House of 1000 Corpses - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of House of 1000 Corpses or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to House of 1000 Corpses

[marc]

This film would establish Sheri Moon Zombie as a Scream Queen. Ironically enough, she does not like horror films as they scare her too much.

[kyle]

(at around 11 mins) Near the beginning of the film, Capt. Spaulding tells Bill that he took over the shop "right after The Duke nabbed Oscar," speaking about John Wayne winning the award. Later in the film (at around 47 mins), Spaulding tells Wydell, "Don't get all True Grit on my ass." This is a reference to his previous comment, as True Grit (1969) was the first (and only) time Wayne ever won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

[jesse]

(at around 17 mins) Sheri Moon Zombie also appears as an extra during the neighborhood trick-or-treating scene, playing the tall young woman dressed as a nurse and pushing a baby carriage.

[sylvia]

(at around 37 mins) When Baby threatens to cut Mary with a knife, foreshadows near the end, when she stabs Mary to death.

[claude]

Rob Zombie has said that he was constantly shooting two versions of the gorier scenes to appease Universal. For instance, a shot at the start of the film in which the robber who was stabbed with the axe is on the floor was shot two ways: with blood and without blood. Several scenes were also shot twice involving regular lighting and red lighting to give it a more gruesome effect both of which were edited into the final cut. Note several scenes with cross-cutting involving sets lit with white light, and red light.

[francisco]

There is more than one instance where you see a poster for two missing young boys. Those boys were actually pictures of Rob Zombie and his brother (the lead singer of Powerman 5000) as children.

[willard]

The film was NC-17 but was cut to an R rating, the cut footage was never released.

[jamie]

(at around 1h) In the "I Remember You" scene, Otis (Bill Moseley) uses a 1911 pistol to shoot at Don Willis (Harrison Young). The pistol used was a reference to Moseley's role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), in which he played a Vietnam veteran, and Young's role in Saving Private Ryan (1998), in which he played a WW2 veteran. The 1911 pistol was the official sidearm of the US Army during the two wars.

[jessie]

The film's script was constantly changing, leading to an entirely different ending at one point. Originally Grandpa Hugo was going to be revealed as the mad doctor (who in the rough cut was not even called Dr. Satan).

[edgar]

Harrison Young is wearing an almost identical outfit to the one he wore while playing older Ryan in Saving Private Ryan (1998).