Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
Director:
Rob Zombie
Stars:
Sheri Moon Zombie,
Meg Foster,
Bruce Davison
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, hellish compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Director:
Rob Zombie
Stars:
Malcolm McDowell,
Richard Brake,
Jeff Daniel Phillips
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.
Director:
Rob Zombie
Stars:
Scout Taylor-Compton,
Malcolm McDowell,
Tyler Mane
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths and must survive the terrors of Leatherface and his family.
The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.
Director:
Wes Craven
Stars:
Heather Langenkamp,
Johnny Depp,
Robert Englund
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director:
John Carpenter
Stars:
Donald Pleasence,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Tony Moran
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Director:
Marcus Nispel
Stars:
Jessica Biel,
Jonathan Tucker,
Andrew Bryniarski
A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp where, years before, it was the site of a child's drowning and a grisly double murder.
Director:
Sean S. Cunningham
Stars:
Betsy Palmer,
Adrienne King,
Jeannine Taylor
On the eve of Halloween, on October 1977, four friends--Bill, Jerry, Mary, and Denise--embark on an exciting cross-country road trip to write a guidebook about offbeat roadside attractions in America's less-travelled roads. Before long, the young explorers chance upon Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, only to become infatuated with the local legend of a deranged serial-killer doctor, and cross paths with the mysterious hitchhiker, Baby. However, when the unsuspecting group meets Baby's eccentric family after having a flat tyre, an endless night of terror, torture, and murder ensues. Has anyone ever got out alive from the House of Thousand Corpses?Written by
Nick Riganas
The actual house is the same used in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), which can be viewed during Universal Studios' tram ride. However, during filming Universal refused to stop the tram tours, which delayed filming during many scenes. See more »
Goofs
When the side window of the car driven by the four victims is broken, it's regular pane glass, yet cars of that age use tempered glass. Later scenes of the same car with broken windows also show broken tempered glass. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Announcer:
Attention boils and ghouls, it's time for Dr. Wolfenstein's Creature Feature Show.
Dr. Wolfenstein:
Ah! The doctor is in! Don't scream, don't move. Stay tuned for channel 68's Halloween Eve movie marathon! I'm your host, your ghost ghost, with the most, Dr. Wolfenstein! I will be with you until the end!
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Crazy Credits
After the last scene, the words "The End?" are shown. See more »
Alternate Versions
The full version shown at the Argentinian film festival:
A slightly different version of Captain Spauling's story about Dr. Satan. He never says what Dr. Satan's real name was (leading to a scene described below).
A scene in the back of the car where Baby accuses Mary and Denise of being lesbians.
The "creation of Fishboy" snuff video is omitted (this was shot much later, after the film was shelved in fact).
An extended version of Denise, Jerry, and Mary are tied up in the living room, where it is revealed that Grampa Hugo is Dr. Satan.
Baby only stabs Mary four times.
An entirely different version of the "underground" scenes: Instead of finding Dr. Satan and The Professor in the operating room, Denise finds it full of Dr. Satan's experiments, which have Jerry strapped down and are eating him. Denise is chased through the tunnel by the ghouls.
In a nighttime prologue, crews in biohazard suits exhume the skeletons in the Firefly's backyard.
The original ending of Denise getting picked up by Captain Spaulding driving a red covertable, was that Spaulding was originally driving a large delivery truck which ended when his assistant, Ravini, appeared again from the back of the truck, grabs Denise, and pulls her back into the truck which is lit with red light.
Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
Written by Buck Owens
Performed by Buck Owens
Courtesy of Buck Owens Productions
Used by permission of Sony/ATV Songs LLC
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Being a big fan of old school horror from the 1930s to the 1970s I had high hopes for 'House Of 1000 Corpses'. I'm no Rob Zombie fan but I know he has cool taste in movies ('Night Of The Living Dead', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', 'Dawn Of The Dead', 'Spider Baby', 'Phantasm',etc.), even taking his bands name from the Bela Lugosi classic 'White Zombie'. The word was that 'House...' was a homage to 70s horror and was so extreme it wasn't going to be released. I was expecting a gritty, grainy documentary-style movie in the tradition of 'The Last House On The Left' and 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'. Instead it's like an MTV version of 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2'. It's basically a ridiculously over the top schlocky horror comedy. Anyone who truly believes this is like the 70s classics it claims to be inspired by has no idea what they're talking about! 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' and 'The Hills Have Eyes' may have some black humour in them and occasionally border on the ridiculous, but for the most part they have a sense of realism that makes them genuinely disturbing. 'House Of 1000 Corpses' is anything but. I just thought it was stupid, and the waste of a great cast, led by the legendary Sid Haig ('Spider Baby' and several other Jack Hill exploitation movies) and including 70s faves Karen Black and Michael J. Pollard, Bill "Chop Top" Moseley, and Tom Towles (Otis in 'Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer'). Look, I think most horror movies made these days suck, especially all the seen-it-all-before post-'I Know What You Did Last Summer' slashers, but 'House Of 1000 Corpses' is NOT the savior of contemporary horror. To me it's just as lousy as the movies it is supposedly fighting against, but in a different way.
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Being a big fan of old school horror from the 1930s to the 1970s I had high hopes for 'House Of 1000 Corpses'. I'm no Rob Zombie fan but I know he has cool taste in movies ('Night Of The Living Dead', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', 'Dawn Of The Dead', 'Spider Baby', 'Phantasm',etc.), even taking his bands name from the Bela Lugosi classic 'White Zombie'. The word was that 'House...' was a homage to 70s horror and was so extreme it wasn't going to be released. I was expecting a gritty, grainy documentary-style movie in the tradition of 'The Last House On The Left' and 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'. Instead it's like an MTV version of 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2'. It's basically a ridiculously over the top schlocky horror comedy. Anyone who truly believes this is like the 70s classics it claims to be inspired by has no idea what they're talking about! 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' and 'The Hills Have Eyes' may have some black humour in them and occasionally border on the ridiculous, but for the most part they have a sense of realism that makes them genuinely disturbing. 'House Of 1000 Corpses' is anything but. I just thought it was stupid, and the waste of a great cast, led by the legendary Sid Haig ('Spider Baby' and several other Jack Hill exploitation movies) and including 70s faves Karen Black and Michael J. Pollard, Bill "Chop Top" Moseley, and Tom Towles (Otis in 'Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer'). Look, I think most horror movies made these days suck, especially all the seen-it-all-before post-'I Know What You Did Last Summer' slashers, but 'House Of 1000 Corpses' is NOT the savior of contemporary horror. To me it's just as lousy as the movies it is supposedly fighting against, but in a different way.