House of 1000 Corpses The Horrorgrind Cut
by Horrorgrind Home VideoWhat is it about? This is a radical take on House Of 1000 Corpses. The movie is cut down to around 45 minutes in length with the image quality vastly changed to represent a worn out VHS recording. No filler, just pure horror, with the basic plot intact. To further add to the illusion that this movie was released twenty years ago on Videocassette, I wanted to change much of the music to Heavy Metal tracks of the 80s.
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tagline: The most shocking tale of carnage ever seen.
original film name: House of 1000 Corpses
new film name : House of 1000 Corpses The Horrorgrind Cut
edit crew name : Horrorgrind Home Video
Date Original Film Was Released : April 13, 2003
Date Edit Was Released : December 2, 2008
Original Runtime : 89 min
New Runtime : 52 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : 37 min
Cuts removed/added/extended :
- + Added my own FBI Warning message to the beginning of the title.
- + Added trailer for an upcoming project.
- + Added “This film has been modified..” message
- + Added Horrorgrind Home Video logo
- - Removed Lions Gate logos.
- - Removed scene with Captain Spaulding, Stucky, and the robbers.
- / Changed the opening credits music: White Zombie’s “Tales from the Scarecrow Man”
- - Removed scene of Denise’s phone call with her dad.
- - Removed various shots of the car radio, an old film clip, and Otis talking to the cheerleaders
- - Removed scene of Baby flirting with Bill
- - cut scene of Mother Firefly right after she says “Meanwhile, why don’t you just all make yourselves ta home?”
- - Removed the dinner scene.
- - Removed Grampa Hugo’s jokes
- - Removed RJ towing the car back to the main road
- - Removed scene of Denise’s dad calling the police
- / Changed music during Bill’s torture scene: White Zombie’s “”
- - Removed Baby turning on the radio during Bill’s torture scene.
- - Removed Fishboy.
- - Removed police questioning Captain Spaulding.
- - Removed scene of Mary’s dream and inside Tiny’s room.
- - Removed scene of the police finding the car.
- + Added music to the scene of Jerry being scalped: White Zombie’s “Murderworld”
- - Removed scene of police investigating the car.
- - Removed scenes of Otis and Hugo watching TV.
- - Removed scenes of the police and Denise’s dad at the house.
- - Removed Red Hot Pussy Liquors scene
- - Removed Halloween celebration scene
- / Changed music during the graveyard scene: White Zombie’s “Godslayer”
- - Removed a clip of Tiny cranking the pulley.
- - Removed clip of Denise being operated on by Dr. Satan.
- / Changed music during ending credits: White Zombie’s “Murderworld”
- + Added new credits at the end of the film.
Fanedit details :
- Video has been cropped to a 4:3 aspect ratio, Various effects and filters were added to emulate VHS picture quality.
- DVD contains no menu’s or special features, as it is intended to be transferred to an old, worn VHS tape before watching. :}
Your intention for this fanedit:
After watching Retro Horror Remix’s Vintage VHS fanedit of House of 1000 Corpses, I was inspired to make one of my own using a similar concept, yet keeping the movie at around 45 minutes in length. No filler, just pure horror, with the basic plot intact. To further add to the illusion that this movie was released twenty years ago on Videocassette, I wanted to change much of the music to Heavy Metal tracks of the 80s. What band could fit this movie better than White zombie?
Your way to achieve your intention:
Aside from removing many scenes, I replaced a lot of the music with 1980s White Zombie songs.
I removed many scenes and characters I felt were unnecessary, including Stucky, the robbers, Denise’s dad, the police, the dinner scene, Grampa Hugo’s jokes, several scenes involving Tiny, and many others.
Hardware and software information :
- Sony Vegas Movie studio Platinum 9.0
- Sony DVD Architect Pro
Trailer: youtube
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Review by twistd101:
Or maybe that’s just me. How would one even re-create that without transferring to VHS and then back again (as was suggested)? I don’t know that it can be done without doing that. But I digress. A fine edit indeed, and a nice companion piece to the original. Can’t wait for Cannibal Holocaust. 
I have to say, this is definitely a decent edit. Not quite VHS (little too much grain, not enough “VHS” – it gets a bit pixely at times). There’s a lot of nice touches. Sometimes the over-saturation is a bit much – but honestly, that’s one of those things that makes me like it that much more. The way the colors bleed, making the picture and color -just- off enough. In a good, artsy-kinda way. The musical changes, awesome. Definitely can’t complain. The story flows well. Personally, I like the cut at the beginning when they first arrive at Spaulding’s. Very vague, very “huh, wonder what the hell this crazy clown is all about…” All in all, a damn good edit. As was already said before, it could have looked a little more VHS (a-la say… those lines at the bottom of the screen that VHS tapes get over the years – what’s that called? You know, where the bottom part kinda bends and smears to the right a bit). Maybe add some parts where it looks like the tape was eaten a little – you know how those old VHS “adult films” got from fast forwarding and re-watching the same parts again and again.
–Quality–
Video: 2.5 / 5 – it’s pretty bad – BUT, 4 / 5 – if we’re talking personal taste, art-wise, etc.
Audio: 4.5 / 5 – DVD audio, noticed a few odd audio cuts, maybe a fade could have been used, and so on, but overall it was good (a little too good, needed that crappy VHS mono-esque sound to it!)
Entertainment: 5 / 5 – I liked the style, the music, the overall story, and it was just short enough not to be annoying or get old. I liked it, what can I say. Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea (matter of fact, I can see this being not very popular) – but hey, like RHR, at least you got one person on your side hehe.
Review by boon23 — December 9, 2008 @ 11:42 am
While this is technically a decent edit (video/audio) I personally didn’t care for this version because it removed many of the parts of the film I enjoyed which gives me a very biased view here. (no personal offense to the editor though!)
As far as the VHS style theme, the 4:3 aspect ratio as well as grain/color effects worked well with this particular film but I dont think they accurately gave the feel and appearance of true VHS. Regardless, it made the film look pretty cool and added another layer of sleaze to the movie. However, these same effects did not help the dark/night time scenes though as they are now very hard to see/follow and if I wasnt already familiar w/ the plot I think would have missed a few things during those scenes.
I liked the way the DVD was arranged to play straight through like a VHS tape though w/ the trailers running right into the film and the 80’s “horrorgrind” logo was a nice touch.
I also enjoyed the addition of the old White Zombie tunes to the film and credits and feel they worked well in context w/ the scenes.
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Video: 2/5 but thats intentional so no deduction for that
Audio: 4/5 sounded good, no glaring faults, nice addition of White Zombie tracks.
Entertainment: 2/5 other than the video effects adding a new dimension to the scenes I personally just didnt like the film since it omitted many of the scenes and subplots that made me personally like the original (Fishboy, the girls dad, Otis wearing dad’s face, sheriff Wydell, etc)
Review by elbarto1 — January 10, 2009 @ 1:27 am
This edit just didnt feel vhs style to me. This style made it hard for me to enjoy the movie.
Review by rmania — May 29, 2009 @ 3:13 am
It turns one of the worst movies ever into the worst fanedit I have ever watched. Just sick.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 8:22 pm