House Of 1000 Corpses - My Review

[Dyne]

not playing here either anyone see rob on craig kilborn? he even admitted that you should feel ashamed for liking what you saw when you get out of the theatre

[Korian]

Dyne that sucks that it's not playing near you, I missed Kilborn last night, but it's funny that he comments about how disturbing the Movie is. I'd say maybe it's worth a drive to a bigger town to see it, but I don't think any Movie is worth the extra trouble.

[Dolemite]

Aw, come on. Road trips can be fun. Drive somewhere where's there's other stuff to do besides see the movie. Lucky for me, it's playing within a 5 minute drive of my house. I'm going to see it tomorrow (Thursday) night.

[Opaque]

This movie is a fine example of the cheesy stupid crap poeple will make when you give them to much money... "Dr. Satan", that's so ghey...

[Dolemite]

Okay, I saw it last night. Holy shit, did this movie suck. I'm so dissapointed, since I've been looking forward to this piece of shit for years. It wasn't scary, it had no plot, barely any gore at all (and I don't care how much gore was cut, it wouldn't have helped), plus I hated all the MTV-style negative and fast-cut shots. It was filmed like a shitty music video. It got sorta decent/creepy right at the end when the girl discovered Dr. Satan and his axe-weilding buddy, but that was, like, 5 minutes of the movie. Otherwise, it sucked completely.

Well, there was ONE good thing, but Rob Zombie even managed to fuck THAT up...Baby was SOOOO goddamn hot. That part when they first get to the house and they change clothes and Baby's ass appears on camera with her pajama bottoms pulled halfway down her ass was a special, magical moment. I had heard (falsely) there was tons of nudity in this movie, so I was hoping for more nice shots of Baby like that one, but, aside from the part where she's wearing the thong in the prono store, nothing. You suck, Zombie.

[Despair]

Not much gore? Really? Then whats with all the hoopla about it being too violent, gruesome and disturbing that no major studios wanted to deal with it and forced Zombie to intensively cut things out?

Hmm, I will rent the dvd once it comes out to see directors cut, and hopefully it will be a bit better than theatrical release.

[Korian]

Heh, well I guess I'm the only one that liked it, but I have weird tastes sometimes.

I'd say the nudity was more quick flashes in the trippy like scenes, than blatent tit shots. I would have to say that there was a fair amount of gore, like the DR Satan scenes, but it was cut so you could get quick flashes and more implied. I really enjoyed the Funhouse and Texas Chaisaw Massacre, so maybe that was part of the reason. I'd say some of the tortue scenes were kinda graphic, but may be tame if your used to watching other types of Horror.

I'm very interested in the Final Cut of this.

[Dolemite]

Yeah, there WAS some nice gore in the Dr. Satan scene, but that was brief. And what Otis did with the one girl's father's face was cool, too. Otherwise, there was very little gore at all. Way too many people got killed by guns for a horror movie. I suppose I've seen so many gruesome horror movies that the torture scenes in House of 1000 Corpses did seem rather tame in comparison. I'm a HUGE horror fan, and I really wanted to like this movie. I'm a fan of disturbing imagery, but the stuff in this movie seemed more "trippy" than scary. The house in that piece of shit movie Nothing But Trouble was more distrubing than this one. Oh, well.

And if it says anything, I'm not a huge fan of The Funhouse or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I liked them both better than this movie. Tobe Hooper doing Tobe Hopper is pretty good, Rob Zombie doing Tobe Hooper is not.

How about the part where Otis is holding the gun to the cop's hear for, like, an hour as the camera slooooowly pans back and upward? That was annoying. You could argue that Zombie was drawing out the moment to increase the drama and tension, but that only works if the audience comes to care about the character that's being shot. This movie, like most horror flicks, had zero character development. If you ask me, these types of movies are 1000x more effective if you actually get to know and like the characters...they it's all the more scary when they're killed or placed in a dangerous situation.

Oh, and Baby was SO FUCKING HOT.

[Super-Eggroll]

Originally posted by Dolemite
Yeah, there WAS some nice gore in the Dr. Satan scene, but that was brief. And what Otis did with the one girl's father's face was cool, too. Otherwise, there was very little gore at all. Way too many people got killed by guns for a horror movie. I suppose I've seen so many gruesome horror movies that the torture scenes in House of 1000 Corpses did seem rather tame in comparison. I'm a HUGE horror fan, and I really wanted to like this movie. I'm a fan of disturbing imagery, but the stuff in this movie seemed more "trippy" than scary. The house in that piece of shit movie Nothing But Trouble was more distrubing than this one. Oh, well.

And if it says anything, I'm not a huge fan of The Funhouse or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I liked them both better than this movie. Tobe Hooper doing Tobe Hopper is pretty good, Rob Zombie doing Tobe Hooper is not.

How about the part where Otis is holding the gun to the cop's hear for, like, an hour as the camera slooooowly pans back and upward? That was annoying. You could argue that Zombie was drawing out the moment to increase the drama and tension, but that only works if the audience comes to care about the character that's being shot. This movie, like most horror flicks, had zero character development. If you ask me, these types of movies are 1000x more effective if you actually get to know and like the characters...they it's all the more scary when they're killed or placed in a dangerous situation.

Oh, and Baby was SO FUCKING HOT.

Pretty much sums up my impressions as well. I wanted to walk out after the first 15 minutes, but kinda wanted to see just how shitty it would get the further it played. Gotta be the worst movie I've seen in a long time.

Isn't Baby the chick Zombie puts on all his CD covers? She's hot, but that giggle of hers got annoying REAL quick.

[Dolemite]

Originally posted by Super-Eggroll
Isn't Baby the chick Zombie puts on all his CD covers? She's hot, but that giggle of hers got annoying REAL quick.

Yeah, that's her. She's actually Rob Zombie's wife. And I kinda liked the giggle...