The 20th anniversary of writer/director Rob Zombie’s feature directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here) came and went last year – but today, Zombie took to social media to announce that he’s celebrating the 21st anniversary of the film by working on a book about the making of it! Zombie also shared multiple behind-the-scenes images, and you can check those out at the bottom of this article.
Zombie wrote, “To celebrate the 21st anniversary of House of 1000 Corpses being released I thought I would give you a sneak peek at the House of 1000 Corpses book that I have been working on. This thing is packed with rare photos, blueprints, storyboards, makeup tests and my original script with all my handwritten notes and sketches. So much stuff for all you Corpse-Heads! Coming your way soon.”
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: Two young...
Zombie wrote, “To celebrate the 21st anniversary of House of 1000 Corpses being released I thought I would give you a sneak peek at the House of 1000 Corpses book that I have been working on. This thing is packed with rare photos, blueprints, storyboards, makeup tests and my original script with all my handwritten notes and sketches. So much stuff for all you Corpse-Heads! Coming your way soon.”
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: Two young...
- 4/12/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is going on tour this summer. During an appearance on ‘Good Morning America’, the rapper confirmed that she’ll be hitting the road soon in support of her forthcoming third album, reports Variety.
“Oh, we’re having the tour this year. The Hot Girl Summer tour is going to be 2024, summertime,” she said. “I feel like I’ve never been able to be outside doing my own thing during the summer, since like 2019. So this is going to be the first time that I drop an album on time for the summer. I do want to give the hotties the Megan Thee Stallion experience.”
As per Variety, Stallion also spoke about her return to the spotlight after she was shot in the foot by Tory Lanez in 2020. Lanez’s trial ended in December 2022 and he was sentenced in August 2023 to 10 years in prison.
“It was really...
“Oh, we’re having the tour this year. The Hot Girl Summer tour is going to be 2024, summertime,” she said. “I feel like I’ve never been able to be outside doing my own thing during the summer, since like 2019. So this is going to be the first time that I drop an album on time for the summer. I do want to give the hotties the Megan Thee Stallion experience.”
As per Variety, Stallion also spoke about her return to the spotlight after she was shot in the foot by Tory Lanez in 2020. Lanez’s trial ended in December 2022 and he was sentenced in August 2023 to 10 years in prison.
“It was really...
- 2/1/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of writer/director Rob Zombie’s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here), and to celebrate the occasion the folks at Neca have announced that they’ll be releasing new action figures based on the Captain Spaulding and Otis characters! These figures won’t be shipping out until March of 2024 – so actually, in time for the film’s 21st anniversary – but you can already check them out on the Neca website. Captain Spaulding can be found Here and Otis is over Here.
Here’s the info on the new Captain Spaulding action figure: Stop by Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen — it’s fun for the whole family! (If you’re the Manson family!) Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Rob Zombie’s movie House of 1000 Corpses, which featured gas, food, murder, and the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen.
Here’s the info on the new Captain Spaulding action figure: Stop by Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen — it’s fun for the whole family! (If you’re the Manson family!) Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Rob Zombie’s movie House of 1000 Corpses, which featured gas, food, murder, and the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen.
- 12/11/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of writer/director Rob Zombie’s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here), and today we’re celebrating the film’s anniversary with a video that digs into The Best Scene in the movie! You can check it out in the embed above.
The scene we’ve chosen to feature in this video is the opening sequence that involves Captain Spaulding, brought to life through an iconic performance from Sid Haig, dealing with a pair of dimwitted armed robbers who have come busting into his gas station / murder museum.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: 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...
The scene we’ve chosen to feature in this video is the opening sequence that involves Captain Spaulding, brought to life through an iconic performance from Sid Haig, dealing with a pair of dimwitted armed robbers who have come busting into his gas station / murder museum.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: 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...
- 10/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of writer/director Rob Zombie’s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here), and to celebrate the occasion Lionsgate gave the film a new Blu-ray release and Trick or Treat Studios is selling a House of 1000 Corpses coloring book. Now Fathom Events has announced that they will be giving the film a theatrical re-release for two nights this Halloween season, on October 8th and October 11th.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: 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.
The film stars Sid Haig, Erin Daniels, Bill Moseley, Karen Black, Sheri Moon Zombie, Rainn Wilson,...
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: 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.
The film stars Sid Haig, Erin Daniels, Bill Moseley, Karen Black, Sheri Moon Zombie, Rainn Wilson,...
- 8/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Yesterday, we shared the news that the Netflix streaming service is publishing coloring books inspired by their shows Stranger Things, Squid Game, Bridgerton, and Castlevania. Whether or not any of those interested you, maybe this one will: Trick or Treat Studios is now selling a coloring book inspired by writer/director Rob Zombie‘s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here) – a movie that happens to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of its theatrical release this year! Copies of Trick or Treat Studios’ House of 1000 Corpses coloring book go for the price of $11.99 and can be ordered at This Link.
