House of 1000 Corpses

2003 film by Rob Zombie

House of 1000 Corpses is an American black comedy horror movie. Rob Zombie wrote and directed the movie. It is Rob Zombie's first movie. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Karen Black, Rainn Wilson, Chris Hardwick, Tom Towles, Erin Daniels, Jennifer Jostyn, Walton Goggins, and Dennis Fimple are in it. The movie is about a group of teenagers who are kidnapped and tortured by a family on Halloween.

House of 1000 Corpses
Directed byRob Zombie
Written byRob Zombie
Produced byAndy Gould
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
  • Kathryn Himoff
  • Robert K. Lambert
  • Sean K. Lambert
Music by
Production
company
Goodrights[1]
Distributed byLions Gate Films[1]
Release date
  • April 11, 2003 (2003-04-11)
Running time
89 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7 million
Box office$16.8 million[3]

Movies such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977) inspired Zombie.[4] He made House of 1000 Corpses while making a haunted house for Universal Studios Hollywood. He filmed the movie in Universal Studios and Valencia, California in 2000.[5][6] Universal did not want to release the movie because they thought it would be rated NC-17.[5][7] Zombie sold the movie rights to Lions Gate Entertainment, and they released the movie in April 2003.[8] Many movie critics did not like it, but it made over $16 million.[9][10] The movie has two sequels: The Devil's Rejects (2005) and 3 from Hell (2019).

References

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  3. "House of 1000 Corpses (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 11, 2019. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
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  5. 5.0 5.1 Szulkin, David. "Death to False Horror". Fangoria (199): 20–25.
  6. "Rob Zombie - Christian Divine". Christiandivine.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  7. "Rob Zombie announces new movie '3I': Rocking dead". May 18, 2014. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  8. "Rob Zombie's 'House of 1000 Corpses' Finds A Home". MTV. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  9. "House of 1000 Corpses". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  10. "Metacritic House of 1000 Corpses". Metacritic. Archived from the original on October 31, 2015. Retrieved 2024-06-29.