Rob Zombie is the heavy metal hero who has released such albums as SINISTER URGE and HELLBILLY DELUXE as a solo act, and ASTRO-CREEP 2000 with his band, White Zombie. Here, he takes on the world of horror movies in this very bloody, very entertaining tale. The old car-trouble scenario comes in handy, as a group of unsuspecting travelers must spend the night in a place of demented evil--in this case, it's the Museum of Monsters and Madmen. Zombie makes the movie work for the same reason his music career has been so successful: He knows he's going way over the top, and he's not afraid to go as far as he can. So, eager viewers should put their tongues in their cheeks and go along for the raunchy ride.
The always beguiling Karen Black, who starred in one of the all-time great horror classics, BURNT OFFERINGS, turns in another terrifically offbeat performance as Mother Firefly, the marvelous matriarch of a murderous family. Other fabulously gruesome characters include the crazy clown Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) and the oddball "lady killer" Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley); Marx Brothers fans should note that many of Zombie's characters are named after roles played by Groucho. One of the advertising lines for the movie calls it "positively the most horrifying film ever made!" Zombie does his best to try to live up to that demanding tag, upping the gore quotient with numerous inventive killings that involve lots of blood and innards.
Theatrical Release: APRIL 11, 2003
Blu-ray Disc Features:
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital DTS 7.1 HD Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commmentary - Director's Commentary
Interviews: Cast & Crew Interviews
Clips & Highlights:
1. Casting Footage
2. Rehearsal Footage
Featurette: Making of Featurette
Interactive Features:
Interactive Games: ESCAPE FROM ZOMBIE MOUNTAIN
Stars
Bill Moseley: Actor
Karen Black: American Actress
Sid Haig: Actor
Chris Hardwick: L.A. radio personality and host of MTV's "Singled Out"
Erin Daniels: Actress, THE L WORD
Jennifer Jostyn: Actress/"Omega Cop"
Michael J. Pollard: American Character Actor
Sheri Moon: Actress, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES (2001)
Tom Towels: Actor, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES (2001)
Director
Rob Zombie: Musician/film director, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS
Producer
Andy Gould: Producer, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES (2001)
Screenwriter
Rob Zombie: Musician/film director, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS
Composer
Rob Zombie: Musician/film director, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS
Director of Photography
Tom Fraser: Director of Photography, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES (2001)
Review 1:
"Rocker Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES is at once a work of demonic brilliance and of wretched excess that could serve as a timely, savagely comic metaphor for the darkest impulses of the American psyche..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.C4 04/14/2003
Review 2:
"...This is everything you'd expect from a Rob Zombie flick, a junk artefact peopled by colourful sickos..."
Source: Total Film
p.102 11/01/2003