Very Bad News on "House of 1000 Corpses"

[Steven Millan]

               According to both Blabbermouth.net,and KNAC.com,MGM has now decided not to release the upcoming "House of 1000 Corpses",with Rob Zombie promising that it will be released this September,but didn't say on whether he was planning on taking either the Master P/"I'm Bout It" direct-to-video route,or the Tom Laughlin/"Billy Jack" theatrical self-distribution route(which is really,really expensive to undertake these days).
               Either way,Rob will promsingly have this film out by the end of the year,since he desperately now wants to start work on his second movie.

[Cullen]

I'd bet on direct-to-video myself.

[Luke Bannon]

oh well. Straight to video's better then nothing.

[Drezzy]

Plus, straight-to-video ensures that he could add in any nasty little scene that might have been taken out by MGM.

[J.R.]

Dammit! There are people that enjoy serious horror films and we deserve batter than this.

[Vermin Boy]

He could also take Troma's current route (as well as the route of the "40 thieves" in the 30s) and tour his movie around the country. It's entirely plausible, given Zombie's "rock star" status, but it'd also be obviously time consuming.

[Lee]

What the HELL?!! When I'm a big star, you guys remind me to not work with Universal or MGM! Stupid asses!

[Dan_I'm_The_Man]

Drezzy wrote:
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> Plus, straight-to-video ensures that he could add in any
> nasty little scene that might have been taken out by MGM.

True.  I'm sure if he did release it on direct-to video, it would sell well based on his fans, horror fans and curiosity ("Hey, I heard MGM banned it from theatre release, let's see why....").

I'd know I'd buy one!

But still, there's gotta be a way to get this into theatres, even if he's gotta go the "art-house" route

[Abby]

Yeah, an unrated video release is confirmed for Oct. 15th according to boxofficeprophets.com.

I saw Rob Zombie a few months ago (mainly because The Damned were slated to play too, but they cancelled). He put on a good b-movie flavored show overall. Lots of monsters walking around onstage backed by cult movie clips and scantily clad chicks with ray-guns.

He also showed an extended 10-minute clip of 1000 Corpses made for the tour that had loads of stuff I hadn't seen before, so I guess that's the closest I'll get to seeing it on a big screen.  I felt like I was seeing most of the fx-heavy "hook" scenes. My impression is that 1000 Corpses should be more worthy of a theatrical release than say, Dee Snider's Strangeland; certainly better than Troma. It didn't seem so over-the-top violent to spur such a distribution fuss.  What I saw wasn't any worse than r-rated movies made before the mid 80's.

And coming from someone who had high hopes for Zombie's flick, the 1000 Corpses montage didn't look like something that's going to elevate the horror genre to new heights, to be honest.  Nice imagery, and Sid Haig looked way creepy (doesn't he always?), but I didn't see anything new. The footage I saw could have been titled, "The Hills Have Texas Chainsaw Massacres Under The Stairs." It was really THAT derivative.

Regardless, I was looking forward to 1000 Corpses as a Halloween release. It would have been better than another William Castle remake.