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It took three years before Lions Gate finally jumped on board as this movie was moved from the major motion picture back-burner to actual print, but this project probably should have remained just as dead as the corpses. House of 1000 Corpses is a gory homage to the slasher flicks of the 70’s that never really lives up to the standards of those films it imitates, despite some creative directing by Rob Zombie (yes, the musician known for his cheesy music videos), who also wrote the script. The film is set on Halloween eve in 1977, where a group of teenagers on a cross-country excursion, happen upon The Museum of Madmen and Monsters, a roadside sideshow run by the strange Capt. Spaulding (Sid Haig). Here,