
Stucky -
Judith Drake
Skunk Ape Wife -
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Jake McKinnon
The Professor -
Joe Dobbs
Gerry Ober -
Chad Bannon
Killer Karl -
Gregg Gibbs
Doctor Wolfenstein -
Ken Johnson
Skunk Ape Husband -
Walter Phelan
Doctor Satan -
David Reynolds
Richard Wick
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All Critics (86) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (64) | DVD (22)
Possibly the greatest waste of celluloid since Jerry Lewis was first allowed to stand before a camera.
In this field of endeavour, any intense reaction is unsustainable, for the obvious reason that the guiding principle of repetition comes with an inevitable corollary and unavoidable side-effect -- sheer boredom.
House of 1000 Corpses isn't coherent, exactly, but what dripping-ghoul horror movie is these days?
A cobwebbed, mummified horror entry that makes obvious, cartoonishly grotesque demands for attention.
Wit follows coherence out the window.
Parts have been cannibalized from better shockers and, worse, the stitches holding them together are so obvious they glow in the dark.
Cheesy, vapid, contrived, and shallow...
I can applaud House of 1000 Corpses on at least one level: The movie has absolutely no interest whatsoever in sanitized horror.
Le réalisateur cite abondamment, mais ne parvient jamais à donner un sens à ses élans qui finissent par s'éparpiller dans un fourre-tout incohérent et anormalement tapageur
Um filme tão estúpido e mal realizado que me despertou o desejo de agredir fisicamente o diretor-roteirista Rob Zombie, cujo sobrenome deve fazer referência ao seu intelecto.
A disaster area.
Those who are tired of Hollywood's dead weight aesthetic might at least find some surprise offered here. It's not good, but it's alive on the screen.
It is disturbing, to say the least, and seems destined for 'cult classic' status.
I was never scared by this B-movie or its Grade-Z dialogue. The film usually has such a cartoonish, pulpy feel that all the spills and chills seem fake and unsurprising.
Redneck humour + heavy metal video mentality = the future of horror
That rare film that strives for cult status and will most likely achieve it.
A tour-de-farce of depressing inanity, that's unable to do anything more than offer a messy, incoherent pastiche of other, better movies.
Unintentionally comical like a bad '70s slasher flick, but also enthralling in a circus freak show sort of way.
The movie that no studio wanted... and with good reason.
The gory bloodbaths are as gratuitous as ten Friday The 13ths combined on a Halloween night: if ever there was a film destined for Rocky Horror cultdom, this sanguinary delight is it.
Underneath the unhinged surfaces of this film is a tight little thriller that really grabs hold and never lets go.
It's like a Clive Barker gore-fest as interpreted by an idiot carnival showman, robbed of anything that would make it work.
There's a sense of overkill-no pun intended-that stops being drive-in fun and becomes exhausting.
Still, it's impossible not to admire any movie with a soundtrack that includes Helen Kane singing 'I Wanna Be Loved by You' and Slim Whitman yodeling 'I Remember You.'
Upholding an atmosphere of dementia, Zombie returns horror to its roots of abstraction over logic.
The scariest thing about the film is your own emotion, as you burn with rage watching it -- angry that you've been hoodwinked into paying for such slipshod work.
Audience Reviews for House of 1000 Corpses
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- Baby: I outta rip you tits off and shove them down your throat.
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- Captain Spaulding: I'll tell you what ski king, how about you take home yo momma some chicken and then I won't have to stuff my boot all up in yo ass!
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- Otis: [looking at Jerry while wearing a mask made of human skin] What was this guy looking for? Oh! I remember... You were trying to find Dr. Satan. Well how about we go and find him...
- Jerry: [moaning and grunting] Fuck you!
- Otis: [takes off mask] It's all true. The boogeyman is real, and you found him.
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