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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 11 April, 2003 DVD Release : 12 August, 2003 |
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House of 1,000 Corpses description It's sick! It's twisted! It's House of 1,000 Corpses, and it's more fun than a wholesome bowl of "Agatha Crispies"! Dropped by two studios (Universal and MGM) and doomed to obscurity until Lions Gate Films gave it a limited theatrical release, Rob Zombie's gonzo horror flick is a blood-spattered throwback to the gore-fests of the '70s, lending new meaning to the term "box-office gross." Most critics misunderstood this unbridled exercise in graphic style and violence, but for devoted horror buffs it's a refreshing rebuttal to the comparatively "polite" frights of the post-Scream era. While paying homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, Motel Hell, and other gory classics, Zombie's ramshackle plot (two young couples are terrorized by an inbred family of homicidal maniacs) lacks a crucial sense of dread, but his pastiche of vivid colors, grainy fetish-films, and photo-negative imagery is guaranteed to hold your attention. A bona-fide cult item, this House is definitely worth a visit... if you dare. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Funnier than intended CORPSES just potty-mouthed pranks |
| Sid Haig rules over this DVD incarnation of the waaay over-rated Rob Zombie's disjointed attempt at direction. The DVD splash screen can be left to run awhile as Sid's character keeps getting madder at you, the viewer, for not hitting the PLAY button.
Lots of good ol' scariness, but just rotten-as-corpses-continuity through much of it, and the uncredited appearance of 60's icon Michael J. Pollard should have been better thought out than to make him a local corn pone caught on the toilet who does as obscene a bad dialogue with Haig as any amateur on smack; Pollard should have the decency to just hang himself in a Motel 6 shower as a career-ending apology to those of us who once thought that he was cool. Karen Black plays the psycho mommy among a good bunch of flesh-rending cannibals, insane backwoods cretins and sub-humans... and does it a good turn, so kudos to Karen for keeping her indie roots true. But the unintentionally funny appearance of THE OFFICE's Dwight as one of the young quartet of victims is a hoot. Sid Haig has too many blank spots to fill in with his own dialogue that he eats up those moments with profane and goofy babble, but for Sid, it sure is funny stuff. As a nightmarish flick, well done, but could've been better edited, really, by a high schooler doin' a Youtube video. Some good gobs of gore, but all of it is retreads. "...and don't forgit your complimentary fried chicken!" No thanks; i'll pass. |
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