House of 1000 Corpses

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House of 1000 Corpses

R

2003

1h 28m

Horror

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An empty fuel tank and a flat tire lead two couples down a terror-riddled road to the House of 1000 Corpses. House of 1000 Corpses is at its core a story of family - a cast of twisted individuals who, with each slash of a throat or stab thru the chest, add bodies to their sick human menagerie.

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Critics Consensus

There's an abundance of gore in this derivative horror movie, but little sense or wit.

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

04/28/2014

2/4

Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses has nostalgia on its side but not much else.

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Jamie Russell

BBC.com

09/30/2003

1/5

A tour-de-farce of depressing inanity, that's unable to do anything more than offer a messy, incoherent pastiche of other, better movies.

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Daniel Fienberg

L.A. Weekly

04/25/2003

Zombie wants his film to be gleefully demented, but he fails to grasp that loud, inbred evil people torturing stupid, grating benign people isn't disturbing as much as tedious.

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David Day

Horror Movie Talk

Sep 23

2/10

It seems like Rob saw films like Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, and Salem’s Lot, as a child and wondered to himself, “What goes on in the parts of these movies that I don’t get to see?

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 9

3/5

Works best as a fun way to get into the Halloween spirit, but is otherwise a derivative mixtape of Zombie's biggest influences.

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May Leitz

Nyx Fears

03/19/2024

Even if it's not a great movie, I wish every horror movie were more like this movie. We'd all have a lot more fun come Halloween, squirming in a chair like we're meant to.

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Uriel

04/21/2023

Film is just to fun watch

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Neal K.

@RT09026463 2d

The ending was a bit too much, like a quota meant all this had to be shoved into the end under the house.

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Lorde M.

@Lord_Fears Feb 15

Sexy, spooky, haunting and eerie… Captain Spaulding, Baby Firefly, Dr. Satan, hell the whole demented family rocks🤘🏾

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Justin T

@RT08580778 Feb 14

I mostly enjoyed this film. It was kinda like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) but with more story to it. It was good but not as shocking and the direction was just like a death metal music video. By nature though, a feature length music video is going to be more style than substance. It’s not amazing, it’s fine. The ideas were good but handled badly with the direction style. The violence was a bit hidden but one or two bits were really horrible. The makeup and sets were really good. Overall fine but let down by lack of depth.

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Jeff S.

@JeffSteen Feb 10

Rob’s first and by far best film yet! Something tells me he’s going to be chasing a film this good for the rest of his career. Tough having your first film also be your masterpiece.

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Steven F.

@SteveGotScored Feb 10

One of the funnest horror movies ever made!

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Synopsis

An empty fuel tank and a flat tire lead two couples down a terror-riddled road to the House of 1000 Corpses. House of 1000 Corpses is at its core a story of family - a cast of twisted individuals who, with each slash of a throat or stab thru the chest, add bodies to their sick human menagerie.

Director: Rob Zombie
Producer: Andy Gould, Andrew D. Given
Screenwriter: Rob Zombie
Distributor: Lionsgate Films, Shooting Gallery
Production Co: Universal Pictures
Rating: R (Sexuality|Language|Strong Sadistic Gore|Strong Sadistic Violence)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 11, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 31, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.6M
Runtime: 1h 28m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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