Terror Tuesday: House of 1000 Corpses
This is the idealization of a horror movie that you’d stumble upon at 2am while channel surfing on acid in 1984. A valentine to every aesthetic touchpoint that Rob Zombie loved circa Y2K—including THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, Alice Cooper, and PULP FICTION—HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES is a Halloween-set slasher that’s off
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the rails in the best way possible. This hypercolored nightmare was filmed on a combination of 16mm, 35mm, Super 8, and VHS. That collage-like approach is perfectly replicated by the tone, which jumps from cartoonish camp to grotesque violence at the drop of a machete. Screening an archival 35mm print courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn — 445 Albee Square W 4th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201