House of 1000 Corpses. USA 2003. Directed by Rob Zombie

One of the Rob Zombie's life-long dream came true, when House of 1000 Corpses, debut full-length movie of this rock singer / director found its distributor. Those who are familiar with Zombie's solo career and White Zombie -era music (and music videos directed by him) should have a clue what is this film all about.

Four youngsters travel across the remote areas and find their way to clown-faced Captain Spaulding, who runs a peculiar amusement park in the middle of nowhere. Spaulding tells them the legend of local serial killer, Dr. Satan. Young ones end up in the rundown house owned by the Firefly-family and that seems to be very bad choice.

Rob Zombie made his movie into somekind of hybrid of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), his own music videos and Brazilian king of horror, José Mojica Marins' - better known as Coffin Joe - oddest movies. Zombie has fascinated into theoretically pointless visual stylization, which - after all - fit into the movie perfectly.

There's a high amount of violence and sick, disturbed atmosphere but you just cannot take House of 1000 Corpses seriously. I mean, just think about the title itself.

One of the finest moments was to see Sid Haig (of Jack Hill's Foxy Brown, Coffy and Spider Baby) in great physical condition, at least when you look at his facial expressions or listen to those verbalics.