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We watched House of 1000 Corpses and were impressed by the use of stock footage and new footage made to look like fucked out stock footage. 

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Synopsis

House of 1000 Corpses is the story of some 20 somethings on a road trip around the US on a mission to find gas station oddities and fright museums.

They stumble upon Captain Spaulding’s museum of monsters and madmen and end up flies in the web of the firefly family. 

The firefly family are a group of twisted, backwater Texans who torture and kill unsuspecting kids on outings in their car. 

The kids are treated to the extensive horrors around the firefly family property before they are picked off one by one.

If this sounds like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre ripoff, that’s because it is. Had it been made with the tiniest bit of skill or nuance, it might have been able to get away with being called an homage or a tribute, but alas, ripoff will have to do.

Review

House of 1000 Corpses is quite a sideshow. It’s the first of writer / director Rob Zombie’s feature films, and the start of an obsession for the musician.

It seems like Rob saw films like Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, and

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