It's an okay movie. The problem is, you can't just regurgitate a story word for word, scene for scene. Change the story and up the ante, don't send me that homage bullshit. I'd venture a guess and say Corpses is 60% TCM, and 30% every other movie of the 70's.

1000 corpses wasnt an homage really ...

its like a guy who lived for those kinds of movies so he wanted to make one just like it ...
i dont think zombie made any bones about it ...
he just applied his own vision to the same theme (insane backwoods freaks terrorizing and killing people)


there have been a lot of movies where i would say after - i wish there were more movies like this ... thats how i felt about 1000 corpses.
i never left thinking - 'that guy tried to pass this film off like he invented the idea' ...

i liked it but I have seen better

The trouble with this and several other recent movies is the influence of films like TCM and The Hills Have Eyes is so glaringly obvious it sells more like a product than a piece of art.

Dusty desert-scape scenery? Check.

Deranged, murderous "family"? Check.

Lots of screaming, doomed teens in peril? Check check.

Throw in some familiar horror/cult actors, a dark/gothic heavy metaller-type director and experimental ("unsettling"?) camerawork and you're good to go - the latest Return To Hardcore Horror.

It all seems rather strained to me - doubtless the kids will love it, but I would prefer less "knowing" plagiarism in future and some more original ideas not requiring so much... madcap craziness? (The supposedly creepy imagery in House of 1000 Corpses really made no impact whatsoever).

Jorg Buttgereit and Eric Stanze's work is far less derivative with the power to shock and disturb without resorting to this kind of thing.

I just have to say, I do appreciate Zombie for what he's done. The fact is, maybe this will open up Hollywood for true horror movies, where they are actually hardcore horror and not Scream(which I like) or PG13 crap fests where they try to scare you by sudden jumps and other cheap tricks..

This is exactly why i love the movie. It's one of those where i lay in bed the night after i've seen it and think about how would i have acted if put in the main character (good guys) suituation.

Maybe it's only me that does that, but i liked this movie.

At least, like The Blair Witch Project, Scream and Ring, this movie makes enough impact to fuel discussion of a possible new direction of the horror genre.

Even if that new direction may involve digging up old ideas and selling them to a new or retro audience...

I just picked this movie up because I will probably go see "Devil's Rejects" in couple weeks. I gotta see part 1 before part 2. I'll review it later tonight.

DAMN fine movie!

Yes...it took many ideas from "TCM", "TCM 2", "Funhouse", "Deranged", "Tourist Trap" etc etc...But so what?
It played around with many ideas as do most horror films.
Yet Zombie still styled these elements into something that was it's own film, has many of it's own tricks and visual stylings and managed to (as far as anyone can in this environment and the way the industry is today) deliver some of the feeling and appeal of those 70's Drive-In films.

Of course no multi million dollar, made in the multi-plex world, film can ever be like those pioneering titles...But (with a budget $21 million dollars less than the new "Dawn" and $2.5 million less than the new "Texas Chainsaw" and far less spent on advertising) this is about as close as you will get.

Rob Zombie brought his own love of horror, his sense of carnival showmanship and his rock n roll stylings to HIS film. So what!
When YOU direct a movie YOU can bring yourself to it. And what's wrong with that!?

There was sometimes an overuse of the flashy edit...but in general the deranged 'video' montages of the Family's psychotic activity's and lifestyle worked very well in showing what they were like but without slowing down or diverting from the main plot.
And they contained some GREAT images! Not least of which were the bloodied and battered Cheerleaders and 'Baby' kissing and playing with the skeletal corpse.

The mad back roads atmosphere was captured better than it has been in many years, and the grotesque backroads carnival haunt of Capt Spaulding was just perfect!
As were the 'video' images of the serial killers as the tourists went through the exhibit. I for one love this kind of backroads/dust bowl psycho romp!!

Zombie perhaps had too many characters (you could have easily lost the tow truck guy Rufus, and just have Tiny or Otis do it) in the Family...But hey! At least he gave us the best damn Family since the truly superb (and untouchable) family in "TCM".
We had some wonderfully deranged set-pieces with them, and some great dialogue. And just how damn entertaining was Capt Spaulding?! Great work from Sid "Spider Baby" Haig!

Lets pile on more goodness...The excellent finale in the underground charnel house! The scene of Dr Satan's experiments bursting from the muddied water and ripping the coffin apart was one of the best realised scenes seen in a horror film for many a year.
The nasty idea was top notch exploitation too! All those deformed, menatally warped 'things' in that cess pit as the crazy Doc (a wonderful looking creation) experiments on screaming victims!!...Top work.

And the scene of the daughter being kiseed by the dead skin mask of her own father was sheer exploitation joy!

Then we have the 'will not to bow down to the crowd pleasing, cop-put crap of "Wrong Turn"' attitude where the hip star has to be saved after only receiving a little, itty bitty scratch!

This was a rock 'n' roll, carnival tinged, purposely over the top fan homage that never tried to make out it was a completley original work and never tried to hide the fact it WAS playing with the ideas from other film's of that ilk...
It knew it was..Zombie knew it was...And he assumed that fans of these films would be happy to see these ideas being used in a repectful and well made way...which is what THIS fan at least thought he did do..and was very thankful for it.

Sadly others would rather wallow in name leeching re-make movies and poorly thought out cop-out stuff like "Wrong Turn" while spitting venom at Rob Zombie for creating one of the best and most satisfying and *shock* nasty horror films in the past decade.
It's a hell of a shame!

I watched this movie tonight with a grim disturbing look on my face for an hour and half... It wasnt because I thought this movie was bad... It was because this movie is pretty good with all its disturbing imagery. The sick and gross imagery were amazing. It never really lets up either. And yes, it does take certain aspects of TCM but does that mean there should never be another movie with some psychotic murdering family?? Ofcourse not, thats ridiculous. Just consider it a sub-genre such as the crazed hillbillies or something. There arent many of these types of crazed family movies around and I think there should be more. The different type of characters were pretty cool as well... I thought Baby was great. Whats bad about this movie was the constant flashes of another scene... It wasnt necessary as much as they did it but it was good. I also would like to sympathize more with the victims because I really didnt know them that well and therefore I really didnt care if they died. Nevertheless, this movie is good and its definetly worth a rent.... Im definetly going to check out "The Devil's Rejects" now. I give it an 8/10 because the movie is pretty sick and its good to see a movie taken to an R level. Im lil surprise that lot of people bashed it.