A lot more House of 1000 Corpses items can be found on Trick or Treat Studios website, and they have a couple The Devil’s Rejects items as well.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: Two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads...
A lot more House of 1000 Corpses items can be found on Trick or Treat Studios website, and they have a couple The Devil’s Rejects items as well.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: Two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads...
- 8/3/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Before becoming one of the most divisive filmmakers in horror with the likes of Halloween and The Munsters, Rob Zombie was just a musician trying his hand at the film industry. House of 1000 Corpses came together fairly quickly following a failed attempt to reboot The Crow, but the rock star’s Hollywood career almost never was due to post-production controversy that left his directorial debut on the shelf for three years.
Production on Corpses was completed in 2000 before Universal Studios refused to release it due to its objectionable content. MGM later came on board to distribute it in 2002 until a tongue-in-cheek remark by Zombie caused them to cancel the deal. Finally, Lions Gate signed on and released it in April of 2003, launching Zombie’s film career as well as a franchise that would be followed by 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects and 2019’s 3 from Hell.
Unsure if he’d ever...
Production on Corpses was completed in 2000 before Universal Studios refused to release it due to its objectionable content. MGM later came on board to distribute it in 2002 until a tongue-in-cheek remark by Zombie caused them to cancel the deal. Finally, Lions Gate signed on and released it in April of 2003, launching Zombie’s film career as well as a franchise that would be followed by 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects and 2019’s 3 from Hell.
Unsure if he’d ever...
- 5/5/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Warning: The following contains spoilers about Season 3, Episode 7 of Ted Lasso.
Sam’s dad is a sight for sore eyes when he finally arrives in Wednesday’s Ted Lasso — an episode that sees Sam’s sunny disposition challenged like never before.
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The midfielder barely bats an eye when Simi fills him in on Brinda Barot’s anti-refugee rhetoric. He suggests that “someone could try and speak to the the better angels...
Sam’s dad is a sight for sore eyes when he finally arrives in Wednesday’s Ted Lasso — an episode that sees Sam’s sunny disposition challenged like never before.
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The midfielder barely bats an eye when Simi fills him in on Brinda Barot’s anti-refugee rhetoric. He suggests that “someone could try and speak to the the better angels...
- 4/26/2023
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Back in February, we learned that Lionsgate is giving writer/director Rob Zombie‘s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here) a new Blu-ray release to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary on April 11th. There will be a standard edition of the House of 1000 Corpses 20th anniversary Blu-ray and a steelbook edition that will be exclusive to Best Buy. Both editions will include a disc that’s full of new bonus features, but a New Director’s Commentary will only be accessible on digital platforms. Zombie took to Instagram to reveal that he was recording that new commentary yesterday.
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- 3/23/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
It’s time for a new episode of The Manson Brothers Show, the video series hosted by the writers/stars of the horror comedy The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre – Chris Margetis (Stone Manson) and Mike Carey (Skull Manson)! In this one, the Boys are discussing writer/director Rob Zombie’s twisted road trip movie The Devil’s Rejects (watch it Here). To find out what they had to say about the film, check out the video embedded above!
The Devil’s Rejects has the following synopsis: After a raid on the rural home of the psychopathic Firefly family, two members of the clan, Otis and Baby, manage to flee the scene. Heading to a remote desert motel, the killers reunite with Baby’s father, Capt. Spaulding, who is equally demented and intent on maintaining their murder spree. While the trio continues to torment and kill various victims, the vengeful Sheriff Wydell slowly closes in on them.
The Devil’s Rejects has the following synopsis: After a raid on the rural home of the psychopathic Firefly family, two members of the clan, Otis and Baby, manage to flee the scene. Heading to a remote desert motel, the killers reunite with Baby’s father, Capt. Spaulding, who is equally demented and intent on maintaining their murder spree. While the trio continues to torment and kill various victims, the vengeful Sheriff Wydell slowly closes in on them.
- 3/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get enough of Tim Burton’s quirky and visually stunning films. Burton’s unique style and offbeat sense of humor have made him a beloved figure in the world of cinema.
So, we thought it would be fun to rank the Tim Burton movies list from best to worst. Of course, ranking movies is subjective, what we think is “best” may differ from others’ opinions.. But we’ve taken a few different factors like box office gross, IMDb rating, and Rotten Tomatoes audience score into account to come up with a list that we hope will spark some lively discussions.
