Starring: Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, William Forsythe, Ken Foree Directed By: Rob Zombie Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Lions Gate Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 08, 2005 Running Time: 107 minutes Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 2005
Description: From the visionary mind of acclaimed musician Rob Zombie comes Lions Gate Films' THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, the gritty, violent follow-up to Zombie's smash horror hit, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. Written and directed by Zombie, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS reunites the homicidal members of the Firefly family, tracing their bloody flight from an outlaw sheriff hell-bent on revenge... Ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe) and a squad of armed men, the Firefly family wakes up one morning with guns blazing - yet only Otis (Bill Moseley) and his sister, Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), killing whoever happens to stand in their way. But as the body count mounts higher, Sheriff Wydell decides to take the law into his own hands, paving the way for one of the most depraved and terrifying showdowns in cinematic history.
Amazon.com: Homicidal maniacs have a field day in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, an ultraviolent spin-off from Zombie's critically reviled 2003 debut, House of 1,000 Corpses. As Zombie continues to cultivate his name-brand variety of extreme horror and splatter-film homage, he definitely takes his place among connoisseurs of carnage. In the case of The Devil's Rejects, several characters from 1,000 Corpses return for another marathon of mayhem, as the murderous Firefly family (led by Sid Haig as the maniacal "Captain Spaulding") turn their bloody wrath against hostages in a fleabag motel, while the local sheriff (William Forsythe) plots revenge against them for the killing of his brother. Before their inevitable showdown, Zombie has plenty of fun--perhaps a little too much fun--indulging his penchant for sick, sadistic humor and gruesome atrocity. Clearly, Zombie fancies himself as horror's answer to Quentin Tarantino, but he lacks Tarantino's gift for riveting plots and escalating tension. Instead, The Devil's Rejects is just raw, rampant excess from start to finish, paying visual tribute to gruesome classics from the '70s and guaranteed to earn the cult status that Zombie is all too obviously aiming for. He's an unabashed horror buff who's carving a niche in the genre he loves, shamelessly satisfying a small but loyal audience of sicko-phants. --Jeff Shannon
The best thing about this movie is that it's watchable. I know that 'watchable' is hardly a rave review, but what else can be said for a movie with no likeable characters? It is visually interesting. There is a plot. But who are we rooting for? The cop who is emotionally connected goes so far that he becomes as much a villain as the Devil's Rejects, and from the photography and soundtrack, it seems that the director, Rob Zombie, tends to be leaning towards the Devil's Rejects being protangonists. But they're ruthless and evil. This is a perfectly serviceable and incredibly violent movie.
"I am here to do the Devil's work!" First off, I'm not a horror film fan by any stretch of the imagination. Second, even though I love the metal band White Zombie - and have a tremendous amount of respect for Rob Zombie - I am just not a Rob Zombie movie fan. But "Devil's Rejects" was hyped so much I had to see it. So here we go...
I give this movie 3 1/2 out of 5. I just didn't think this movie lived up to the hype. I wasn't terrified at any moment. I didn't think any of the characters were memorable, and I don't have any lines from the movie that I will be quoting. So why am I giving this an above-mediocre review?
First off, the soundtrack is amazing. From the opening "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson, to Terry Reid's "Seed of Memory" playing over the closing credits, the soundtrack sets the tone for the movie with a compilation of 60s and 70s songs that really do fit. As for the movie itself, I didn't like it that much from an entertainment standpoint. What I did like about it was the philosophical tone it took by the end. At the beginning of the movie, you're rooting for Sheriff Wydell (brilliantly played by William Forsythe) to absolutely blow the living daylights out of the psychotic Firefly clan, especially with the revelation that the clan murdered his brother. By the end of the movie, however, you're actually feel for the Firefly clan and hope the sheriff gets his. See, what Rob Zombie was trying to do - and what I think some of the reviewers of this film do not understand - was show how quickly the "good" guys can turn evil. As Sheriff Wydell thirsts for revenge, he slowly becomes as evil as the Firefly clan. In the end, he crosses the line from merely seeking vengeance and justice to becoming as sadistically violent and anti-justice as the criminals he wants to destroy. You really don't want to root for either side, but at the end IMHO you root for the Firefly clan because they are monsters who have no souls, and for that reason you don't expect them to have a concept of right and wrong; but the sheriff does have a sense of right and wrong, and he knowingly chooses the wrong way.
To wrap it up, if you're looking for sheer entertainment, this is an OK movie but not my first choice. If you're looking for something semi-entertaining that'll make you think - and you like horror movies - you'd do well to check this out.
EXCELLENT!! I was so happy to recieve my product quickly and I was very impressed with the packaging my movie was in, I was also satisfied with the price!
TOO BAD ANOTHER MOVIE WITH OTIS,BABY,AND CAPTAIN SPAULDING ISN'T MADE! THIS MOVIE IS EXCITING,AND FULL OF ACTION.THERE'S SOME GORE TO IT-BUT NOTHING LIKE 1,000 CORPSE.OTIS AND BABY ESCAPES WHEN ALOT OF COPS GO TO THEIR HOUSE TO ARREST THEM.A SHOOTING MATCH STARTS TO HAPPEN-THEN THEY ESCAPE.THEY CALL CAPTAIN SPAULDING TO MEET AT A HOTEL FOR FURTHER PLANS.ONCE AT THE HOTEL-OTIS AND BABY START THEIR KILLING SPREE-WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN-THEIR FATHER.BABY HAS THE 2 WOMEN IN A ROOM WITH HER,AND SHE PICKS ON THEM.SHE ENDS UP KILLING ONE OF THEM.IN THE MEANTIME-OTIS HAS THE 2 MEN AT SOME DESERTED PLACE,WHERE HE BEATS ONE MAN TO DEATH.HE THEN TORTURES THE OTHER MAN.HE CUTS OFF HIS FACE AND WEARS IT BACK TO THE HOTEL.HE THEN PUTS THE FACE ON THE MANS WIFE.THE WIFE GOES NUTS THEN.LATER-ALL 3 OF THEM GET CAUGHT AT SOME BAR PARTY.THEY GET THEIR HANDS NAILED TO THEIR CHAIRS.THEY GET STAPLED IN THEIR CHESTS.THEN-TINY SETS THEM FREE WHILE A FIRE IS HAPPENING.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE!BILL MOSELEY(OTIS),SHERI MOON(BABY),AND SID HAIG(CAPTAIN SPAULDING-THE FATHER)DID AN EXCELLENT JOB!THEIR ACTING ABILITIES ARE PERFECT!
Death Valley 69 - Cinema of Transgression Remember those R Kern and Nick Zedd films that Film Threat was raving about in the 80s? anyone? no? okay...
this film is a continuation of a questionable punk rock performance art film style that was big in the 80s. A corny parody of gender roles, rural stereostypes of masculinity, shocking exploitation films and etc.
the trouble with ironic incompetence mixed with parody is that sometimes its worse than the original. maybe im giving zombie too much cred. maybe he had a superficial take on the genre and he truly enjoys this stuff for its own sake. doesnt matter to me. this stuff is drek.
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