"Do you like what you see?!"

I saw House of 1000 Corpses yesterday afternoon, and all I can say is "holy crap." This has to be one of the craziest movies I've ever seen. Imagine if The Texas Chainsaw Massacre traded its chainsaw for a very heavy dose of LSD. That is House of 1000 Corpses. Oddly enough, the film stars Bill Mosley, who appeared as Chop Top in the second Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.

Basically, this is Rob Zombie's homage to the gritty, blood-and-guts horror movies of the 70s. Nobody makes movies like this anymore. House of 1000 Corpses is a stark reminder that before Hollywood forced watered-down fluff like I Know What You Did Last Summer down the throats of today's youth, films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I Spit On Your Grave, and The Last House on the Left were horror. And now, Rob Zombie has brought fear back into the genre. With House of 1000 Corpses (and hopefully 28 Days Later, Cabin Fever, and Freddy vs. Jason, which will all be released later this year), the horror genre is finally getting a much-needed look at what made it great in the 70s and 80s.

House of 1000 Corpses is absolutely nothing like what today's youth knows about horror. The film is brutal, violent, disturbing. The main characters are not the only victims of pain and suffering; the audience is too. Once the movie gets going, it never stops torturing the senses. In one scene, the film absolutely stops dead in its tracks just before a cop meets the business end of a villian's handgun. It just prolongs the agony we see on screen, making it seem like it'll never end.

The film is only playing on a few hundred theaters, but if you can find one near you that's showing it, go see it. If you can't find a theater showing it, rent the video when it comes out.