If you buy into this movie, you will be scared. It has images that will brand themselves into your brain. Fish Boy. Puppet man. The execution shot at both long distance and in slow motion. The guy eating cereal. The bunny suits. The attack on the coffin.

The list goes on. House of 1000 Corpses is a dumptruck full of scares.

The plot hardly matters. Two dudes who are probably fans of movies like this and their bored girlfriends stumble upon a murder museum in some huckburg run by an overbearing clown. Eventually they are made captives and put through stuff. The source material goes all the way back to that epic of gore, Hershell Gordon Lewis' 2,000 Maniacs in 1964. That movie was also about two couples who blunder into a hellhole.

What is interesting about Rob Zombie's movie is the set design, makeup, camera work and editing. In fact, it can be argued that that's ALL it is about. None of it makes any sense, but visually, it's just one damned thing after another. It's as if Zombie is saying, "You thought that scene was horrifying? Get a load of this next one." The movie is drenched in effects, including polarization, pulsations, split screen, slo-mo, etc.

Throw in an Ed Gein reference, cheerleader torture, cutting off faces to make masks AND Karen Black and you got quite a package.

There are those who prefer movies like Session 9 (also excellent, but a completely different kind of horror movie). That demonstrates that horror now has many subgenres.

As the man said, those who like this sort of thing will find it to be the sort of thing they like.