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* TrashyTouristTrap: Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen is a road side gas station that doubles as an eatery and an oddities Museum, complete with an all-rails tour of the nations most depraved serial killers ("Captain Spaulding's Murder Ride"). While the whole establishment is impressive on the surface, Captain Spaulding himself is a MonsterClown with a murderous temper that likes to send his customers in the direction of a [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family of killers]] (the Firefly Family) and the MadScientist Dr. Satan just down the road.
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** Rob Zombie also provides the voice of [[spoiler: Dr. Satan]].

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* ShoutOut: The male members of the family are all named after characters played by Creator/GrouchoMarx; [[Film/ANightAtTheOpera Otis B. Driftwood]], [[Film/DuckSoup Rufus T. Firefly]], and [[Theatre/AnimalCrackers Captain Spaulding]]. Lampshaded in the second film for some reason.

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The male members of the family are all named after characters played by Creator/GrouchoMarx; [[Film/ANightAtTheOpera Otis B. Driftwood]], [[Film/DuckSoup Rufus T. Firefly]], and [[Theatre/AnimalCrackers Captain Spaulding]]. Lampshaded in the second film for some reason.reason.
** One of the tourists is named after renowned film composer Music/JerryGoldsmith.
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* EmbarrassingAnimalSuit: The tourists are given these [[spoiler: before their burial. Jerry's is especially humiliating as his is a donkey, mocking his foolishness.]]

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* EmbarrassingAnimalSuit: The tourists are given these [[spoiler: before their burial. Jerry's is especially humiliating as his is a donkey, [[StubbornMule donkey]], mocking his foolishness.]]
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* EmbarrassingAnimalSuit: The tourists are given these [[spoiler: before their burial. Jerry's is especially humiliating as his is a donkey, mocking his foolishness.]]
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: This film suffered from it from big time. A lot of the gore didn't make it into the movie since it was made around the time of the Columbine massacre and the Lieberman commission, which caused Universal and MGM to balk at it. The 16-32 minutes of gorier footage (supposedly) got lost in the process.

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* {{Bowdlerise}}: This film suffered from it from big time. A lot of the gore didn't make it into the movie since it was made around the time of the Columbine massacre and the Lieberman commission, which caused Universal and MGM to balk at it. The 16-32 minutes of gorier footage (supposedly) got lost in the process.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry. Also, I Ate What is not a character trope.


* IAteWhat: Sometimes mystery meat should just ''stay'' a mystery...
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* ShoutOut: The male members of the family are all named after characters played by [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]; [[Film/ANightAtTheOpera Otis B. Driftwood]], [[Film/DuckSoup Rufus T. Firefly]], and [[Theatre/AnimalCrackers Captain Spaulding]]. Lampshaded in the second film for some reason.

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* ShoutOut: The male members of the family are all named after characters played by [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]; Creator/GrouchoMarx; [[Film/ANightAtTheOpera Otis B. Driftwood]], [[Film/DuckSoup Rufus T. Firefly]], and [[Theatre/AnimalCrackers Captain Spaulding]]. Lampshaded in the second film for some reason.
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%%* BoomHeadshot: How the two robbers and [[spoiler:Deputy Naish]] die.

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%%* * BoomHeadshot: How the two robbers and [[spoiler:Deputy Naish]] die.die, courtesy of Spaulding and Otis respectively.



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%%* * HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Halloween.The events of the film take place during Halloween night, which the Firefly family treats as a religious ceremony.

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''House of 1000 Corpses'' was followed by ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' in 2005, continuing the saga of the Firefly family.

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''House of 1000 Corpses'' was followed by ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' in 2005, 2005 and ''Film/ThreeFromHell'' in 2019, continuing the saga of the Firefly family.


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* VillainBasedFranchise: Started one centered on the Fireflies, with the sequels outright elevating them to {{Villain Protagonist}}s.

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* DangerTakesABackSeat: Pulled off with a ''convertible''.

