Talk:House of 1000 Corpses

Musician vs. "heavy metalist"

In case anyone is offended, I changed the obtuse phrase "heavy metalist" used to describe Rob Zombie to "musician" because firstly, I've never heard the phrase heavy metalist used in my life, and secondly, calling Rob Zombie's music heavy metal is debatable. I don't mean it as a slight to him or his music, but a case could be made that it's not heavy metal. It definitely is music, though, so I think that "musician" is a better word to use. MikeBC 00:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Good call. "Heavy metalist" sounds like bad magazine writing (although at least they didn't say "metalster"). MrBook (talk) 19:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Problems with the article

This article comes off as a fan tribute page to the extreme and many portions of it are quite redundant. I'm extremely new when it comes to contributing to Wikipedia articles, which is why I don't fix a lot of this page myself. But in the future I’ll do what I can to fix it.Red VonMunster 03:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll put a POV tag on it for now.--CyberGhostface 04:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I just took a quick look at it, but I didn't notice too many problems. It does go rather indepth, but besides that, I didn't see that many POV statements. It even goes on to describe how it was panned by most of the critics.--CyberGhostface 04:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

That's cool, from what I've seen you know what you're doin.Red VonMunster 04:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I actually haven't edited this article much at all so I don't really have much investment in it. If you or anyone else wants to edit the article, go ahead. Welcome to wikipedia, btw. :)--CyberGhostface 04:59, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the article is necessarily "bad" it just doesn’t seem very encyclopedic to me.Red VonMunster 07:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for the welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Red VonMunster (talk • contribs) 07:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to change the part in the section "Backwoods Horror" pertaining to

"Though most backwoods slasher flicks involve no element of the supernatural, House of 1000 Corpses does utilize some stylistic elements similar to the Evil Dead series to give some of its villains a supernatural vibe."

I really see nothing substantial in the film that would lead someone to believe that "House" is substantially similar to any of the Evil Dead movies. I'll wait a bit to see if there are any objections though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Red VonMunster (talk • contribs) 07:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

This article is absolutely terrible. It in no way resembles an encyclopedia entry. Example: "The film hung out for a while but soon found a distributor." - Really?? The film hung out? Where? With whom?

Example 2: "The film pulled in $3,460,666 on its limited opening weekend" - No. The film GROSSED $3 million. It is a film. It can't pull anything.

Example 3: "Altogether the film made a worldwide gross of $16,829,545. It was successful compared to its $7 million budget." - No. The film grossed $16.83 million worldwide. Period. Comments as to it being financially successful are not backed up with references. No citations here. Just opinions and speculation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.73.75.197 (talk) 22:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

The Original Universal Trailer

This is the trailer for the film when Universal was going to release the film. I remember seeing this in theaters before The Two Towers, if I'm not mistaken. It has some deleted scenes in it. Thought everyone would enjoy this and it may be relevant to the article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtWHPbkQu4

Forgotten Marx Brother Reference

Whereas , the Firefly Family & Captain Spaulding all get their names from characters played by Groucho Marx , one character gets their name from a character played by Chico Marx! Irwin Keyes , whom plays "Ravelli" , the semi-silent assistant of Sid Haig's Capt.Spaulding , is named for "Signor Emanuel Ravelli" , the character played by Chico Marx in "Animal Crackers". Harvey J Satan (talk) 15:27, 6 September 2012 (UTC) ( no relation )

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Expansion

This article is looking good, however it's missing information in the production section of the filming of House of 1000 Corpses.--Paleface Jack (talk) 23:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

“Teenagers”!?!

The four rubes in the car are supposed to be “teenagers” ? I don’t recall them being referred to as that young. They are more like 20-somethings, even though the actors were all pushing 30. ( But, then, I don’t recall if the cheerleaders were High School or College cheerleaders. ). Just reads odd, to me, to call them teenagers. 75.107.41.198 (talk) 23:20, 14 February 2023 (UTC)