In this article, we’ll be ranking the best and worst movies on the Tim Burton movies list. We’ll give you a brief synopsis of each movie, along with our take on its strengths and weaknesses. So, settle in, and...
So, we thought it would be fun to rank the Tim Burton movies list from best to worst. Of course, ranking movies is subjective, what we think is “best” may differ from others’ opinions.. But we’ve taken a few different factors like box office gross, IMDb rating, and Rotten Tomatoes audience score into account to come up with a list that we hope will spark some lively discussions.
In this article, we’ll be ranking the best and worst movies on the Tim Burton movies list. We’ll give you a brief synopsis of each movie, along with our take on its strengths and weaknesses. So, settle in, and...
- 2/17/2023
- by Dee Gambit
- buddytv.com
April 11, 2023 will mark the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of writer/director Rob Zombie‘s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here) – and to celebrate the occasion, Lionsgate is giving the film a new Blu-ray release!
The standard edition of the House of 1000 Corpses 20th anniversary Blu-ray will come with All-new packaging from artists hand-picked by Rob Zombie, Illustrated outerbox by Graham Humphreys, Illustrated poster by David Hartman, 60-page photo book created by Rob Zombie himself with illustrations by Graham Humphreys, and 6 Illustrated Art Cards by David Hartman. You can see an image of the set below, courtesy of Target.
Best Buy will be carrying an exclusive steelbook edition of the House of 1000 Corpses 20th anniversary Blu-ray, and you can see the steelbook art at the bottom of this article.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: Two young couples take a misguided tour...
The standard edition of the House of 1000 Corpses 20th anniversary Blu-ray will come with All-new packaging from artists hand-picked by Rob Zombie, Illustrated outerbox by Graham Humphreys, Illustrated poster by David Hartman, 60-page photo book created by Rob Zombie himself with illustrations by Graham Humphreys, and 6 Illustrated Art Cards by David Hartman. You can see an image of the set below, courtesy of Target.
Best Buy will be carrying an exclusive steelbook edition of the House of 1000 Corpses 20th anniversary Blu-ray, and you can see the steelbook art at the bottom of this article.
House of 1000 Corpses has the following synopsis: Two young couples take a misguided tour...
- 2/14/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A couple days ago, writer/director Rob Zombie shared an image from the alternate ending to his feature directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here). An ending that would have shown Sid Haig’s character Captain Spaulding giving a ride to final girl Denise (Erin Daniels) in his Museum of Monsters and Madmen truck. In the film, Spaulding gave Denise a ride in a convertible – and Otis (Bill Moseley) was revealed to be in the backseat. In the deleted ending, Denise would’ve been dragged into the back of the truck by Spaulding’s pal Ravelli (Irwin Keyes). Zombie has now shared another image from the alternate ending that shows Haig and Daniels in the truck, before Ravelli emerges from the back.
Unfortunately, it’s not likely we’ll ever see footage of this alternate ending, because all of the cut scenes were lost while the movie was passed from studio to studio.
Unfortunately, it’s not likely we’ll ever see footage of this alternate ending, because all of the cut scenes were lost while the movie was passed from studio to studio.
- 12/2/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The screenplay for Rob Zombie’s feature directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here) can be found online, and is quite different from the film that made it to theatres in 2003. Not only was Grampa Hugo revealed to be Dr. Satan, but there are scenes in the script that were filmed and cut – and Zombie has no access to the footage, as it was lost while the movie was passed from studio to studio. Among the differences is an alternate ending… and Zombie took to Instagram to share a rare still from the film’s original ending! In this image, we see Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen truck:
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The movie ends with Captain Spaulding giving final girl Denise a ride in a convertible. Otis rises from the backseat with a knife – and then Denise...
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The movie ends with Captain Spaulding giving final girl Denise a ride in a convertible. Otis rises from the backseat with a knife – and then Denise...
- 11/30/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Last year, Trick or Treat Studios released a 5″ tall action figure of the character Captain Spaulding from Rob Zombie‘s feature directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses (watch it Here) – and you can purchase the Captain Spaulding figure, which is called the “Finger Lickin’ Pistol Whippin’ Captain Spaulding action figure”, at This Link. Now Trick or Treat Studios is accepting pre-orders for four more House of 1000 Corpses action figures: Showtime Baby Firefly (who is accompanied by Fishboy), Rabbit Roastin’ Otis Driftwood, Rippin’ Axe Professor, and Driller Killer Doctor Satan. These figures can be pre-ordered at This Link.
The House of 1000 Corpses figures are each sold separately, and there’s also a collector’s case available for purchase. If you order all of the new figures and the collector’s case, you’ll have all the pieces you need to assemble another figure: the Build-a-Figure Tiny Firefly! Tiny’s...
