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Directed By
Rob Zombie
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Rob Zombie
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Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, Leslie Easterbrook, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Barnes, Dave Sheridan, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo, Dallas Page, Brian Posehn, Elizabeth Daily, Tom Towles, Michael Berryman, P.J. Soles, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Ginger Lynn Allen, Jossara Jinaro, Chris Ellis, Mary Woronov, Daniel Roebuck, Duane Whitaker, Sean Moran, Jordan Orr, Glenn Taranto, Rosario Dawson, Kane Hodder, Tyler Mane, Steve Railsback, John H. Tobin, Robert Trebor
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
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Movie Review by Jarrod 
August 15th, 2007
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'The Devil's Rejects' may be one of the goriest movies I have ever seen, a montage of gruesome violence and depraved barbarity, nightmarish yet quite funny and stylishly exploitative in a way horror movies haven't been for a long time. Rob Zombie absolutely loves this genre, and goes out of his way to shock and revolt, in what proves to be a major improvement over the uneven House of 1000 Corpses, which introduced us to the Firefly clan, a family of evil psychopaths who kill and torture innocent people for the sheer joy of it. The patriarch is Captain Spaulding (Haig), who almost always wears clown make-up, which does little to hide his lack of personal hygiene.
Otis (Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie, Rob's wife) are siblings, both equally deranged, though Otis seems to commit a majority of the actual murders, and he also likes to rape his female victims and rip off the faces of his male ones and wear them as masks, like Ed Gein. That is one of several references to famous American serial killers, the cannibalism and organ storage of Dahmer is hinted at, and the stockpiling of corpses in a crawlspace reminds one of Gacy. William Forsythe is Sheriff Wydell, who raids the Firefly home and pursues them relentlessly once they escape, seeking to avenge his brother. Wydell has a penchant for cruelty and sadism himself, and hopes to unleash it on the Fireflys once he captures them.
He does succeed in catching the matriarch (Leslie Easterbrook). In a particularly clever scene, Wydell is told that "Firefly" and "Captain Spaulding" are aliases borrowed from Marx Brothers movies, the former from Duck Soup and the latter from Animal Crackers, so he calls in a film critic who prides himself on being a Groucho expert to see if he assist in the ongoing investigation. What follows is the critic becoming hysteric as he mentions that Groucho Marx died three days after Elvis Presley, but it was Presley who got all the attention, while Groucho's passing was largely ignored. It is an obsessive point to make, but the references to classic Marx Brothers comedies reflect a knowledge and appreciation of non-horror cinema on Zombie's part. Haig is great, as the vulgar and crude Spaulding, he kept me laughing, and is I think the star attraction.
I also liked Forsythe as the ruthless cop, who turns the tables on the Firefly gang in a satisfying and fitting manner. Moseley and Moon are delightfully insane. Like many others, this movie has piqued my interest in Rob Zombie as a director (well, this, and the "trailer" he did for Grindhouse), and I am eager to see what his future projects are. A man this committed to the horror genre deserves credit for that alone. No PG-13 fluff from this guy. Hardcore all the way.
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 | Lisa
Aug 15, 2007 10:14 AM
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| This movie ripps off many other films mainly texas chainsaw masacre but I couldn't help but enjoy it. |
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