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PRESENTATION

One Man, 37 Year of psychoholic mood, 7 million of blood stained bucks 107 pages of outrageous scripts 2 uncouragous production companies, 3 Years of hard fighting with censors, 3 release dates planned, 3 unholy souls 1 house built on zillions sins, and at last but not least 1000 juicy bloody Corpses

Rob Zombie set off to shoot a self-penned feature film somehow inspired by his second passion which is old horror flicks.
On his resume you can see that he is not too novice for directing a hollywood movie :

The film, House of A Thousand Corpses, was ultimately deemed un-releasable after the studio head called it "an uber celebration of depravity," a criticism Zombie is quite proud of.

House of 1000 Corpses is set in the 1970s, about a group of young innocents who accidentally stumble into a house of horrors in order to escape a horrific storm.

Side Notes :

INFLUENCES

The title may be inspired from the movie "The House of Seven Corpses" (1973) : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630594394X/rzr
Ho7C was about a director who decides to film a horror-flick at a mansion where seven murders were comititted. The butler of the house tells them to leave but they dont and some supernatural entity goes on another killer spree. I am sure it is more than 142 times different

Early opinions from test audiences and a remarkable trailer lead me to believe this is a cross between Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. A liberal use of red and blue color give it an almost comic book quality.

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SCENARIO

Two lost couples find themselves stranded for the night in an old dark house where they are set upon by the family in residence that dabbles in murder, witchcraft, and cannibalism which are just a few of the 1,000+ secrets buried in the field behind their house.

There are some scripts floating on Ebay : This is a copy of the 107 pages unreleased movie script for Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. It comes with 8 additional pages of SKETCHES of different characters from the film supposedly drawn by ROB ZOMBIE HIMSELF.

[ I can trade a copy of it for the crow 2037 script ]

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CAST OVERVIEW

Sid Haig (Jackie Brown)
as Captain Spaulding
Spider Baby , Shaft
the cover clown from the original Mr. Bungle album. Lies
Karen Black
as Mother Firefly http://www.karenblackonline.com/
Bill Moseley (I)
as Otis ... You might remember him from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. He was "Chop Top". Metal plate? Coat hanger? Ring a bell?
Michael J. Pollard
as Stucky
Bonnie and Clyde , with Haig Pollard
Sheri Moon
asBaby
I think she is RZ girlfriend, and dancer
Rob told Mtv that he had to cut down some of the torture scenes with Baby in them.
RZ said "It's her violence that I had to edit so much of".
Jeanne Carmen
as Miss Bunny http://www.jeannecarmen.com/
Ex hot 50's pinup 's character runs a children's playhouse where she puts on puppet shows with dead animals.
Chris Hardwick
as Jerry
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Chuck Aronberg
as Andy
Erin Daniels
Dennis Fimple
as Grandpa Death
passed away (61) before the film public release date, I suppose the film will be dedicated to him, http://us.imdb.com/Name?Fimple,+Dennis
Walt Goggins
Jennifer Jostyn
Irwin Keyes
Robert Allen Mukes
as Rufus Jr.
David Reynolds (VII)
Tom Towles
Freddy Waff
as Mental Patient
Rainn Wilson
Cinematographer: Tom Fraser

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PREVIEW

Now, on to topic: I literally just got home from Rob Zombie's concert in St. Paul, MN which happened just a few hours ago. At the aforementioned venue, Rob mentioned, (during stage patter as prelude to showing footage for House of 1000 Corpses and the song of the same name) that he had news to share.

He said, and I quote: "This movie you're about to see footage from has taken up several years of my life. Nobody knew where it was going, but now it's done. It's done and it's coming out this Halloween and you're all going to see it."
Sadly, he didn't give any details as to who's distributing or even if it's big-screen or video, but it was great to hear of positive movement on this project. I've been combing your site and others for news, but as you know, it's been pretty sparse.
The footage itself was pretty promising. It was jumbled and disjointed, but you could get a pretty good feel for what the tone and atmosphere will be. I'm sure you've heard about it several dozen times, but here's my take : The Legion of Doom if they were all Leatherface-esque serial killers living in a Carnival and being filmed by a 50's Exploitation/Propaganda director with a fetish for fake blood and gore. In other words, just good fun! The only thing that will definitely be missing is Vincent Price, but I'm sure he'll be there in spirit! Hope this gives you some helpful insight into the Dredded-one's movie future.

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MISC

Article in press : If you think that movie was insipid, read about Ed Gein. It was accidently based on his life. But Pshyco was intentially based on him only watered down.

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/details/1,1295,27040,00.html
The theatrical release (the edited version) is in fact around 88 minutes, and the unedited version should be roughly 2 hours.

What is jeanne Carmen Character ? Miss bunny ? It seems that the scene in where she occurs are missing ? How comes

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Movie trailer : http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/houseof1000corpses.html

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