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Movie Review - House Of 1,000 Corpses (2003)
- By Adrian Tallent
- Published 10/14/2009
- Horror Films and Thrillers
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Adrian Tallent
A former student of Spartanburg Technical College and overall geek, I enjoy listening to music, reading books, playing video games, and watching movies. Sometimes I write about them.
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Hard Stats:
Producer: Universal Pictures (distributed by Lion's Gate Films)
Director: Rob Zombie
Screenwriter: Rob Zombie
Cast:
Chris Hardwick - Jerry Goldsmith
Rainn Wilson - Bill Hudley
Erin Daniells - Denise Willis
Jennifer Jostyn - Mary Knowles
Sid Haig - Captain Spaulding
Bill Moseley - Otis B. Driftwood
Sherri Moon Zombie - Baby Firefly
Robert Allen Mukues - Rufus "RJ" Firefly Jr.
Matthew McGrory - Tiny Firefly
Karen Black - Mother Firefly
Dennis Fimple - Grandpa Hugo
Walter Phelan - Dr. Satan
Trivia:
Sherri Moon Zombie, who makes her feature film debut in this film, is Rob Zombie's wife.
This was Dennis Fimple's last film, and is dedicated to him.
Several characters are named after characters that appeared in Marx Brothers films.
During its box office run, the film encountered two instances of the number '666'. The first was when the film grossed $3,460,666 on its opening weekend, and the second was when the theater average income for the film was found to be $666.
The Firefly House is actually the same house used in the film "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas", and is a part of Universal Studios' theme park in Orlando, Florida. Universal would not close the house to visitors during filming, so many scenes for this film were delayed.
The film was actually completed in 2000, but was ultimately rejected by Universal Studios, which believed the film would receive an NC-17 rating (which it did). It took two years before Zombie found a distributer willing to publish it in Lion's Gate Entertainment.
As one might expect, Rob Zombie wrote and performed most of the songs on the soundtrack.
