Zombie’s Corpses Given The Chop

Rob Zombie, former lead singer of metal band White Zombie, has had his debut movie as writer/director dropped by Universal Pictures. House Of 1000 Corpses was returned by the studio to Zombie, who now owns the rights and will attempt to find a new distributor. The studio was reluctant to release the movie because it is unlikely to get a R rating, and will probably receive the dreaded NC-17 for its violence. Universal chairwoman Stacey Snider said that the film had a "visceral tone and intensity that we did not imagine", and that the higher rating "would unfortunately be at odds with our motion picture releasing strategy". The plot of House Of 1000 Corpses is classic horror fare - two couples get stranded in a remote town populated by homicidal freaks and end up getting horribly hacked up.