Rob Zombie calls House of 1000 Corpses a calamitous mess

December 23rd 2019, 5:25pm

By now we all know that THE DEVIL'S REJECTS and THREE FROM HELL writer-director Rob Zombie says that he'd like to turn his first (and most fun) film HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES into a Broadway musical. But today we're hearing that Zombie – as strange as it may sound – doesn't like the film very much, going so far as to call it a "calamitous mess."

Specifically, Zombie says:

The first film [I directed], which people seem to love, is just a calamitous mess. Well, when it came out it seemed like everyone hated it. Now everyone acts like it’s beloved in some way. All I see is flaw, upon flaw, upon flaw… upon flaw.

Fair enough. We all know that filmmakers can be their own harshest critics. But I can't help but wonder what Zombie thinks of 31… or THREE FROM HELL for that matter. Talk about calamitous messes. Yikes. Do YOU find Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES to be a mess? Let us know below.

For those that might not know, the movie centers on

four college-age kids driving cross-country, researching a book on weird roadside attractions…This stuff has kind of disappeared now, but it was very prevalent in the 70's- like 'World's Biggest Ball of String,' 'Bigfoot Museum,' things like that. So they stumble upon this place called 'Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen.' It's basically a serial killer museum in the middle of nowhere, and Captain Spaulding is played by Sid [Spider Baby] Haig- he's the crazy-looking clown guy. So they go there and learn about this local legend in that area, a murderer called Dr. Satan, whom they find out was killed not too far away. So they want to go take pictures of this site, and once they go off-road in search of this thing, that's when all hell breaks loose.

Zombie wrote and directed HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES and the film starred Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Karen Black, Rainn Wilson, Walton Goggins, and Tom Towles. Lionsgate Films unleashed it into theaters back on April 11, 2003. Buy the original movie on Blu-ray RIGHT HERE.