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Summary: pure psychotic
Review: The movie was great. I loved every minute of it. For the people who gave this movie bad reviews, they don't know what a good horror movie is. Rob did a great job with this movie. I can't wait until the sequel. I 2 am going to make a horror movie in the future, and this movie helps me think about the movie I want 2 make. My movie will be more sadistic(no offense), and this movie will help me in the long run.
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Summary: Zombie didn't do a bad job
Review: To start, I'd like to point out that I like movies with twisted endings and morbid plots, so this will affect my reactions.This film isn't all that terrible, as I'm hearing people say. Most of the bad reviews are due to people not understanding the genre and the ending. The film was very much true to what it's meant to be, a twisted and sick horror film. The typical horror film characters show up and tend to be a bit more extreme than they could be. The weak of stomach could have a hard time getting through some of this, best example is that someone is skinned in the film. Be sure to watch this film substance-free to catch all that goes on in the background, as well as being able to remember it afterwards. By the time the end of the film has come, you'll be wanting to figure out exactly what was going on. If you dig the twisted, this movie is a must. Put it on your "Top 10 movies to watch" for the year.
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Summary: Run rabbit run
Review: Rob Zombie should make more films if this was the first think of what else sits in that sick mind of his.
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Summary: Doesn't live up to it's potential
Review: It's got a great begining. It has so much promise. The clown, the little jokes, it's all terrific at first. But about two thirds of the way into the film you realize it's not going anywhere with that great start. And then in the last five minuites (and it takes forever to get to those last minuites and I'm not spoiling anything here, trust me) - anyways, in the last five minuites it almost redeems itself but it's just gone too far off track to actually make it worth it. I watched this with some friends during a horror-movie-watching fest, and at that two thirds mark we started making fun of it. Up till then we'd been riveted, glued to the movie. After that, we just gave up and mocked it. With about, oh, half an hour or forty-five minuites cut out of it it might be worth it. There are some great scenes, some great ideas. And you should probably watch it at least once, so you can say you did, and out of curiosity. Plus, there really are some great scenes. But it's so definitely not worth a second watch. If it were a bit tighter, leaner, edited better, if it didn't go so far over the top on a little acid-trip diversion, then it would be such a good film. I know the acid-trip bit was intentional, but it took too long. It's like a dramatic silent pause that goes too long: everyone will be quiet, and everyone will hold their breath for only so long: then the drama goes out of it and you start laughing at what might otherwise have been something tense. Maybe that was intentional, I dunno.
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Summary: Flat
Review: Now we know why Riff Raff didn't get his own movie 30 years ago. Uninspired characters and really annoying editing. Some of the camera work was well done, but it's not worth the price of admission.
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Summary: Hell on earth!
Review: Hell on earth. It was high-time a horror movie of this callibre returned to the silver screen. This presentation incorperates elements in a Twin Peaks / Lost Highway, David Lynch vein, with intermittant flashes of images projected to be disturbing with a seeming antithesis of the current scene at hand, as if the pleasant life memories of the victim display within their mind as they die, to accentuate the progressive horror of their demise. The movie begins with carnival music resurrected by Dr. LaVey in his infamous Music Room scene from Speak of The Devil, accompanied by a mascot with a bald head and goatee bouncing about the place from time to time. Suburban college kids travel with their girlfriends in 1977 to persue the urban legend of "Dr. Satan" {obvious LaVey influence} and various roadside attractions of the bizarre kind along the way, when they come upon a backwoods museum of the strange, hosted by a yokle attired in clown motif who also runs a funhouse called "The Murder Ride" featuring true crime displays, including profiles on Albert Fish the cannibal, among others, infamous in those parts. So the foursome are out to to find out if any of the tales are true. Little did they know that a short while earlier, the place was almost robbed by a couple of incompetent brutish bafoons who are quickly outwitted by the clown and his elderly friend, both experienced freaks of the trade. Yet the likes of this was to pale in comparison to what they were yet to experience for real. After having taken the Murder Ride Tour, quite enjoyable as it was, with the host displaying an attire similar to KIng Diamond's , including face-paint and top hat, they persist to interview the keeper more about the legend; so he decides to direct them to an area where it was said to have originated from. On the way, they pick ujp a delightfully doll-like cowgirl {played by Zombie's girlfriend / fiancee' "Sherry"} who leads them into a trap in alliance with a shadowy phantom in the wilderness who