House Of 1000 Corpses: Critic Reviews

House of 1000 Corpses isn't coherent, exactly, but what dripping-ghoul horror movie is these days?

Mr. Zombie's encyclopedic approach to the genre results in a crowded, frenzied film in which no single idea is developed to a satisfying payoff.

I'm not sure Zombie really wants to scare us at all. Turn our stomachs; maybe, scratch our heads, sure. But scares are not really on the Zombie menu.

Wit follows coherence out the window.

Mr. Zombie's shameless pilfering, derivative and uninspired writing, and ham-fisted direction result in a chaotic mess.

A cobwebbed, mummified horror entry that makes obvious, cartoonishly grotesque demands for attention.

Neither scary, perversely funny nor suspenseful, this demented dung heap is not even inventively gory.

Possibly the greatest waste of celluloid since Jerry Lewis was first allowed to stand before a camera.

In this field of endeavour, any intense reaction is unsustainable, for the obvious reason that the guiding principle of repetition comes with an inevitable corollary and unavoidable side-effect -- sheer boredom.

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.

The endless gore and violence make the experience torturous -- and not just for the victims in the movie.

Cheesy, vapid, contrived, and shallow...

I can applaud House of 1000 Corpses on at least one level: The movie has absolutely no interest whatsoever in sanitized horror.

Le realisateur cite abondamment, mais ne parvient jamais a donner un sens a ses elans qui finissent par s'eparpiller dans un fourre-tout incoherent et anormalement tapageur

Um filme tao estupido e mal realizado que me despertou o desejo de agredir fisicamente o diretor-roteirista Rob Zombie, cujo sobrenome deve fazer referencia ao seu intelecto.

A disaster area.

Those who are tired of Hollywood's dead weight aesthetic might at least find some surprise offered here. It's not good, but it's alive on the screen.