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* DangerTakesABackSeat: Pulled off with a ''convertible''. Justifiable, as the victim was delirious and close to fainting.



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: More of a straight SlasherMovie than its follow-up.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: More It's much more of a straight SlasherMovie than either of its follow-up.follow-ups, which are closer to crime thrillers.



* ExactWords: At the end, Spaulding tells [[spoiler: Denise]] that he'll "get [her] to the doctor". [[spoiler: Otis then rises from the backseat, and the film ends with Denise being "operated" on by Dr. Satan.]]



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%%* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Firefly family are very close to one another, and work together in all of their crimes.



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%%* * TheVoiceless: TinyTiny never says a word throughout the film.

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Richard Wick, one of the robbers from the film's opening. While his leader, Killer Karl, is suitably menacing, Richard is a total wimp. He's clumsy, he's shaky, his threats are delivered meekly and come across as more confusing than intimidating, he acts rather accommodating to the old man he's supposed to take hostage, and he almost goes into a crying little fit when said old man mocks him with a childish insult jingle.



%%* MuggingTheMonster: The opening scene is the funniest example of this trope.

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%%* * MuggingTheMonster: The opening scene consists of a pair of [[StupidCrooks not-so-bright crooks]] trying to rob Captain Spaulding's shop. Unfortunately for them, Spaulding is far more dangerous than either of them could ever hope to be, and thanks to his hidden assistant, manages to kill them both all the funniest example of this trope.while acting as though he's dealing with some unruly customers.
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* SinisterSouthwest: The film is set in the fictional Texas town of Ruggsville, the home of the murderous Firefly family.
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* IfIWantedXIWouldY: At one point, Captain Spaulding wears a shirt boasting the slogan "If I Wanted To Listen To An Asshole, I'd Fart!" on the back.
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* MenacingMuseum: Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters And Madmen is a two-bit sideshow/gas station/fried chicken joint/complete shithole in the middle of nowhere, run by the eponymous Monster Clown. Spaulding is a perverted old man with a violent streak and a twisted sense of humor, and his exhibits match: cheap mechanical recreations of infamous serial killers.

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* BoomHeadshot: How the two robbers and [[spoiler:Deputy Naish]] die.

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* CowboyCop: Lieutenant George Wydell.

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* ImAHumanitarian: The Fireflies

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* MuggingTheMonster: The opening scene is the funniest example of this trope.

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* DeathlyUnmasking: Very early in the film, Captain Spaulding's roadside museum gets held up by a pair of StupidCrooks in absolutely ridiculous-looking masks. The confrontation ends with Spaulding and his friend annoying the two stick-up artists into removing their masks - before taking them down in short order.
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''House Of 1000 Corpses'' was followed by ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' in 2005, continuing the saga of the Firefly family.

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''House Of of 1000 Corpses'' was followed by ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' in 2005, continuing the saga of the Firefly family.
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* NiceGuy: Bill, unlike his friends, is nothing but polite to Captain Spaulding and the Fireflys. [[spoiler:Not that it saves him, mainly because Baby got pissed off he didn’t reciprocate her affections.]]

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* NiceGuy: Bill, unlike his friends, is nothing but polite to Captain Spaulding and the Fireflys.Fireflies. [[spoiler:Not that it saves him, mainly because Baby got pissed off he didn’t reciprocate her affections.]]



* ThemedAliases: The Firefly Family all use names of characters from Marx Brothers films.

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* ThemedAliases: The Firefly Family family all use names of characters from Marx Brothers films.
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* EvilAlbino: Otis B. Driftwood, though his albinism was written out in the second film when it was decided that it didn't work outdoors.
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* CreatorCameo: Rob Zombie appears in the background briefly as HorrorHost Dr. Wolfenstein's assistant. Rob Zombie intended to play Wolfenstein himself but thought that even with the monster makeup he didn't look much different and that effectively having himself introduce the film would have been too on the nose.


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* HorrorHost: ''Dr. Wolfenstein's Creature Feature Show'' opens the film.

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