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Could've Been ... Well, No It Couldn't....
by Brando (movies profile)
May 28, 2007
18
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33 people found this review helpful
Moments of "House of 1,000 Corpses" are scary. The rest is painful to watch.
The acting in this movie is absolutely, by far, above and beyond, some of the WORST I've seen in a production. Main redneck/killer Bill Moseley spends most of his on-screen time yelling and ranting about incoherent garbage. In fact, everybody speaks nonsense. The dialogue is terrible. Nobody speaks that way. Rob Zombie should return to music (or not) and stay far away from horror films.
His original intention was to send a retort to modern horror films, like "Scream." In an interview, Zombie said modern slasher flicks aren't scary, and wanted to revive the decades-old style of horror movie, a la "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." The latter film is an obvious influence on "Corpses." Zombie might as well have put Leatherface in the film. That might've added something that currently is not present.
The story is a rip-off. Teens lost in the woods, looking for ... ahem ... Dr. Satan. They end up in little gory pieces all over some crooked, inbred mansion of philosophizing torturers. Does that sound a bit like "Texas Chainsaw"? It is a lot like "Texas Chainsaw." Might as well be a re-make.
The one credit I'll give the director is his use of visuals. Cut scenes and flashbulb nightmares are prevalent throughout the film, adding up to a distracting, disjointed mess that looks pretty (gruesome) but doesn't lead anywhere. Perhaps if Zombie didn't have his fingers all over this film (he wrote, scored and directed), it could've amounted to something other than a pile of gory bones lying in the sun. Nope. Whoops. Sorry. Maybe next time. Maybe never. |
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