The House of 1000 Corpses figures are each sold separately, and there’s also a collector’s case available for purchase. If you order all of the new figures and the collector’s case, you’ll have all the pieces you need to assemble another figure: the Build-a-Figure Tiny Firefly! Tiny’s...
- 9/20/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
[To get you into the spooky spirit, the Daily Dead team is spotlighting double features that we think would be fun to watch this Halloween season. Check here for more double feature recommendations and other Halloween 2017 coverage.]
In horror movies, things usually go so very wrong on October 31st when it comes to the Halloween-themed offerings of the genre. But what about the night before? October 30th, or “Devil’s Night”, can also bring about its own horrific consequences, which is the theme I went with when it came time to put together my double feature of Alex Proyas’ The Crow and Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses. Both are coincidentally feature film debuts for each director, they feature killer soundtracks, and this pair of films is also centered around a storyline where the characters will never be the same after their experiences on the night before Halloween.
Based on the comic by James O'Barr, The Crow finds aspiring rock star Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) rising from the grave a year after his death to take revenge on the four thugs (David Patrick Kelly, Angel David,...
In horror movies, things usually go so very wrong on October 31st when it comes to the Halloween-themed offerings of the genre. But what about the night before? October 30th, or “Devil’s Night”, can also bring about its own horrific consequences, which is the theme I went with when it came time to put together my double feature of Alex Proyas’ The Crow and Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses. Both are coincidentally feature film debuts for each director, they feature killer soundtracks, and this pair of films is also centered around a storyline where the characters will never be the same after their experiences on the night before Halloween.
Based on the comic by James O'Barr, The Crow finds aspiring rock star Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) rising from the grave a year after his death to take revenge on the four thugs (David Patrick Kelly, Angel David,...
- 10/30/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The Devil’s Rejects aren’t exactly living up to their name, as Rob Zombie plans to continue their story. Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that the horror-inclined filmmaker will make a trilogy of the saga that began with “House of 1000 Corpses,” Zombie’s directorial debut; how he plans to do that remains a mystery, as (spoiler alert) “The Devil’s Rejects” ended with the eponymous clan of killers dead.
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Bd notes that, “while we don’t know any of the story details, we’re expecting it to be another spinoff or possibly a prequel, being that the Firefly family is presumed dead.” In the 12 years since “Rejects” was released, Zombie has directed two “Halloween” movies, “The Lords of Salem,” and last year’s “31.”
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Bd notes that, “while we don’t know any of the story details, we’re expecting it to be another spinoff or possibly a prequel, being that the Firefly family is presumed dead.” In the 12 years since “Rejects” was released, Zombie has directed two “Halloween” movies, “The Lords of Salem,” and last year’s “31.”
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- 10/26/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Hello, and welcome to The Best Of Number Two here at The Liberal Dead. We haven’t done any kind of theme for a long time, so I thought I would reach out to some some talented people from other sites, and see if we can put something together. I decided it would be a theme about the best second films in a franchise/series. Expect discussion about Metamorhosis: The Alien Factor, The Devil’s Rejects, C.H.U.D. II, Blade II, Sleepaway Camp II, Amityville 2, Island of the Fishmen, The Dark Knight, Final Destination 2, House II and more.
Rob Zombie is a polarizing filmmaker, to say the least. Love him or hate him, you cannot deny is his ambition. The longtime musician made his feature directorial debut with House of 1000 Corpses. Although filmed in 2000, the movie didn’t hit theaters until 2003. Corpses fell victim to many issues that first-time directors face,...
Rob Zombie is a polarizing filmmaker, to say the least. Love him or hate him, you cannot deny is his ambition. The longtime musician made his feature directorial debut with House of 1000 Corpses. Although filmed in 2000, the movie didn’t hit theaters until 2003. Corpses fell victim to many issues that first-time directors face,...
- 7/4/2014
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
Ok Young’ns, hopefully you’ve had time to let volume one sink into your brain-holes. Now it’s time to jump into volume two and see how much further Zombie takes us down the Hillbilly Rabbit Hole. So pay attention because I’m gonna learn ya somethin’!
Again, I will assume that everyone (reading this post) has seen The Devil’s Rejects. If not, tell me why the Hell you didn’t watch it right after you sat through The House of 1000 Corpses?! Huh?! Anyway, you’re grounded. Now, go sit in the out house and think about what you did…
Now, we’ll briefly re-cap volume one so we’re all on the same page. For some unGodly reason, Rob Zombie thinks Hillbillies are cool and makes them bad-ass in his flicks instead of dumb-ass-es. Instead of making them bumbling comic relief stereotypes, he turns them into...
