PRODUCTION NOTES
MEET
THE FAMILY
Meet
Captain. Spaulding – Owner and proprietor of Capt. Spaulding’s
Museum of Monsters and Madmen. Who is this murdering clown? Just
another backwoods psycho or part of the Firefly clan?
Meet
Otis – Rotten teeth, dead pale skin and long filthy white
hair – this is one lowdown dirty killing machine. He claims
to be part of the Firefly clan, so why is his last name Driftwood?
Meet
Mother Firefly – This aging nympho never quits. All her babies
seem to have different fathers, especially Tiny. As sweet as apple
pie, as seductive as your back alley sexpot, and as deadly as rattlesnake,
look out for this one.
Meet
Baby – Five-foot, ten-inches of blonde dynamite, she’ll
love you and leave you…dead. As crazy as her mother, but who
exactly is the Daddy?
Meet
Grampa Hugo – This dirty old man is always happy for some
young stuff. Grampa Hugo and Otis are clearly cut from the same
filth. What does he know about Dr. Satan?
Meet
Tiny – A misnomer in the flesh, Tiny was the victim of his
own Deadbeat Dad, Earl, who beat the family and in a fit of wild
paranoia, tried to burn down the house. Poor Tiny, asleep in the
basement, made it out alive but terribly burned, scarred and lost
all his hearing. Though shy because of his deformity, Tiny is quite
the "ladykiller."
HOUSE
OF 1000 CORPSES TAKES A LIFE
Having
established himself as a shock rock pioneer, Zombie began to branch
out into other areas, including music production, remixing, and
artist management. In April of 2000, Zombie would make his greatest
creative risk to date, combining his artistic vision and his personal
passion. He began writing and subsequently directing a feature film,
funded by Universal Studios after he designed a horror display for
their amusement parks. The film, entitled House of 1000 Corpses,
was produced and edited, but unfortunately Universal backed out
due to their own standards (the film was found to be "too dark
and disturbing for release under their corporate releasing guidelines").
Zombie wrangled the film’s rights from the studio while taking
out his frustrations on his next solo record. After the record’s
release and subsequent success, as well as a huge Christmas tour
with his idol Ozzy Osbourne at the end of 2001 and another solo
tour in the spring of 2002, Zombie refocused on House of 1000 Corpses,
and sold it to MGM for a Halloween release, bypassing offers from
several smaller studios. Once again, however, the celluloid rug
was yanked out from under Zombie. MGM refused to release the film,
and Zombie once again took possession of his pet project.
That’s
when Lions Gate Entertainment stepped into the breach. Known for
original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world,
Lions Gate had been the force behind such feature films as Monsters
Ball (starring 2001 Academy Award winner for Best Actress Halle
Berry), Frailty, Cat’s Meow, Lantana, Rules Of Attraction,
Secretary, The Grey Zone, The Weight of Water, and Lovely &
Amazing. Its upcoming slate features the in-house productions: Confidence,
starring Dustin Hoffman, Ed Burns, Rachel Weisz and Andy Garcia;
Godsend, a contemporary thriller starring Robert DeNiro, Greg Kinnear
and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; the eagerly-anticipated Shattered Glass,
based on the incendiary Stephen Glass story, starring Hayden Christensen;
and the true-crime drama Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer and one
of Lions Gate's top ensemble casts ever. |
