Rotten
Zombie wants his film to be gleefully demented, but he fails to grasp that loud, inbred evil people torturing stupid, grating benign people isn't disturbing as much as tedious.
Dan Fienberg, L.A. Weekly
House of 1000 Corpses
The most shocking tale of carnage ever seen.
2003 · 1h 29m · R
Horror
Directed by
Rob Zombie
Overview
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Director and cast
- Rob Zombie Director
- Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding
- Bill Moseley as Otis B. Driftwood
- Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby Firefly
- Karen Black as Mother Firefly
- Erin Daniels as Denise Willis
- Chris Hardwick as Jerry Goldsmith
- Rainn Wilson as Bill Hudley
- Jennifer Jostyn as Mary Knowles
- Tom Towles as Lieutenant George Wydell
- Walton Goggins as Deputy Steve Naish
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Possibly the greatest waste of celluloid since Jerry Lewis was first allowed to stand before a camera.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Rotten
In this field of endeavour, any intense reaction is unsustainable, for the obvious reason that the guiding principle of repetition comes with an inevitable corollary and unavoidable side-effect -- sheer boredom.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
House of 1000 Corpses isn't coherent, exactly, but what dripping-ghoul horror movie is these days?
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
A cobwebbed, mummified horror entry that makes obvious, cartoonishly grotesque demands for attention.
Scott Foundas, Variety
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