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House Of 1000 Corpses Description
Rob Zombie, the heavy metal hero who has
released such albums as SINISTER URGE and HELLBILLY DELUXE as a
solo act and ASTRO-CREEP 2000 with his band, White Zombie, takes
on the world of horror movies in this very bloody, very
entertaining tale that riffs off the old car-trouble story in
which a group of unsuspecting travelers must spend the night in a
place of demented evil--in this case, the Museum of Monsters and
Madmen. Zombie makes the movie work for the same reason his music
career has been so successful: He knows he's going way over the
top, and he's not afraid to go as far as he can, so eager viewers
should put their tongues in their cheeks and go along for the
raunchy ride.
The always beguiling Karen Black, who starred in one of the
all-time great horror classics, BURNT OFFERINGS, turns in another
terrifically offbeat performance as Mother Firefly, the marvelous
matriarch of a murderous family. Other fabulously gruesome
characters include the crazy clown Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig)
and the oddball "lady killer" Otis Driftwood (Bill
Moseley); Marx Brothers fans should note that many of Zombie's
characters are named after roles played by Groucho. One of the
advertising lines for the movie calls it "positively the most
horrifying film ever made!" Zombie does his best to try to
live up to that demanding tag, upping the gore quotient with
numerous inventive killings that involve lots of blood and
innards.
"Rocker Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
is at once a work of demonic brilliance and of wretched excess
that could serve as a timely, savagely comic metaphor for the
darkest impulses of the American psyche..."
Theatrical Release: APRIL 11, 2003
"...This is everything you'd expect from a
Rob Zombie flick, a junk artefact peopled by colourful sickos..." |