Again, I will assume that everyone (reading this post) has seen The Devil’s Rejects. If not, tell me why the Hell you didn’t watch it right after you sat through The House of 1000 Corpses?! Huh?! Anyway, you’re grounded. Now, go sit in the out house and think about what you did…
Now, we’ll briefly re-cap volume one so we’re all on the same page. For some unGodly reason, Rob Zombie thinks Hillbillies are cool and makes them bad-ass in his flicks instead of dumb-ass-es. Instead of making them bumbling comic relief stereotypes, he turns them into...
- 8/28/2012
- by Frank Browning
- The Liberal Dead
I wanna say a few (thousand) words about Rob Zombie’s first 2 flicks. Vol. 1 will focus on ‘House of 1,000 Corpses’ and Vol. 2 will cover ‘The Devil’s Rejects.’ I wanna first congratulate Rob Zombie on making Hillbillies seem cool. To my knowledge, this has never been accomplished in history before or since his attempt/s. As a Hillbilly, this fact makes me slightly happy and partially aroused. That being said, onto the good stuff.
I’m going to assume that everyone (reading this post) has seen this film. If not, pause this article, go watch the movie on VHS (or Beta Max where available) and come back to us. I don’t feel like telling you lazy bastards all the info you can get on IMDb.
“How does one make a Hillbilly seem cool” you ask? Well take Zombie’s example. The characters in his films may be Hillbillies or Rednecks,...
I’m going to assume that everyone (reading this post) has seen this film. If not, pause this article, go watch the movie on VHS (or Beta Max where available) and come back to us. I don’t feel like telling you lazy bastards all the info you can get on IMDb.
“How does one make a Hillbilly seem cool” you ask? Well take Zombie’s example. The characters in his films may be Hillbillies or Rednecks,...
- 8/22/2012
- by Frank Browning
- The Liberal Dead
Daniel Wallace writes exclusively for Pure Movies on how his novel was adapted to become Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton and starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard and Matthew McGrory. It had never been an ambition of mine to see one of my novels become a movie: after years of trying, and failing, to write even a pretty good fiction, all I wanted was a book I could be proud of. Before Big Fish, I’d written four novels and two short story collections. Some of the stories were published on their own but nothing I was ever able to assemble as a book length manuscript was very good, no matter what I thought about it at the time. Luckily, no one else thought they were very good either, and none of these books were ever published.
- 3/11/2011
- by Daniel Wallace
- Pure Movies
by Mike Pickle, MoreHorror.com
Well, MoreHorror Hounds; March is request month. This week's review request was one that I was more than pleased to honor. Rob Zombie's modern Horror classic The Devil's Rejects. When I first watched The Devil's Rejects years ago I thought it was one of the most starkly brutal films I had ever seen. I've always liked it, but it seemed like violence for the sake of violence. Now that this type of realistic brutality is more common; I recognize beauty in the carnage. I can see the many layers that make this a relevant piece of Horror cinema history. The Devil's Rejects is a film that defies convention. You would think that, in a time when everything has been done, films that take chances like this would be more prominent, but they're not.
Many horror filmmakers are tied down to age-old clichés trying to...
Well, MoreHorror Hounds; March is request month. This week's review request was one that I was more than pleased to honor. Rob Zombie's modern Horror classic The Devil's Rejects. When I first watched The Devil's Rejects years ago I thought it was one of the most starkly brutal films I had ever seen. I've always liked it, but it seemed like violence for the sake of violence. Now that this type of realistic brutality is more common; I recognize beauty in the carnage. I can see the many layers that make this a relevant piece of Horror cinema history. The Devil's Rejects is a film that defies convention. You would think that, in a time when everything has been done, films that take chances like this would be more prominent, but they're not.
Many horror filmmakers are tied down to age-old clichés trying to...
- 3/11/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Actor Matthew McGrory died at home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 32. Police say the huge star, who was over seven foot tall, passed away from natural causes. McGrory became an actor after appearing on New York DJ Howard Stern's radio show in the 1990s. He starred in films including Big Fish, Men In Black II, House Of 1000 Corpses and its recent sequel, The Devil's Rejects.
- 8/11/2005
- WENN
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"Big Fish" is a misfire. The film that wants to be lighter than air instead crashes to earth with the swiftness of a concrete parachute. Director Tim Burton, whose early career displayed a dazzling gift for the surreal, is in a slump. Yet whatever one thought of his two most recent pictures, "Planet of the Apes" or "Sleepy Hollow", nothing will prepare his admirers for this belabored oddity that is one long-winded tall tale illustrated with hammy, artificial sets and gee-whiz acting.
It's hard to think what audience "Big Fish" might attract once the opening weekend is over. The circus performers and fantasy elements may delight youngsters, but older moviegoers will be put off by the clumsiness in the film's style and tone.
