elmerflp
The simplest description of this movie would be a live, closed-circuit feed from Hell. There are absolutely no redeeming features to the acting or plot. Just unremitting gross-out butchery. 90 minutes of your life that you can't get back. This far outdoes any other awful movie I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot. It's not even charmingly awful, like Plan Nine From Outer Space. It's just soul-crushingly awful.
Wuchak
RELEASED IN 2003 (but shot in 2000) and written/directed by Rob Zombie, "House of 1000 Corpses" is a horror/black comedy about two young couples who inadvertently visit a house of demented serial killers in backwoods Texas.A critic summed the movie up as "a ridiculous horror comedy, but with extremely annoying villains." It was inspired by (or rips off) "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) and combines it with the cartoonish horror comedy of "Evil Dead II" (1987) while throwing in a little "The Funhouse" (1981).The entire first act, including the amusing prologue that introduces Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), is very entertaining, but the over-the-top approach starts to get dull by the middle of the picture with the overdone events at the demented Firefly abode. The last act gets so cartoonish that I thought maybe the main protagonist (Erin Daniels) was experiencing a nightmare. The fantastical elements strip away any vestige of horror that was hardly there in the first two acts, which were too zany to take as serious horror. As such, I can't see anyone older than 7 finding this movie "disturbing." Still, the film pulsates with colorful pizazz and characters, not to mention a quality score/soundtrack.Sheri Moon Zombie is effective in her role as Baby Firefly. I liked her voice and didn't mind her laugh (which many criticize), but she's a little too thin for my tastes. Daniels works pretty well as the main protagonist. But, considering Zombie's resources (e.g. the five captive cheerleaders), the flick sorta drops the ball in the female department.The film sat on the shelf so long because Universal feared a NC-17 rating. Lions Gate eventually picked it up, but it was cut & edited in an attempt to achieve an R-rating. The original version was 16 minutes longer.THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 29 minutes and was shot in Southern Cal (Chicken Ranch Backlot, Universal Studios; Palmdale; Santa Clarita; and Saugus).GRADE: B-/C+
trexman-79876
The thing is about this movie other than it being hilarious to watch is that I have no idea what it is actually about; I mean you would think that doctor Satan who was hyped up at the start would be the main antagonist, but instead it's some random family who likes killing (because of course), then you would think that when doctor Satan, the big bady, the one and only finally shows up he dies from falling debris..... ya this movie is just classic good bad movie which is why it's hard to rate those unless you have some other scale (The garbage scale or something) to rate it on. I'm going to give it a 7 on the turd scale and a 2 on the actual scale.
chimera3
I first found Rob Zombie through his music. Granted most of the lyrics made no sense, it was still fun to listen to. Then I discovered through a good friend that he was into making movies. Upon seeing this, I knew that I had been hooked...to a point. Violence has always been Rob's specialty and this is certainly no different. He is a very colorful character who goes right for the throat and is not afraid of producing a rather large amount of shock value in his work.The Firefly family is your typical family who lives out in the woods and doesn't care about anyone or anything but themselves. When you have Bill Moseley (probably picked because of his role in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2") with Karen Black ("Five Easy Pieces," just to name one) and Rob's wife Sheri, you can't go wrong. Who could avoid Mama Firefly's cackle and Baby Firefly's childish giggle? Otis is just emotionless. You can't see anything on his face, but that's the entire point when you have a family of insane killers terrorizing the unsuspecting locals.Dark with a capital D, it possesses some interesting music and characters that you either love, hate, or even both. The dialogue is pretty good too. Watch this over and over. You may find something that you like.
AD
