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.
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.
– Dan Fienberg,
L.A. Weekly,
25 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:
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:
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:
A cobwebbed, mummified horror entry that makes obvious, cartoonishly grotesque demands for attention.