The source material, Daniel Wallace's novel "Big Fish, A Story of Mythic Proportions," concerns a charismatic Southern gentleman who, in his stories of the past, has transformed his life into an almost Homeric odyssey through a fablelike world. While there is a kernel of truth in every tale, these adventure stories become the means by which this slippery and now aging man can hold intimacy at bay: All his life, Edward Bloom (played with fine bluster by Albert Finney) has used whimsy and jocular charm to keep people at a distance.
Burton and screenwriter John August try to visualize this literary conceit by intertwining Edward's tall tales about his adventures as a young man (played by Ewan McGregor) with the efforts of Bloom's journalist son Will (Billy Crudup) to establish the facts of his dad's life. Having wearied of the outlandish stories and tired of operating in the shadows of his gregarious father, Will has married a French woman (Marion Cotillard) and fled to Paris, where he works for the AP. Summoned home to reconcile with his now dying father by his loving and tolerant mother, Sandra (Jessica Lange), Will means to separate myth from reality once and for all.
For a while, the absurdist imagery in Edward's tales tickle the fancy: A storm maroons a car in a tree. A pale nude figure of a woman drifts in the moonlight above a river. A large fish swallows Edward's gold wedding band. Edward stumbles across an isolated town no one ever leaves.
The characters also intrigue initially: There is a giant named Karl (Matthew McGrory) who proves to be shy and gentle, a circus ringmaster (Danny DeVito) who turns into a werewolf, conjoined Korean lounge singers who join Edward in his travels and a witch Helena Bonham Carter) who has a glass eye that foretells how Edward will die.
But these stories never get beyond their surreal imagery. They stand in isolation from the storyteller and his family as denials of reality spurred by no particular condition or circumstances.
What is even more curious in the movie version, when Will does investigate these stories -- he merely narrates his dad's stories in the novel -- Burton and August seem reluctant to let go of these folk tales. The isolated town really does exist, only it has fallen on hard times. Many characters are real, only exaggerated.
By insisting on the literal reality of Edward's inventions -- as opposed to the gross exaggerations of an overactive imagination -- the movie undermines its own theme of a teller of tale tales who relates truth through fiction.
As the fatally ill storyteller, Finney gets to chew the scenery but pins down few character specifics. As warm and accepting wives, Lange and Cotillard smile prettily but do little else. Crudup is burdened with a cantankerous character forever fussing and fuming about his father's failures as a father. As the young man seen in mythic flashbacks, McGregor gets to stare in wide-eyed wonder at the fabulous adventures, but his is mostly a reactive role.
Production design and costumes lack the ingenuity of Burton's previous forays into colorful imaginary worlds. Sets in particular look a little too much like movie sets.
BIG FISH
Columbia Pictures
A Jinks/Cohen Co./Zanuck Co. production
Credits:
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: John August
Based on a novel by: Daniel Wallace
Producers: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck
Executive producer: Arne Schmidt
Director of photography: Philippe Rousselot
Production designer: Dennis Gassner
Music: Danny Elfman
Costume designer: Colleen Atwood
Editors: Chris Lebenzon
Cast:
Young Edward Bloom: Ewan McGregor
Old Edward Bloom: Albert Finney
William Bloom: Billy Crudup
Sandy Bloom: Jessica Lange
Young Sandy: Alison Lohman
Jenny/Witch: Helena Bonham Carter
Norther Winslow: Steve Buscemi
Amos Calloway: Danny DeVito
Dr. Bennett: Robert Guillaume
Josephine: Marion Cotillard
Karl the Giant: Matthew McGrory
Running time -- 120 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Wednesday, Dec. 10
"Big Fish" is a misfire. The film that wants to be lighter than air instead crashes to earth with the swiftness of a concrete parachute. Director Tim Burton, whose early career displayed a dazzling gift for the surreal, is in a slump. Yet whatever one thought of his two most recent pictures, "Planet of the Apes" or "Sleepy Hollow", nothing will prepare his admirers for this belabored oddity that is one long-winded tall tale illustrated with hammy, artificial sets and gee-whiz acting.
It's hard to think what audience "Big Fish" might attract once the opening weekend is over. The circus performers and fantasy elements may delight youngsters, but older moviegoers will be put off by the clumsiness in the film's style and tone.
The source material, Daniel Wallace's novel "Big Fish, A Story of Mythic Proportions," concerns a charismatic Southern gentleman who, in his stories of the past, has transformed his life into an almost Homeric odyssey through a fablelike world. While there is a kernel of truth in every tale, these adventure stories become the means by which this slippery and now aging man can hold intimacy at bay: All his life, Edward Bloom (played with fine bluster by Albert Finney) has used whimsy and jocular charm to keep people at a distance.
