I saw the movie this past weekend.
Hmmmmmm.....
Reminds me a lot about "Signs".
Not that the 2 movies were similar, but that just like "Signs" borrowed heavily from one of my all time favorite movies, "Night of the Living Dead".
Rob Zombie's movie borrowed heavily from The Texas Chainsaw massacre movies. Even to the point where he used one of the acters of the "Leather Face" movies in his own. "Ottis"....
I think "House of 1000 Corpses" failed at capturing the atmosphere that made the Leather Face movies so scary.
Even the Blair Witch Project borrowed from this suffocating feeling of despair introduced in the original T.C.M. movie.
Rob shot himself on the foot when he went over-board in trying to give his characters that psychotic theme.
The biggest draw back were the sketches and outsourced scenes thrown in through out the entire movie. It killed that atmospheric feeling of despare that even the Blair Witch made mills from.
But my biggest problem with this movie was the over-done psychotic characters. That country girl was more stupid than convincing. And even Ottis tried to damn hard to come off as the psycho he once was in T.C.M. 2....
Watch the T.C.M. - The new Generation to see what Rob Zombie was tryin to accomplish with his attempt at creating a demented family....
Even with all the negativity in my post, I still liked this movie.
Captain Spaulding is the shit!
Fuck Dr. Satan and Ottis! Spaulding is what House of 1000 Corpses needs to be about.
Rob should've picked up on this the first time this dude put on the clown make up.
This Spaulding guy has attitude to go with his psychopathic charisma....
Captain Spaulding should've been the leading character in this movie, but oh well....
We'll see what happens in the sequal....
PS.... I should say that maybe this movie's some what failure is due to Hollywood's "Keep it rated R" policy.
It looks like Rob held back on quite a lot, the movie felt like it was missin a lot of shit.
Maybe the director's cut will do Rob's vision the justice it might deserve....
We'll have to wait and see....