Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
A cobwebbed, mummified horror entry that makes obvious, cartoonishly grotesque demands for attention.
– Scott Foundas,
Variety,
15 Apr 2003
rotten:
House of 1000 Corpses isn't coherent, exactly, but what dripping-ghoul horror movie is these days?
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Apr 2003
rotten:
In this field of endeavour, any intense reaction is unsustainable, for the obvious reason that the guiding principle of repetition comes with an inevitable corollary and unavoidable side-effect -- sheer boredom.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
18 Apr 2003
rotten:
Possibly the greatest waste of celluloid since Jerry Lewis was first allowed to stand before a camera.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
18 Apr 2003
rotten:
Zombie wants his film to be gleefully demented, but he fails to grasp that loud, inbred evil people torturing stupid, grating benign people isn't disturbing as much as tedious.