I love this movie so much

You won't be disappointed!

Good concept, poorly executed.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is the first film from rock star Rob Zombie, a man that I have pretty much vilified in conversations and reviews for basically filming Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 over and over again (with side dishes of Horror House on Highway 5 and Eaten Alive). That said - I watched this with an open mind and the hope of being entertained. Zombie started directed several of his band White Zombie's videos and was selected by Universal Studios to design a haunted maze for their Halloween Horror Nights. It was so successful that he was credited with reviving the attraction and he began a relationship with the studio. He has previously worked on a script for a sequel to The Crow called The Crow: 2037 A New World of Gods and Monsters.Despite plans for an animated Frankenstein film, Zombie decided to turn his haunted house into an actual movie. Filmed in 2000 on the Universal Studio backlots, which gives this the same feel as the aforementioned Eaten Alive, the film was held for three years as there was concern over releasing it, due to all the blood, gore, masturbation and necrophilia. Not wanting an NC-17, Universal was content to sit on the film until Zombie bought it back and sold it to Lion's Gate, who finally released it almost three years after the film had wrapped.The film opens on October 30, 1977, as two criminals attempt to rob the gas station of Captain Spalding (Sid Haig, Spider Baby). It's a quick intro to get us into the spirit of the film - down, dirty and scummy. Soon, Jerry (Chris Hardwick), Bill (The Office's Rainn Wilson), Mary and Erin arrive, as they are traveling the country writing about strange roadside attractions.Spalding gives them a tour of his Museum of Monsters and Madmen, during which he relates the legend of Doctor Satan, a mad doctor who was hung by an angry mob. Before they leave, he gives them a hand-drawn map to the tree where they lynched the man.On the way, they pick up Baby (Zombie's muse, Sheri Moon Zombie), a hitchhiker who gets in the car moments before a tire blows out and her half-brother Rufus (former pro wrestler Robert "Bonecrusher" Mukes) picks them up in his tow truck.What follows is a descent into madness, as the Firefly family (who are all named after Marx Brothers characters) takes over the film. There's Mother Firefly (Karen Black, Trilogy of Terror), adopted brother Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley, Chop Top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Grampa Hugo (character actor Dennis Fimple in his last film) and the deformed giant Tiny (Matthew McGrory , a real-life giant who is also in Bubble Boy and Big Fish). The family has already kidnapped five cheerleaders and now is presenting a Halloween show to their guests, who run in fear before being taken back into the house.The family begins to torture the four kids, including killing Bill to turn him into a mer-man like something out of an old roadside sideshow and scalping Jerry (who is named for the composer of the Star Trek theme).Meanwhile, Denise's dad Don and two deputies (Tom Towles from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Walton Goggins from TV's Justified) track down the missing kids, only to be killed by the family. Then, the remaining three are dressed as rabbits and chased through a maze.Jerry - despite being scalped - and Denise survive, only to find their way to Doctor Satan's lair, where he operates on Jerry and reveals that his assistant Earl is the father of the Firefly family. Denise, however, escapes again, only to be picked up by Captain Spalding, who offers to drive her to safety. She passes out and Otis appears in the back seat. She awakens on Doctor Satan's operating table and that's the end!The footage for this film is all over the place, much like Natural Born Killers. That's because Zombie filmed a lot of the sequences in his basement with a 16mm camera, including the opening shot of the moon.There are moments of style here, but the film feels pretty messy, There are enough ideas to fill several films and no real cohesive tale to be told, but that didn't take away my enjoyment of the film. It feels like there's promise here, unlike 31, where Zombie pretty much retold this same story again. There are several films that Zombie never made, like retellings of C.H.U.D. and The Blob, as well as an adaption of his comic The Nail called Tyrannosaurus Rex that would have been an homage to violent 70's action films. I would have loved to see what he could do with different subject matter.

This movie was horrible. Years ago when I got my first tattoo this had just come to video. They were playing it and as soon as it ended it restarted and I had to watch it again. It wasn't worth one watch let alone two.

House of 1000 Corpses isn't necessarily as scary as it is fun to watch. While there is a reasonable story, it just feels like more of a catalyst for some of the movie's more creepy and intense set pieces. House of 1000 Corpses is a comedy horror, which is perfectly fine, but the problem is that it doesn't pull each genre off that well. In my opinion, I think the movie would have been much better off had it either gone with being purely a horror movie, or first and foremost a comedy with some horror elements. Another pretty subjective thing I feel like I need to say is that I only really enjoyed the first and final acts of the movie. It's not that the middle was bad, it's just that when half of it was just so forgettable, it doesn't work as well. If you think you'll like this movie, then you probably will, but if you're not sure, then I recommend going elsewhere.

I don't normally write reviews but I just read an Absolutely terrible review of this movie and was so outraged, SO here goes, I have been a major horror fan for 25years after seeing carpenter's Halloween at 10years old, I own literally thousands of horrors and seen even more,house of a 1000 corpses is one of the most original and wonderfully deranged horrors I've seen in years, it's like a horror movie version of natural born killers, with all the bad found footage and slasher crap that's churned out Rob zombie has created a horror freak show, Just like Texas chainsaw massacre wasn't fully appreciated​ on release I firmly believe this will become a cult classic!!,Sid Haig's brand of dark humour is priceless and bill Mosely is just so cool, As if that's not enough you have the ridiculously sexy Sheri moon, There are horror creations in this that I have NEVER seen in any other movie, if you like it dark and twisted then you will LOVE THIS!!!!!!