Burton and screenwriter John August try to visualize this literary conceit by intertwining Edward's tall tales about his adventures as a young man (played by Ewan McGregor) with the efforts of Bloom's journalist son Will (Billy Crudup) to establish the facts of his dad's life. Having wearied of the outlandish stories and tired of operating in the shadows of his gregarious father, Will has married a French woman (Marion Cotillard) and fled to Paris, where he works for the AP. Summoned home to reconcile with his now dying father by his loving and tolerant mother, Sandra (Jessica Lange), Will means to separate myth from reality once and for all.
For a while, the absurdist imagery in Edward's tales tickle the fancy: A storm maroons a car in a tree. A pale nude figure of a woman drifts in the moonlight above a river. A large fish swallows Edward's gold wedding band. Edward stumbles across an isolated town no one ever leaves.
The characters also intrigue initially: There is a giant named Karl (Matthew McGrory) who proves to be shy and gentle, a circus ringmaster (Danny DeVito) who turns into a werewolf, conjoined Korean lounge singers who join Edward in his travels and a witch Helena Bonham Carter) who has a glass eye that foretells how Edward will die.
But these stories never get beyond their surreal imagery. They stand in isolation from the storyteller and his family as denials of reality spurred by no particular condition or circumstances.
What is even more curious in the movie version, when Will does investigate these stories -- he merely narrates his dad's stories in the novel -- Burton and August seem reluctant to let go of these folk tales. The isolated town really does exist, only it has fallen on hard times. Many characters are real, only exaggerated.
By insisting on the literal reality of Edward's inventions -- as opposed to the gross exaggerations of an overactive imagination -- the movie undermines its own theme of a teller of tale tales who relates truth through fiction.
As the fatally ill storyteller, Finney gets to chew the scenery but pins down few character specifics. As warm and accepting wives, Lange and Cotillard smile prettily but do little else. Crudup is burdened with a cantankerous character forever fussing and fuming about his father's failures as a father. As the young man seen in mythic flashbacks, McGregor gets to stare in wide-eyed wonder at the fabulous adventures, but his is mostly a reactive role.
Production design and costumes lack the ingenuity of Burton's previous forays into colorful imaginary worlds. Sets in particular look a little too much like movie sets.
BIG FISH
Columbia Pictures
A Jinks/Cohen Co./Zanuck Co. production
Credits:
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: John August
Based on a novel by: Daniel Wallace
Producers: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck
Executive producer: Arne Schmidt
Director of photography: Philippe Rousselot
Production designer: Dennis Gassner
Music: Danny Elfman
Costume designer: Colleen Atwood
Editors: Chris Lebenzon
Cast:
Young Edward Bloom: Ewan McGregor
Old Edward Bloom: Albert Finney
William Bloom: Billy Crudup
Sandy Bloom: Jessica Lange
Young Sandy: Alison Lohman
Jenny/Witch: Helena Bonham Carter
Norther Winslow: Steve Buscemi
Amos Calloway: Danny DeVito
Dr. Bennett: Robert Guillaume
Josephine: Marion Cotillard
Karl the Giant: Matthew McGrory
Running time -- 120 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 12/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opened
Friday, April 11
Having lingered in major-studio limbo for the past three years (a rare instance of corporate wisdom), this cheesy and ultragory exploitation horror flick is finally seeing the light of day thanks, or no thanks, to Lions Gate.
An homage to horror flicks in general and '70s-era slasher movies in particular, "House of 1000 Corpses" lives up to the spirit but not the quality of its inspirations. Indeed, the only truly scary thing throughout the nearly 90 minutes of bloody torture and mayhem is the onscreen phrase, "A Rob Zombie film".
Yes, it's that Rob Zombie, and it's obvious that the singer -- who wrote and directed this debut effort -- has applied a dementedly loving touch to the proceedings, which are staged with such a lavish attention to decrepit detail that it's no surprise that the enterprise began as a horror display for a theme park. Indeed, far more care has been given to the supremely gruesome props and decor on display than the plot, which is little more than incoherent.
For the information of those who might care, the story, set on Halloween eve in 1977, has something to do with a group of four young cross-country travelers who fall prey to a family of mutant psychos. Their first troubling encounter, and the film's most entertaining segment, takes place at Museum of Monsters and Madmen, a roadside emporium run by the demented Capt. Spaulding (Sid Haig), not the only figure here named after a Groucho Marx character.
