*** Official "HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES" Discussion Thread (1 Viewer)

[Andres Munoz]

Just watched this last night with my wife. After the credits started rolling she turned around, looked me straight in the eyes and said: "Don't you ever make me sit through sh!t like this AGAIN!". And she meant it. I haven't seen her that upset in a while.

As for me? I don't know what to think of it. I'm so confused. "Weird-ass movie" is an understatement. I don't know whether I like it or hate it.

The only reason why I'd watch it again would be for Sid Haig (THE MAN!) or Sheri Moon (so hot!). But I don't think I want to sit through the whole thing again.

I'll give its "sequel" a try when it comes out on DVD. Hopefully I'll have an opinion on that.

 

[ChrisBEA]

The sequel is a huge step up in the filmmaking talents of Mr. Zombie. It also is not a horror film, more of a gritty revenge flick. They are definitely related, but vastly different in tone. I liked House, but Rejects is a much better film.

 

[Andres Munoz]

Thanks for the comments Chris. I'll check it out as soon as it's out on DVD.

 

[ChrisBEA]

You can check out my review: here .

 

[Andres Munoz]

Great review Chris. Now I'm really psyched to watch this movie. I wonder when it'll be out on video.

 

[ChrisBEA]

Thanks!

My guess is this fall sometime, perhaps around Halloween?

 

[Rhoq]

I bought the House Of 1,000 Corpses DVD a few weeks ago because I wanted to see The Devil's Rejects. I figured it would be better going into 'Rejects' already knowing the main characters.

Anyways, I really enoyed '1,000 Corpses' up until the last 10 minutes. I think it all fell apart once they went underground into Dr. Satan's lair. To me it took the film somewhere it didn't need to go and went from a decent horror flick into some bizarre sci-fi fiasco that felt like a trainwreck to watch.

Other than that, I though it was a rather decent first effort from Zombie, very reminiscent of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre but with a much more entertaining family of misfits (sans "Leatherface" of course).

'Rejects' was more of Natural Born Killers kind of flick. Definitely not horror, even though it chronicals the further "adventures" of the Firefly family. Different from the first film, but very well put together and much tighter, overall.