shoots their tire out from under them. She offers to walk over to her brother's, who just so happens to own a tow-truck - then the true horror begins - one by one they are preyed upon by the resident homicidal hellbillies in various methods of mutilation, psychological torture until death is mercifully bestowed, in a very Texas Chainsaw Massacre style. One scenario that I found to be of particular and amusing mention was when the remaining two of the suburban four are marched off to meet Dr. Satan {also seems to be an exagerrated composit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death}, dressed in rabbit foo-foo costumes, which establishes the differentiation between the predator and the prey, both the more and less evolved creatures' interaction. Another notable bit was the use of Aleister Crowley's poem narration in slow-motion while the foos were being lowered into the Black Earth, while inside of a coffin displaying a cross on the lid, which I found to be meaningful symbolism, as crucifixes and crosses are symbols of death, which were also drawn upon one character's face who performed a priest role in the mock funeral of those who have gone below. In the end, House of 1,000 Corpses is a recommended film, and definitely stands out amongst all of the films currently released in this time frame, but what really makes it work is the remarkable style of the 70's, which did spawn the remarkable constant-classic Halloween. And there have been few outright, gut-wrenching serious horror movies which have been able to reach this level of entertainment, most of which are usually relegated immediately to video shelves because they prove to be too frightening for the masses, but are preserved for the serious Horror fantom. This is not a goofy parody passed as a "horror" flick, as the humor herein is truly black, as My companion and I were the only ones in the theatre laughing many times. I noticed sheeple leaving on a couple of occasions, seemingly just too disturbed to remain there being subjected to the nightmarish progression therein, which I would consider to be quite a compliment for a horror writer, director, or producer, who also happens to be a Satanist. "There is no good or evil. You just do what you gotta' do."
________________________________ Extra bit of horror trivia: There was also a movie named "House of Seven Corpses" starring John Carradine and John Ireland which was released in 1973.
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Summary: A pure Sadisitc Horror-filled movie
Review: Gore gallore and nothing else. No plot, insulting images, disturbing content, revolting language and filled with nothing but that. Horror fanatics will devour this movie, but I couldn't simply understand how anybody would enjoy this. Sure i am a huge fan of horror, but this wasn't horror. And whats with this Work Of Demonic Brilliance stuff? There is no Brilliance in this movie, just idiotic.
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Summary: The boogie man fails at film making
Review: I was so excited to hear Rob Zombie was making a movie..I waited over 3 years for HOTC to be released. As my friend and I were about to walk in the theatre with our tickets in hand, we ran into some people saying the flick was sick, twisted, even scary! I watched it in disgust. It wasn't sick, far from twisted, and 360 degrees away from scary! I fu(kin hated it... This was worse than Dee Sniders Strangeland. This was just as bad as his Rob Zombie career. I am a huge fan of WHITE ZOMBIE!!!don't get me wrong, but when they broke up, all their creativity broke up, take this movie for example.
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Summary: If i could give it a zero, i would!
Review: Wow, this movie was total bore...nothing fun, no gore, nothing...just aimless running and screaming. It's movies like this that remind me why i am losing interest in the horror/gore/shock genre because they have no real value. I mean, watching a girl run around screaming for two hours (give or take a little more) can be fun...for the first 5 minutes, but then it just becomes annoying and you want to turn it off, but, you wait, in great hopes, that SOMETHING exciting will happen...and it never does. Beside, those who say it is a tribute to the horror/gore films of the 70's...well, this did not even come close to "justice"...do not see this film, unless you want to be bored out of your bloody mind!
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Summary: Impossible not to like (for horror buffs, anyway)
Review: If you understand that Rob Zombie was simply trying to make the most f***ed-up horror flick he possibly could, you will enjoy this twisted little romp. You'll turn your nose up at this movie if you interpret it as anything else.
The cast itself is great. I was thrilled to see funnyman Chris Hardwick (former host of "Shipmates" and "Singled Out") having a ball in one of the leading roles. Sig Haig is priceless as Captain Spaulding, the foul-mouthed, clown-faced gas station/museum proprietor. These two alone make watching this film worthwhile.
But there's also great visuals, an awesome soundtrack, neat-o setpieces, and teriffic make-up. And plenty of blood to satisfy the gorehounds.
This is one flick that revels in how twisted it is. There's not much else to it, but so what? Either Siskel or Ebert once said, "It takes at least 3 great scenes to make a good movie." This movie has a whole bunch more than that. You'll remember it long after it's over, and more than likely want to see it again. Bravo, Mr. Zombie! Make another movie!
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