The group decides to set out in search of a local landmark: the tree where one of the town's most infamous madmen was hanged. They encounter comely blonde hitchhiker Baby (Sheri Moon), who leads them to a house inhabited by Mother Firefly (Karen Black) and her family of murderous loony tunes, including the grotesque Otis (Bill Moseley), the licentious Grampa Hugo (Dennis Fimple) and the hulking Tiny (Matthew McGrory). General mayhem and torture ensues, filmed with a loving and gleeful attention to entrails-strewn detail by Mr. Zombie, who, strangely enough, is far more decorous here when it comes to sex.
Actually, the gruesome content of the film -- not so far removed from many other exploitation horror flicks -- is less troubling than the general incompetence of the filmmaking. While the proceedings are embellished with a number of stylistic effects, including sudden changes of film stock and various other photographic tricks, the only effective moments are provided by the quick clips of several vintage horror films, the viewing of any of which would be preferable. The end results are almost strangely devoid of thrills, shocks or horror, other than the sight of not one but two former Oscar nominees (Black and Michael J. Pollard) reduced to such a pitiable career state.
House of 1000 Corpses
Lions Gate Films
A Rob Zombie film
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Rob Zombie
Producer: Andy Gould
Executive producers: Andy Given, Guy Oseary
Directors of photography: Tom Richmond, Alex Poppas
Editors: Kathryn Himoff, Robert K Lambert
Original music: Rob Zombie, Scott Humphrey
Art director: Michael Krantz
Cast:
Capt Spaulding: Sid Haig
Otis: Bill Moseley
Baby: Sheri Moon
Mother Firefly: Karen Black
Jerry Goldsmith: Chris Hardwick
Denise Willis: Erin Daniels
Mary Knowles: Jennifer Jostyn
Bill Hudley: Rainn Wilson
Steve Naish: Walter Goggins
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, April 11
Having lingered in major-studio limbo for the past three years (a rare instance of corporate wisdom), this cheesy and ultragory exploitation horror flick is finally seeing the light of day thanks, or no thanks, to Lions Gate.
An homage to horror flicks in general and '70s-era slasher movies in particular, "House of 1000 Corpses" lives up to the spirit but not the quality of its inspirations. Indeed, the only truly scary thing throughout the nearly 90 minutes of bloody torture and mayhem is the onscreen phrase, "A Rob Zombie film".
Yes, it's that Rob Zombie, and it's obvious that the singer -- who wrote and directed this debut effort -- has applied a dementedly loving touch to the proceedings, which are staged with such a lavish attention to decrepit detail that it's no surprise that the enterprise began as a horror display for a theme park. Indeed, far more care has been given to the supremely gruesome props and decor on display than the plot, which is little more than incoherent.
For the information of those who might care, the story, set on Halloween eve in 1977, has something to do with a group of four young cross-country travelers who fall prey to a family of mutant psychos. Their first troubling encounter, and the film's most entertaining segment, takes place at Museum of Monsters and Madmen, a roadside emporium run by the demented Capt. Spaulding (Sid Haig), not the only figure here named after a Groucho Marx character.
The group decides to set out in search of a local landmark: the tree where one of the town's most infamous madmen was hanged. They encounter comely blonde hitchhiker Baby (Sheri Moon), who leads them to a house inhabited by Mother Firefly (Karen Black) and her family of murderous loony tunes, including the grotesque Otis (Bill Moseley), the licentious Grampa Hugo (Dennis Fimple) and the hulking Tiny (Matthew McGrory). General mayhem and torture ensues, filmed with a loving and gleeful attention to entrails-strewn detail by Mr. Zombie, who, strangely enough, is far more decorous here when it comes to sex.
Actually, the gruesome content of the film -- not so far removed from many other exploitation horror flicks -- is less troubling than the general incompetence of the filmmaking. While the proceedings are embellished with a number of stylistic effects, including sudden changes of film stock and various other photographic tricks, the only effective moments are provided by the quick clips of several vintage horror films, the viewing of any of which would be preferable. The end results are almost strangely devoid of thrills, shocks or horror, other than the sight of not one but two former Oscar nominees (Black and Michael J. Pollard) reduced to such a pitiable career state.
House of 1000 Corpses
Lions Gate Films
A Rob Zombie film
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Rob Zombie
Producer: Andy Gould
Executive producers: Andy Given, Guy Oseary
Directors of photography: Tom Richmond, Alex Poppas
Editors: Kathryn Himoff, Robert K Lambert
Original music: Rob Zombie, Scott Humphrey
Art director: Michael Krantz
Cast:
Capt Spaulding: Sid Haig
Otis: Bill Moseley
Baby: Sheri Moon
Mother Firefly: Karen Black
Jerry Goldsmith: Chris Hardwick
Denise Willis: Erin Daniels
Mary Knowles: Jennifer Jostyn
Bill Hudley: Rainn Wilson
Steve Naish: Walter Goggins
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 4/15/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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