MOVIE: House of 1000 corpses & The Devils Rejects

House of 1000 Corpses is a horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, a heavy metal artist, making his debut as a movie director. It was released in the U.S. on April 11, 2003 and marketed as The most shocking tale of carnage ever seen. The movie was produced by Lion's Gate Films.

House of 1000 Corpses begins with the tale of four youths: nerdy Bill Hudley, his hyper and wise-cracking friend, Jerry Goldsmith, Bill’s snotty girlfriend, Mary Knowles, and Jerry’s level-headed girlfriend, Denise Willis. On the night before Halloween of 1977, the four of them are driving in the middle of nowhere to Denise’s house in a town called Ruggsville. Running out of gas, the group stops at Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen, an unusual establishment that serves as a gas station, museum of oddities, haunted house attraction, and chicken wing fry. Inside, the group (whose male members are enthusiasts of offbeat roadside attractions) meet Captain Spaulding, a foul-mouthed, slobbish, and somewhat psychotic clown. After riding his “famous” murder ride, a cheap dark-ride full of monster props and serial killer exhibits, Jerry becomes infatuated with the local legend of a surgeon known as Doctor Satan for his cruel treatment of mental patients. Obsessed with finding the tree where a mob allegedly lynched the mass murderer, Jerry begs Spaulding for hand-drawn directions and coerces the group to drive out in search of it in an oncoming storm. On the way, the foursome picks up a beautiful, but eccentric hitchhiker who later calls herself Baby. She offers to lend shelter to the four when their tire flattens under mysterious circumstances. Inside the isolated farmhouse, the couples meet Baby’s equally eccentric family consisting of Otis Driftwood, a Charles Manson-esque sadist with a God complex, Mother Firefly, a flirtatious old hag who dresses in burlesque outfits, Rufus Jr., a hulking brute in bearskin who has a knack for repairing things, Tiny, a silent and deformed freak with a nonviolent nature, and Grandpa Hugo, a crude and dirty old man of banal aesthetic. While the Firefly family tries to entertain the four bewildered guests, it soon becomes apparent to the youths that the family intends to hold them captive for a series of grisly Halloween rituals. While the Ruggsville police and Denise's father begin a vain search attempt, the couples learn more about the legend of Doctor Satan than they would have ever cared to know.

While perhaps not a full-fledged black comedy, House of 1,000 Corpses keeps the tone of the movie on a humorous side, even if the jokes tend to be "sick". The early events of the film, especially the outright comedic scenes with the highly memorable Captain Spaulding, may even give the viewer the misinterpretation that this is a horror movie spoof. The events do, however, shift into a tale of nastiness where the humor is through the eyes of sadistic torturers.

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The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 horror film, directed by Rob Zombie. It is the sequel to the 2003 film, House of 1000 Corpses.

A few months after the events in House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Sheriff John Quincy Wydell and a large posse of State Troopers start making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for over seventy murders and disappearances that they have caused over the previous several years. Tiny is MIA, Rufus is killed and Mother Firefly is taken into custody. But two of the family members (Otis B. Driftwood and Baby) escape.

The duo seek refuge at a run-down hotel, where they torture and murder Banjo and Sullivan, a traveling country band, before meeting up with Baby's father Captain Spaulding. In doing so, they evade a massive dragnet led by Sheriff John Quincey Wydell, whose brother was killed by Mother Firefly in the last movie. Wydell wants to avenge his brother's death, and the countless other victims of the Fireflys, but slowly loses his sanity continuing his chase against the killers.

The surviving Firefly clan gather at a whorehouse owned by Captain Spaulding's brother by adoption, Charlie Altamont, where he offers them shelter from the police.

Charlie is pressured by Wydell to give the Rejects up. With the help of two amoral bounty hunters called the Unholy Two, the sheriff takes the family back to the Firefly house where he proceeds to torture them in ways not unlike the ways they tortured their own victims; among them are nailing Otis's hands to his chair, and tormenting Baby over the death of her mother (whom Wydell killed earlier).

He lights the house on fire and leaves Otis and Spaulding to burn while taking Baby outside to murder her. Charlie Altamont returns to save his family, but is brutally axed by Wydell. It is only the last minute intervention of Tiny that saves the Firefly family; the giant returns and snaps Wydell's neck.

The Rejects are saved and share a brief tearful reunion. Tiny decides to go back into the burning house to die alone and Otis, Baby and Spaulding escape in Charlie's car.

The film's final scene has the trio driving into the middle of a police barricade, with no sound heard except Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird. As the tempo of the last portion of the song increases, they grab their guns and go forward in a final blaze of glory before being shot to death by the police.

I absolutely <3 house of 1000 corpses and was dissapointed when i saw the Devil rejects. House Of 1000 Corpses is my favourite horror movie and nothign can compare to it.

I thought it was funny...good comedy. I liked Doctor Satan he would have been a scary character for about so-so minutes. Honestly, at least Rob Zombie is being original with 1000 Corpses [as original as you can get anyway]
He should keep his work up.

Ive heard theres gonna be another one. Thatll be awesome. Maybe some other people might move into the house. Then again it was burnt down.. so hmmm

can you please add some info?

OMFG i didnt even realise
Soz... o.o ill add some now

and they both scared the hell out of me.
and i reallly didn't like the Devils Rejects.

^ serious? I thought they were quality comedy... Nah, iuno, movies just dont scare me. Horror is meh fav genre and ive been watching horror flicks for years so maybe thats why. Its such a shame Devils Rejects was so crap. i expected it to be amazing cos of how good the first one was so yeah its a good movie but coulda been LOADS better.

I personally thought that The Devil's Rejects was a tad better than House Of 1000 Corpses.
Honestly, I don't know why I think this, I just do. =\

But I really like the song 'House Of 1000 Corpses'. It's catchy.

i thought it was pants!! I fell asleep

Lucifers Angel:

i thought it was pants!! I fell asleep

You .. thought it was pants?

Michelle.:

Lucifers Angel:

i thought it was pants!! I fell asleep

You .. thought it was pants?

yes i thought it was pants, boring been done before

the acting was kinda bleh..it was okay though..
devils rejects was better!!

I think they might make a third one cuz that tall crazy looking guy is still their

Killer-Funk:

the acting was kinda bleh..it was okay though..
devils rejects was better!!

I think they might make a third one cuz that tall crazy looking guy is still their

I thought tiny burnt away in the fire.. But maybe he's still alive. I hope there is another one. Then ill have to change the title of this thread lol

Mhairi.:

Killer-Funk:

the acting was kinda bleh..it was okay though..
devils rejects was better!!

I think they might make a third one cuz that tall crazy looking guy is still their

I thought tiny burnt away in the fire.. But maybe he's still alive. I hope there is another one. Then ill have to change the title of this thread lol

i don't remmeber the names but if your taking about that disfigured big guy, he saved them from that mad cop remember...I think he did? *scratches head* oh well

Yeahm Tiny is the hige disfigured guy. Im pretty sure he dies in the fire of their house.