Wednesday, July 4, 2012

House of 1000 Corpses

 Released Year: 2003
Directed by Rob Zombie

Casted by:
Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding
Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood
Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby Firefly
Karen Black as Mother Firefly
Chris Hardwick as Jerry Goldsmith
Rainn Wilson as Bill Hudley
 Story:
 In October 30, 1977, Jerry Goldsmith, Bill Hudley, Mary Knowles and Denise Willis are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, a vulgar but friendly owner of a gas station and "Museum of Monsters & Madmen", they learn the local legend of Dr. Satan. As the five take off in search of finding the tree from which Dr. Satan was hanged, they pick up a young hitchhiker named Baby who claims to live only a few miles away. Shortly after, the vehicle's tire bursts in what is later seen to be a trap and Baby walks to her family's house along with Bill. Only moments later, Baby's half-brother, Rufus, picks up the stranded passengers and takes them to the family home.

Soon following, the four friends meet Mother Firefly, Baby's mother; Otis Driftwood, Baby's adopted brother; Grampa Hugo, Baby's grandfather; and Baby's deformed giant half-brother, Tiny. While being treated to dinner, they discover that the family lives on weird Halloween traditions. Mother Firefly then explains that her ex-husband, Earl, had previously tried to burn Tiny alive along with the Firefly house. After the dinner is over, the family puts on a Halloween show for their guests, where Baby offends Mary by acting flirtatiously towards Bill. After Baby is threatened, Mother Firefly tells the couples to leave and that their car is repaired. As they try to leave, though, they are attacked by Otis and Tiny, being taken as prisoners. Not long after, Otis creates a work of art out of Bill's body, Mary is tied up and abused, Denise is bedbound while dressed as a doll for halloween amusement and Jerry is scalped because he failed to guess Baby's favorite movie star.

After Denise does not return home, her father, Don, calls the police to search for her. Two Deputy Sheriffs, George Wydell and Steve Naish, find the couples' abandoned car in a field with a tortured victim in the trunk. Don, who is an ex cop, is called and arrives at the scene to go with the two Deputies to search for information. They arrive at the Firefly house and upon finding bodies, the three are quickly killed. Later that night, the three remaining teenagers are taken to an underground well (they are dressed as rabbits, a reference to something Otis had said earlier in the film about how "scared kids run like rabbits, run little rabbit, run!") and Mary manages to escape, only to be killed by Baby moments later.

Meanwhile, Jerry and Denise are lowered into the underground chamber, where a number of feral figures pull Jerry away and leave Denise to find her way through the underground lair. As she journeys through the mysterious chambers, she encounters Dr. Satan and a multitude of mentally handicapped patients. Dr. Satan has Jerry on his operating table, horribly torturing and skinning him alive. As Dr. Satan yells for his mutated assistant, revealed to be Earl, Mother Firefly's ex-husband, to capture Denise, she outwits the monstrous figure and escapes the underground chambers. Moments later, she is picked up by Captain Spaulding and passes out from exhaustion in the front seat, only for Otis to appear in the backseat with a knife. The duo take her back to Dr. Satan and she is last seen being tortured by Dr. Satan.
 L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:
I have watched this before, the first time it did scared me a bit, but the second time... i fell asleep. No doubt this is not a bad horror slashing kinda movie, but a good one will freak you out everytime you watch it, but not this. The best part will be the one which the psychos change the guy into a merman... lol

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