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.
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
A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.
Director:
Sean S. Cunningham
Stars:
Betsy Palmer,
Adrienne King,
Jeannine Taylor
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.
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
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Director:
David Gordon Green
Stars:
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Judy Greer,
Andi Matichak
In "House of 1000 Corpses", two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the 1000+ horrors that await.Written by
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Captain Spauldings car is a 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible [62675]. 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 original 105 minute version is out there somewhere but has yet to surface. Rob Zombie has stated that the material is not available. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen. It should be noted however that Zombie willingly cut most of the footage described below while the film was shelved and looking for a distributor. In fact, very little was removed to get an R-rating. See more »
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.